Festivals

All those who follow the special artistic relationship between director Joanna Hogg and actress Tilda Swinton looked forward to their new film, The Eternal Daughter, which was selected for the main competition of the 79thth Venice Film Festival. Friends for more than 50 years, Hogg and Swinton made their first film together three years ago.

Radicalization is not exclusively the province of lonely, disaffected young men. Director Benedetta Argentieri’s challenging new documentary The Matchmaker, which just enjoyed its world premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, provides compelling evidence of this, while also raising hard-to-answer questions about blurred lines, in the social media era, between mere personal self-destruction and a greater culpability when one promulgates and incites violence.

So-called “alternate history” has a long tradition, especially within literature. Speculating about what would have happened had various wars turned out differently is a particularly rich intellectual parlor game.

When his Banshees of Inisherin co-star Brendan Gleeson reminds him that it has been fourteen years since they last worked together for Martin McDonagh in the Golden Globe-winning In Bruges, Colin Farrell takes in the moment. “It's mad.

The 1985 “Trial of the Juntas” against the bloody military dictatorship in Argentina in the ’70s and ’80s that paved the way to democracy after years of brutal repression is beautifully told in Santiago Miter’s Argentina, 1985. The film, in competition for the Leone d’Oro at the 79th Venice Film Festival, was received by the audience with a seven-minute standing ovation.

A twelve-minute standing ovation saluted Emanuele Crialese's L'immensità [The Immensity] at the Venice Film Festival, where it was screened in the main competition lineup. The film, starring Golden Globe nominee Penélope Cruz, was highly awaited by cinephiles.

This year, Paul Schrader already knows he is a winner at the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival. Not that he is clairvoyant and has foreseen the jury’s decision about his latest directorial effort (Master Gardener is actually premiering out of competition), but rather, he has just received the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award from the world’s oldest film festival.

Lars von Trier is one of the most celebrated filmmakers of Denmark, best known for his provocative stylistic cinematic experiments, and headlong dives into controversial subject matter. In his home country, Breaking the Waves, Dancer in the Dark, and Dogville director has received seven Bodil Awards (given by Danish critics) and 15 Robert Awards (the top Danish industry prize).