Venice Film Festival

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed – first-look review

By Leila Latif

Laura Poitras documents US artist Nan Goldin's attempts to expose the Sackler family for their role in the US opioid crisis, but with mixed results.

Athena – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Tensions flair between a group of angry protesters and the police in Romain Gavras' stylish but frustrating action-drama.

Bones and All – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet play a pair of young cannibals on a trans-America road trip in Luca Guadagnino's sweet, squelchy horror romance.

A Couple – first-look review

By Rafa Sales Ross

Frederick Wiseman reflects on the relationship between Leo Tolstoy and his wife Sophia Tolstaya in his first foray into fiction filmmaking.

Blue Jean – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Georgia Oakley delivers an assured debut with her poignant portrait of a lesbian teacher living in Thatcher's Britain.

Bardo – first-look review

By Rafa Sales Ross

Alejandro G Iñárritu grapples with creative fulfilment and the Mexican diaspora in his sprawling, semi-autobiographical surrealist drama.

Tár – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Cate Blanchett is captivating as formidable, world famous classical composer in Todd Fields’ frustrating study of the cult of genius.

White Noise – first-look review

By Hannah Strong

Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig reunite as a couple grappling with their fear of death in Noah Baumbach’s adaptation of Don DeLillo’s novel.

The Venice Film Festival unveils a jam-packed lineup for 2022

By Charles Bramesco

The Lido will be perfectly happy to host the buzzy Netflix films banned from Cannes.

Michelangelo Frammartino – ‘The purpose of art is to explore the ineffable’

By Ben Nicholson

The Italian filmmaker on his slow-cooked wonder, Il Buco, and the artistic joys of discovering something new.

Happening

By David Jenkins

Audrey Diwan’s significant and unflinching adaptation of Annie Erneux’s memoir of a teen abortion is one of the year’s best films.

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The Last Duel – first-look review

By Rafa Sales Ross

Appealing turns from Ben Affleck and Jodie Comer can’t save Ridley Scott’s bloated historical epic.

Old Henry – first-look review

By Steph Green

Potsy Ponciroli’s defiantly old school oater is a modest treat with a barnstorming turn from Tim Blake Nelson.

Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon – first-look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Ana Lily Amirpour returns with a blissed-out, techno-powered riff on the time-honoured superhero movie.

L’Événement – first-look review

By David Jenkins

Audrey Divan’s lacerating and necessary drama follows a young student seeking a clandestine abortion in 1960s France.

Lost Illusions – first-look review

By Adam Solomons

Xavier Giannoli’s pristine adaptation of Balzac’s ‘Illusions Perdues’ is a raunchy romp through post-Revolution France.

Sundown – first-look review

By Sophie Monks Kaufman

Mexican cine-sadist Michel Franco returns with another cravenly bleak drama about life as a pageant of eternal suffering.

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