Contributions from Laura Venning | Little White Lies

Contributor Laura Venning

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100 Nights of Hero review – an affecting fable of queer female liberation

by Laura Venning

Julia Jackman’s adaptation of Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel is a charming, ambitious queer fantasy.

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Review

Train Dreams review – Joel Edgerton has never been better

by Laura Venning

Clint Bentley and co-writer Greg Kwedar evoke the melancholy and grandeur of Terrence Malick in their adaptation of Denis Johnson’s best-selling novella.

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Venice Film Festival

100 Nights of Hero – first-look review

by Laura Venning

Julia Jackman’s adaptation of Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel is a charming, ambitious queer fantasy.
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Review

Little Trouble Girls review – profoundly sensuous cinema

by Laura Venning

Set in a Catholic school all-girls choir, Urška Djukić’s take on queer yearning and repression adopts a less obvious and more interesting approach to the familiar coming-of-age story.

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Review

Materialists review – earnest but underbaked romantic dramedy

by Laura Venning

An elite NYC matchmaker finds herself torn between money and love in Celine Song’s sophomore feature.

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Review

From Hilde, With Love review – too staid to make an impact

by Laura Venning

Andreas Dresen’s Nazi Germany-set biopic on resistance fighters Hilde and Hans Coppi fails to do their story justice.

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Review

The Wedding Banquet review – an unexpected delight

by Laura Venning

Anchored by a talented cast clearly having the time of their lives, Andrew Ahn’s new banquet is a bit of a treat.

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Here – A gorgeous study of fragile human bonds

by Laura Venning

A delicate study of human interaction in a space where the urban and the natural collide from director Bas Devos.

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More Than Ever

by Laura Venning

Vicky Krieps and Gaspard Ulliel play a couple grappling with a life-altering illness in Emily Atef’s sensitive but slight drama.

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Review

She Said

by Laura Venning

Maria Schrader tackles the New York Times investigation that brought down Harvey Weinstein in this well-pitched drama.

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Brian and Charles

by Laura Venning

Jim Archer expands on his 2017 short film about an eccentric Welsh inventor and his robot companion with a feature-length adaptation.

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Murina

by Laura Venning

The return of an old friend causes tension between members of a fishing family in Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović’s assured debut.

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