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Venice Film Festival

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Festivals

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.
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Festivals

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.
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Festivals

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.
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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.
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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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Last Night in Soho – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Edgar Wright’s live­ly Lon­don-set gial­lo, star­ring Anya Tay­lor-Joy and Thomasin McKen­zie, fails to deliv­er on its fas­ci­nat­ing premise.
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Festivals

Official Competition – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Big laughs and sear­ing insights into the artis­tic process pow­er this high­ly enjoy­able film world satire.
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Il Buco – first-look review

by David Jenkins

This unique jour­ney to the cen­tre of the earth is a stun­ning high­light of the 2021 Venice Film Festival.
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Festivals

True Things – first-look review

by Steph Green

Har­ry Wootliff’s fol­low up to 2018’s Only You focus­es on a rela­tion­ship so tox­ic it’s almost radioactive.
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Festivals

The Lost Daughter – first-look review

by Sophie Monks Kaufman

Olivia Col­man dis­plays her dark side in Mag­gie Gyl­len­haal’s sun-bleached psy­chodra­ma about moth­er­hood in crisis.