‘And Their Children After Them’ Review: Small-Town French Youth Adrift

Paul Kircher and Angélina Woreth in 'And Their Children After Them.'

For those who’ve hung out in cities within the far-flung provinces of any variety of European international locations — significantly ones through which mills that provided the financial lifeblood of working-class communities have closed, leaving inhabitants adrift with out a raft — likelihood is you’ll acknowledge the fictional Northeastern French setting of And Their Kids … Read more

A Coming-of-Age Drama About Older Adulthood

A Coming-of-Age Drama About Older Adulthood

Most coming-of-age tales deal within the vagaries of adolescence — that complicated time outlined by dramatic confrontations with unfamiliar feeling. However Sarah Friedland’s affecting debut Acquainted Contact, remixing the style, considers the emotional valence of older maturity. The movie, which premiered on the Venice Movie Pageant within the Orizzonti part, follows Ruth Goldman, an inquisitive … Read more

Armani Hosts Venice Fest Party With Richard Gere, Cate Blanchett

Armani Hosts Venice Fest Party With Richard Gere, Cate Blanchett

That is the seventh yr that Armani has been the official magnificence sponsor of the Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant, getting actresses from Cate Blanchett to Sydney Sweeney crimson carpet prepared. The competition kicked off on Aug. 28 and can proceed till Sept. 7, with stars together with Blanchett, Clara Galle, Kaya Scodelario and Ncuti Gatwa … Read more

AI, Netflix in Focus for Venice Head Alberto Barbera, Tarak Ben Ammar

THR Roma roundtable

The 2024 Venice Movie Competition is an effective time for a dialogue of scorching leisure trade matters between sector gamers and consultants with THR Roma. So, the Venice pageant’s inventive director Alberto Barbera, Eagle Footage proprietor Tarak Ben Ammar and Fortunate Pink founder Andrea Occhipinti sat down with me to debate the rise of synthetic … Read more

Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar Drama

The Room Next Door

No male filmmaker has extra persistently understood feminine characters and the actresses enjoying them than Pedro Almodóvar, a advantage that rescues the treasured director’s first English-language function from the reams of prose-style dialogue in its establishing scenes. Adapting Sigrid Nunez’s 2020 novel What Are You Going Via, during which a terminally ailing lady asks an … Read more

Maura Delpero’s Italian World War II Drama

'Vermiglio'

World Struggle II is raging throughout Europe, however there’s no gunfire within the mountainous village of Vermiglio. There, life goes on a lot because it has for lots of of years, albeit with some delicate changes, in Italian writer-director Maura Delpero’s thought-about if standard second characteristic. Impressed partially by the director’s circle of relatives historical … Read more

Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore Embrace Life and Death in Venice

Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore Embrace Life and Death in Venice

Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore might have spoken endlessly, it appears, on the genius of Pedro Almodóvar. The Spaniard, who has created movies corresponding to Girl on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mom, and Volver, will see the world premiere of his first-ever English language function on the 81st Venice Movie … Read more

‘Wolfs’ Stars Brad Pitt, George Clooney Touch Down at Venice

(L-R) Brad Pitt and George Clooney at the 2024 Venice Film Festival premiere of 'Wolfs.'

The Lido is in a frenzy for Wolfs. Backed by the star energy of its veteran A-list stars, Brad Pitt and George Clooney, the Jon Watts-directed movie from Apple and Sony had a triumphant world premiere on the Venice Movie Competition late Sunday night time on the Lido. Expectedly, the crush of followers and media … Read more

World War I Doctor Drama Premieres at Venice

Alessandro Borghi in 'Battleground.'

The struggle is way away, however ever so shut, in Battleground (Campo di Battaglia), director Gianni Amelio’s sober research of medical doctors treating wounded troopers in Italy as World Battle I involves an in depth. Lowering the battle to a chamber piece the place a trio of former medical college students conflict over the ethical … Read more

Brad Pitt & George Clooney in Light, Cunning Actioner

Wolf Men Brad Pitt and George Clooney star as rival fixers who are forced to work together

Can film stars keep cool ceaselessly? That appears to be the massive existential query underscoring the intelligent, impeccably directed if quite flimsy motion comedy Wolfs, which reunites Brad Pitt and George Clooney, who most memorably chummed it up collectively within the Ocean’s trilogy. Again then they had been two of the most important actors on … Read more