WorldPingMia Wasikowska fills out the screen in Kuba Dorabialski’s “Agata the Writer.” Metaphorically and figuratively, as one especially arresting sequence shows her in close-up looking directly at the audience and recounting the rest of the story.
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Mia Wasikowska Fills Out the Screen As ‘Agata the Writer’ in Kuba Dorabialski’s Venice Drama: ‘It’s Our Responsibility to Understand Each Other’
Woman Unknown wins Venice film festival as NAZA takes special jury prize
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WorldPingA Danish WWII drama about a woman trying to hide a wartime relationship with a Nazi was awared top prize on Saturday at The Venice Film Festival, while Gaza documentary NAZA snagged the special jury prize.
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WorldPingVenice Golden Lion winner May El-Toukhy is not surprised that some pundits considered her win a surprise this evening. “It doesn’t surprise me that some people would say ‘Oh, did she get it?
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WorldPingMay el-Toukhy becomes eighth female director to take Golden Lion as Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love and Guardian-produced exposé of Israel’s Gaza killings also awarded Bold and bravura choices as Venice celebrates A Woman Unknown, Possible Love – and…
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WorldPingBelarusian director Andrei Kutsila’s “Letters from the Silenced Country,” a portrayal of contemporary Belarus seen through the lives of five individuals whose existence has been upended by state violence and political repression, is the winner of The…
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WorldPingMaggie Gyllenhaal kicked off her term as Venice jury president by calling out the lack of women filmmakers in the running for the prestigious Golden Lion.
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WorldPingDouglas Sirk , the master of so many great female-driven melodramas of the 50’s (Imitation Of Life, Magnificent Obsession) might have been jealous of Cody Fern’s directorial debut that just had its World Premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.
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