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15 articles available in total starting from 05/07/2010. Last article published on 10/09/2010.

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Tykwer’s magic number Three

Shown in competition at the Mostra, Three is Tom Tykwer’s take on the “ménage à trois”, a favourite theme in literature and film. The director of Run Lola Run (in competition at Venice in 1998)...  

10/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | Germany

Richard J. Lewis presents Barney’s Version

Paul Giamatti (Sideways, Cinderella Man) and Dustin Hoffman are a perfect pair, together with director Richard J. Lewis, to rise to the challenge of bringing Mordecai Richler’s literary...  

10/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | Canada - Italy

Sex obsession in Attenberg

Young Marina (Ariane Labed) doesn’t really like the human species: she prefers the chimpanzees in TV documentaries by Sir Richard Attenborough, misspelled as Attenberg in the title of Athina...  

10/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition/Greece

Costanzo’s horror film of feelings

Oops, wrong theatre. This must be a retrospective of the 1970s films of thriller master Dario Argento. No, this really is it, Saverio Costanzo’s highly-anticipated The Solitude of Prime Numbers,...  

09/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | Italy

Violence of the gaze in Kechiche’s Black Venus

Saartjie Baartman, an icon for many South Africans, leaves Cape Town in 1810 for London, along with her master, the merchant Pieter Caezar, who intends to put her on show in a travelling fair....  

08/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | France

De la Iglesia explores horror and passion in A Sad Trumpet Ballad

Spanish master of the grotesque Alex de la Iglesia exorcises the ghosts of the Spanish Civil War with A Sad Trumpet Ballad, in competition at the Venice Film Festival. Fiction and historical...  

08/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition/Spain

Martone’s We Believed looks at the birth of a nation

The much-anticipated third Italian film in competition at the Mostra, Mario Martone’s We Believed is a 204-minute-long journey into nineteenth-century Italian history through the destinies of...  

07/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | Italy

Gallo is hunted man in Essential Killing

There is not a moment of respite for viewers in Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski’s 83-minute-long political thriller Essential Killing, full of blood and wild nature. Presented in competition at...  

06/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | Poland

Mazzacurati’s The Passion takes ironic look at filmmaking

Gianni Dubois, played by tragicomic looking Silvio Orlando, is a fifty-something director , a once-promising auteur who hasn’t managed to make a film for the last five years. His producer gets him...  

04/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | Italy

Deneuve gets political in Potiche

While the photo of Catherine Deneuve in a red 1970s Adidas tracksuit has already been seen across the world, journalists at the Mostra enjoyed moments of good humour at the screening of Potiche, a...  

04/09/2010 | Venice 2010 | Competition | France

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