Venice Film Festival - The Film Verdict

We Should All Be Futurists

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

Silent film footage is repurposed in We Should All Be Futurists, a deliciously comic reimagining of Marinetti’s man-machine hybrid as a novel – intimate – cure for female hysteria.

Woman Of…

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 8, 2023 | Festivals, Spotlight |

In ‘Woman of…’, the passive heroism of a Polish working class father of two who identifies as a woman is affectingly portrayed in the inimitable style of Malgorzata Szumowska and her co-director and D.P. Michal Englert (‘Never Gonna Snow Again’).

Holly

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 7, 2023 | Featured, Festivals |

A high school girl demonstrates a special gift for empathy and healing others in Belgian director Fien Troch’s mysterious, multi-layered parable about the price of doing good.

Sentimental Stories

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 7, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023, Verdict Shorts |

A largely deserted port plays host to subtle drama unraveling at a glacially pace in Xandra Popescu’s strangely beguiling study in stasis, Sentimental Stories.

Gasoline Rainbow

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 7, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023 |

The freewheeling independence of the open road is given a Gen-Z spin in the Ross Brothers’ kinetic and affecting hybrid documentary, Gasoline Rainbow.

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We Should All Be Futurists

Woman Of…

Holly

Sentimental Stories

Gasoline Rainbow