[Venice Review] From Afar

Proving yet again that festival juries don’t read the trades or pay attention to chatter, the Golden Lion of the 72nd Venice Film Festival was presented to the ...

Juliette Binoche Talks Taking Risks, Commonality of Great Directors, and Editing Experience

"When you act, you don’t want to protect yourself. There’s no escaping. "...

‘The Clan’ Director Pablo Trapero on the Film’s Relevance for Argentina, Biggest Inspirations, and More

"For me, the real relationship with a movie starts when it finishes."...

‘The Wait’ Director Piero Messina Discusses Bringing Out Juliette Binoche’s Character, Numerous Takes, and More

"It took a while, it was a slow process, but the character gradually took shape through repetition."...

‘The Clan’ Leads Discuss the Emotional Stress of Playing Villains, Political Context, and More

"The director and I worked a lot to make this character very different from what I am, so people don’t even recognize me on screen."...

[Venice Review] Afternoon

It’s always been easier to review Tsai Ming-liang’s films than to make sense of them. Characterized by an often impenetrable language of silence and immobility,...

[Venice Review] A Bigger Splash

Despite a loose script that justifies little, Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s follow-up feature to his glorious melodrama I Am Love is a sweaty, kinetic, dan...

[Venice Review] The Clan

Who says there’s no place for meaty, gritty thrillers at A-list film festivals? Argentinian director Pablo Trapero’s El Clan (The Clan) is exactly the kind of c...

[Venice Review] The Danish Girl

As far as directors go, it doesn’t get much more middle-of-the-road than Tom Hooper. His films tend to feature clear-cut, identifiable conflicts sketched out in...

[Venice Review] The Wait

Seeing that the film starts in the middle of a memorial service, it doesn’t qualify as a spoiler to reveal that the unseen hero of L’attesa (The Wait) - the sub...