Venice Film Festival 2022 - The Film Verdict

The Last Queen

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 4, 2022 | Festivals, VENICE 2022 |

An old-fashioned historical epic on steroids in which a bloodthirsty corsair makes an alliance with the King of Algiers but then determines to conquer the ruler’s headstrong wife.

Nezouh

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 4, 2022 | Festivals, VENICE 2022 |

Touches of magical realism aren’t enough to hold together this well-meaning yet clumsy story of an adolescent girl in war-torn Damascus whose father refuses to accept that changed circumstances make his pose as the family guardian irrelevant.

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 3, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, VENICE 2022 |

Artist Nan Goldin’s activism in holding the Sackler family accountable for the opioid crisis is seen as a natural extension of her rebellious, freely lived and proudly messy life in Laura Poitras’ well-structured, powerful documentary.

Bobi Wine: Ghetto President

Posted by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Sep 2, 2022 | Festivals, VENICE 2022 |

Whatever its structural defects, Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp’s documentary is an important document of political tyranny in this decade.

Bones and All

Posted by Jay Weissberg | Sep 2, 2022 | Festivals, Spotlight, VENICE 2022 |

Luca Guadagnino again proves his understanding of the yearning for a fellow soul that defines all feelings of difference in this beautifully played road trip movie which uses cannibalism as metaphor.

Tag: Venice Film Festival 2022

The Last Queen

Nezouh

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Bobi Wine: Ghetto President

Bones and All