WorldPingBuongiorno, my good reader. It’s a Venice-heavy Insider this week, as the A-lister festival got underway amid the cameras and gondolas of the canal-strewn city. Back here in the UK it’s Jesse Whittock taking you through the biggest stories of the week.
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WorldPingFrench director Cédric Kahn hits the Venice Film Festival’s this evening with Golden Lion contender A Place To Heal (15/18) set against the backdrop of an adolescent psychiatric ward.
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WorldPingIn 1991, British filmmaker Derek Jarman screened Edward II, his political and wildly inventive adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s classic play, at the Venice Film Festival.
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WorldPingIranian director Mohsen Gharaei, who is at the Venice Film Festival with well-received drama “Falling House,” is set to shoot a new film titled “Centrifugal Force” that will capture “the impossible choices facing a generation of Iranians today,” as t…
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From red carpets for her award-winning directorial debut 'The Lost Daughter' to a current run as jury president, take a look at the actress and filmmaker's fashion choices in Venice over the years.
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Matilda De Angelis ('The Undoing') and Babak Karimi ('A Separation') star in Nicola Sorcinelli's directorial feature debut, premiering at Venice Days, which is "rooted in a lifelong anger at the ways freedom can be withheld, controlled or silenced."…
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WorldPingMay el-Toukhy is in competition at the Venice Film Festival with post-World War Two psychological thriller Woman Unknown as one of just two female directors in the running for the Golden Lion this year.
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