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Possible Love

Lee Chang-dong returns to Venice at last, after winning the festival's Silver Lion for Best Director in 2002…

By Selina Sondermann
Venice

Primetime

Moby Dick is considered one of the great epics where a single concrete image – that of a…

By Selina Sondermann
Venice

Mr Nelson, Did You Kill People?

Japanese filmmaker Shinya Tsukamoto takes on the roles of writer, director, cinematographer and editor in his adaptation of…

By Selina Sondermann
Venice

It Will Happen Tonight

Matteo is about to become a father when his mother intervenes and urges the young Oslo-based couple to…

By Selina Sondermann
Venice

A Place to Heal

French director Cédric Kahn is best known for thrillers like Roberto Succo or courtroom drama The Goldman Case.…

By Selina Sondermann
Venice

Bucking Fastard

Bucking Fastard tells the story of sisters (not twins!) Jean and Joan Holbrooke, who speak in unison and…

By Selina Sondermann
Venice

Wild Horse Nine

Martin McDonagh’s latest film is titled Wild Horse Nine, possibly because the more apt They Shoot Horses, Don’t…

By Selina Sondermann
Venice

Queer Edward II

In 1991, filmmaker Derek Jarman shot a radical film adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s play Edward II, connecting its…

By Selina Sondermann
Venice

Ink

The Venice Film Festival may have made fewer headlines this year for a star-studded lineup than for entertaining…

By Selina Sondermann