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With Gustave Kervern’s Voilà, c’est fini and Guillaume Nicloux’s Garde du corps set for the near future, Suzanne Lindon has been taking on some acting gigs, but we’re more excited about her return behind the camera. Cineuropa reports that Pierfrancesco...

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?: Refn Returns with Vacuous Vengeance After disappearing into television for the past decade, Nicolas Winding Refn once again rears into the cinema with Her Private Hell, which unfortunately is an insufferable, nonsensical exercise...

I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK: Koreeda Explores Cruise Control with AI Somehow, despite being set in the ‘not too distant future,’ Hirokzau Kore-eda’s twee take on robotic children in Sheep in the Box manages to seem like an anachronistic...

No Man is an Island: Aris Explores Childhood, Couplehood and Parenthood with Flip Book Speeds Lebanese filmmaker Cyril Aris utilizes the three distinct yet related measurements of time elapsed, time apart, and time away to craft an ode to the invisible, happy-chance forces that...

The Killing of a Sacred Dogtooth: Ainouz Paints with Contempt Karim Aïnouz doesn’t so much eat the rich as he does regurgitate them in his latest feature, Rosebush Pruning, a hyper stylized rehash of Marco Bellocchio’s breakout classic, Fists in...

With a bit of rebranding (now sounds like a tennis ATP tour event) the Venice Open section which houses the non comp non-fiction films, also has a firm eleven fiction films with a lot of big name auteurs in not...

This is not hyperbole. The Venice Film Festival have unveiled perhaps the most stacked Out-of-Competition Non-Fiction line-up in decades. It’s a who’s who list of some of the best working docu filmmakers in the business – they’re all shoring up...

Cannes have the Un Certain Regard section, and Venice has the Orizzonti. While we do find some fresh new voices from the nineteen films selected we also find fresh new works from the likes of India’s Anuparna Roy, Greece’s Jacqueline...

As we had mentioned in our predictions piece over the weekend, the competition skews heavily dude-centric this year, with May El-Toukhy‘s Woman Unknown being the only female-directed entry among twenty films, while acquisition prospects are boosted by high-profile titles such...

Atomic Age and Spirit of Ecstasy‘s Héléna Klotz is getting ready to launch production on her third feature film. Cineuropa reports that French filmmaker is moving into production next month on Celles qui parlaient tout le temps (aka The Girls...