Venice Film Festival - The Film Verdict

Hit Man

Posted by Alonso Duralde | Sep 5, 2023 | VENICE 2023, Spotlight, Toronto 2023 |

Richard Linklater’s farce about a phony hired killer is charming and unpredictable, but it would benefit from dropping the “based on a true story” angle.

Enea

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 5, 2023 | Festivals, Spotlight, VENICE 2023 |

A withering take-down of Rome’s vapid middle class, Pietro Castellitto’s (‘The Predators’) exuberant second feature ‘Enea’ is an amusing, fast-paced game that winks at gangster movies and bows in Venice competition.

Sea Salt

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 5, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023, Verdict Shorts |

The inconsistencies of adolescence are the challenges of burgeoning womanhood are central to Leila Basma’s knotty and intoxicating coming-of-age short, Sea Salt.

In the Shadow of the Cypress

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 5, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023, Verdict Shorts |

Unspoken traumas are made manifest in Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi’s beautifully drawn and profoundly moving animated allegory, In the Shadow of the Cypress.

Coup de Chance

Posted by Deborah Young | Sep 4, 2023 | Festivals, Featured, VENICE 2023 |

Infidelity is followed by murder in glamorous Paris in Woody Allen’s smooth-as-silk 50th film ‘Coup de Chance,’ shot entirely in French.

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Hit Man

Enea

Sea Salt

In the Shadow of the Cypress

Coup de Chance