Venice Film Festival - The Film Verdict

Venice 2023: The Verdict

Posted by TFV Staff | Sep 10, 2023 | Festivals, Featured, The Festival Verdict, VENICE 2023 |

The best thing about the 80th Mostra del Cinema was a stand-out film that almost all the critics were able to get behind and support wholeheartedly – and it won the Golden Lion for Best Film.

Venice 2023: The Awards

Posted by TFV Staff | Sep 10, 2023 | Featured, Festivals |

The Awards: Yorgos Lanthimos took home the Golden Lion with his wildly inventive feminist portrait ‘Poor Things’, the most popular film in the festival.

Society of the Snow

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 9, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2024 |

‘Society of the Snow’, the edge-of-seat disaster movie that closes the 80th Venice Film Festival, directed by J.A. Bayona of ‘The Impossible’ fame, recreates the 1972 air crash of a Uruguayan flight in the Andes in great but respectful detail.

Memory

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 9, 2023 | Festivals, Toronto 2023, VENICE 2023 |

Mexican director Michel Franco follows up his unsettling but well-liked Tim Roth thriller ‘Sundown’ with ‘Memory’, a paint-by-numbers romance/family drama starring Jessica Chastain as an emotionally damaged social worker in Brooklyn

Wander to Wonder

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 8, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023, Verdict Shorts |

The miniature beings that starred in an 80s television show slowly unravel in Wander to Wonder, a surreal animation that riffs on an enchanting children’s story trope.

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Venice 2023: The Verdict

Venice 2023: The Awards

Society of the Snow

Memory

Wander to Wonder