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Venice 2009

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67 articles available in total starting from 10/06/2009. Last article published on 12/09/2009.

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Akin’s exhilarating comedy Soul Kitchen

The vitality of auteur cinema shines through in this film with a culturally-mixed cast, production team and narrative. The surprise of the 2009 Venice competition, Soul Kitchen, by Fatih Akin,...  

11/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition/Germany

Life trembles in Paola Sangiovanni’s stirring documentary

In Venice Days documentary Girls, Life is Trembling, Paola Sangiovanni smartly weaves together archive material and interviews with four women in an examination of the Italian feminist movement of...  

11/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Venice Days/Italy

Comencini and The White Space of waiting

The "white space" is a place where nothing happens, a land of waiting and time of throbbing anguish. This is what 40-year-old Maria (Margherita Buy), who has given birth to a premature baby girl,...  

10/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition | Italy

Ferrara finds echoes of “his” Bronx in Naples

Abel Ferrara’s Naples is the city glimpsed in the accounts of a few female prisoners in Pozzuoli jail, women who have experienced drug dealing, robberies, violence and the degradation of a life...  

10/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Out of competition | Italy

Slovakian Foxes on the Lido

Slovak director Mira Fornay’s debut feature Foxes was presented as part of the Critics’ Week in Venice, marking the first time since 1984 a Slovak feature premiered there. The film tackles...  

10/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Critics’ Week/Slovakia

Documentary captures Vittorio De Sica’s indomitable spirit

One of Italy’s most renowned, esteemed and influential directors, Vittorio De Sica, is the subject of the latest documentary by Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri, Vittorio D.. As expected, the film...  

10/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Venice Days/Italy

Placido and The Big Dream of ‘68

After years working in TV drama, Pietro Valsecchi and Camilla Nesbitt return to cinema with Michele Placido, having previously produced his debut film Pummarò and the successive Ordinary Hero. The...  

09/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Competition | Italy

Van Warmerdam’s black comedy Emma Blank adaptation of his play

Alex van Warmerdam’s gleefully perverse The Last Days of Emma Blank surprised and won over audiences at its international premiere in Venice Days today. A renaissance man, van Warmerdam not only...  

09/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Venice Days/Netherlands

Villalobos: Portrait of an artist in strobe lights

German documentary Villalobos, a portrait of Chilean-German DJ Ricardo Villalobos, premiered in the Horizons section at the Venice Film Festival today. The 110-minute portrait of the king of...  

09/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Horizons/Germany

A Horde of zombies create buzz on Lido

The world premiere of the first French horror film, La Horde, was, in the best tradition of the genre, received with cheers and applause, both during and after its world premiere in Venice Days....  

09/09/2009 | Venice 2009 | Venice Days/France

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