David Pablos’ riveting Mexican film En El Camino, winner of the Queer Lion, presents a fresh take on the queer road trip movie.
En el camino Updates the Queer Road Trip Playbook
Venice
The last of the “big three” European film festivals of the year, Venice marks the gliterring kickstart of the Oscar season.
Made in EU. Exploitation in the Peripheries.
Stephan Komanderev uses the coronavirus pandemic to explore the horrors of labour exploitation in one of Europe’s poorest regions.
Empty Incel Nonsense
Evi Kalogiropoulou’s deeply disappointing Gorgonà leans so heavily into fascist aesthetics it starts to resemble the very thing it criticises.
Mother Is A Disappointing and Inconsequential Portrait of Mother Teresa
Noomi Rapace is highly forbidding as the Saint of the Peripheries in Mitevska’s Mother Teresa biopic, yet this seven-day narrative ends up disappointing.
Otec Brutally Shows How the Mind Can Rewrite Reality
A father makes a devastating mistake in Tereza Nvotová’s Otec, bleak and hellish depiction of every parent’s worst nightmare.
“There’s all sorts of shit around a movie set. You don’t pay attention to all of it.” — Alex Ross Perry and Robert Greene on Pavements
Alex Ross Perry and Robert Greene discuss capturing the spirit of the 90s’ most ironic indie band by splicing together musical, biopic and exhibition.
Chasing Pavements
Pavements is a biopic, musical and exhibition, with Alex Ross Perry applying the idiosyncratic spirit of the 90s band to novel forms of cinematic expression.
Familiar Touch Depicts Dementia with Disarming Discernment
Sarah Friedland’s potent debut takes time and care to depict the ins and outs of living with dementia, to powerful results. Live from Venice Film Festival.
Cloud Finds the Apocalypse in E-Commerce
Cloud, the latest from Kiyoshi Kurosawa, shows how fears about the internet have drastically evolved since Pulse (2001). Live from Venice.
Venice 2024: Sunny Weather. Gloomy Cinema.
Splendour on the Lido comes into contrast with gloomy visions of the end of the world and downbeat epics across the Venice competition and Orizzonte section.