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In the Hand of Dante

It’s 2025, and it seems that film festivals just got a new golden rule – every major event…

By Jan Tracz
Venice

The Stranger

Based on Albert Camus’s seminal novella, translated into The Stranger (published in 1942), L'Étranger feels like a perfect…

By Jan Tracz
Venice

Portobello

Premiering at Venice before its HBO Max release, Marco Bellocchio’s Portobello chronicles the dramatic downfall of 1980s TV…

By Christina Yang
Venice

Orfeo

Orfeo (Luca Vergoni) is playing piano at the club he performs at when he sees Eura (Giulia Maenza)…

By Andrew Murray
Venice

Vanilla

In 1980s Mexico, eight-year-old Roberta (Aurora Dávila) lives in a house with six other family members, all of…

By Andrew Murray
Venice

Orphan

In Orphan, László Nemes fixes his unsparing gaze on 1957 Budapest, a city still raw from the crushed…

By Christina Yang
Venice

Il Maestro

Andrea Di Stefano’s Il Maestro turns the conventions of the sports film on its head. Raul Gatti (Pierfrancesco…

By Christina Yang
Venice

Kim Novak’s Vertigo

Premiering in Venice as she is honoured with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Alexandre O Philippe’s Kim…

By Christina Yang
Venice

Milk Teeth

Set in Romania in 1989, at the tail-end of Nicolae Ceaușescu’s dictatorship, Milk Teeth begins with Maria (Emma…

By Andrew Murray