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Love (Kjærlighet) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
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Ain’t Nothin’ But Sex Misspelled: Haugerud Continues Quiet, Earnest Talking Cure Trilogy Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud continues his sexuality-themed film trilogy (Sex/Dreams/Love) in Love, following the first installment, Sex, which premiered earlier this year at the Berlin International Film...
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Hoard | Review
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M is for the Many Things You Gave Me: Grief Becomes the Remedy in Carmoon’s Debut “Time heals all old pain, while it creates new ones,” states a Hebrew proverb, implying the distance from grief may court closure while carving...
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Youth (Homecoming) | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
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Last Train to Zhili: Bing Brings Youth Cycle to Circular Close Wang Bing completes his ‘Youth’ trilogy with finale Youth (Homecoming), which features the most forgiving running time of the three segments at only two and a half hours. The...
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice | 2024 Venice Film Festival Review
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Juice Cocktail: Burton Revamps His First Demon There’s no way to reproduce the imaginative awe of Tim Burton’s 1988 idiosyncratic goth YA classic Beetlejuice. Or, for that matter, any of Burton’s exceptionally weird but trailblazing offerings through the 1980s and...
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2024 Venice Film Festival: Eric Lavallée’s Top 5 Most Anticipated!
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It’s not often the case, but on paper, the 2024 edition of the Venice Film Festival appears poised to outshine the Cannes Film Festival with its lineup of potential high-grade film items. Ahead of the 81st edition’s kickoff on Wednesday,...
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Exclusive Clip: Invalid Expire Dates in Aude Léa Rapin’s ‘Planet B’
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After splashing in the Critics’ Week section on the Croisette with Heroes Don’t Die (2019), Aude Léa Rapin returns to another Critics’ Week section this time on the Lido with her sophomore feature, Planète B (aka Planet B.) Starring Adèle...
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Exclusive Trailer: Anna & Cristi Are Cost-effective in Ciro De Caro’s ‘Taxi Monamour’
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Known for his debut feature Spaghetti Story (2013), Italian filmmaker Ciro De Caro makes a return visit to the Giornate degli Autori programme this year with Taxi Monamour. After having premiered Giulia back in 2021, this fourth feature film also...
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FYC: Top 10 Cannes Storylines That Will Shape The Awards Race
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With the Venice Film Festival set to break bread this week we thought it was time to look back at the legit contenders for film awardage that will pounce into the fall season and beyond. We decided to cement our...
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Extramarital Excitement: Dakota Johnson & Adria Arjona Join Michael Angelo Covino’s ‘Splitsville’
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Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin will continue to examine relationship woes, lows and highs with a new sophomore feature film packaged with thesps Dakota Johnson and Adria Arjona with the backing of the NEON folks. Deadline reports that Michael...
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New Order: Noomi Rapace Not Waiting for Permission in Teona Strugar Mitevska’s ‘Mother’
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Noomi Rapace is set to have big shoes to fill or perhaps a white sari with blue stripes as she will take on a one-week portrait as Mother Teresa before she became the Mother Teresa we all know. Variety reported...
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