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Venice Film Festival · 2015

Venice Film Festival 2015

Venice Days

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17 films · 1 review

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Arianna

Arianna is 19 but still not had her first period, a trip to her parents' country house sees long-forgotten memories begin to emerge.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2015; Director: Carlo Lavagna; Writer: Carlo Salsa, Carlo Lavagna, Chiara Barzini; Stars: Ondina Quadri, Massimo Popolizio, Valentina Carnelutti, Corrado Sassi, Blu Yoshimi, Lidia Vitale, Eduardo Valdarnini)

As I Open My Eyes (À peine j'ouvre les yeux)

Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, 18 years old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor. But she doesn't have the same idea.

(Country: France, Belgium, Tunisia; Year: 2015; Director: Leyla Bouzid; Writer: Leyla Bouzid, Marie-Sophie Chambon; Stars: Baya Medhaffer, Ghalia Benali)

Bangland

A journey into the heart of Bangland, a city in a dystopian America now under the presidency of Steven Spielberg, who has declared war on the African nation Mahaba, thereby launching his own war on terror, the gist being that anyone who isn't white is a potential terrorist.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2015; Director: Lorenzo Berghella)

Early Winter

A janitor who has sacrificed everything for his family, begins to suspect his wife is being unfaithful.

(Country: Canada, Australia; Year: 2015; Director: Michael Rowe; Writer: Michael Rowe; Stars: Suzanne Clément, Paul Doucet, Marc Primeau, Max Laferriere, Michael Riendeau, Alexandre Marine, Ambrosio De Luca)

First Light (La prima luce)

A father gets caught in a cross-continental tug-of-love fight.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2015; Director: Vincenzo Marra; Writer: Angelo Carbone, Vincenzo Marra; Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Luis Gnecco, Alejandro Goic, Daniela Ramírez, Gianni Pezzolla)

Il Paese Dove Gli Alberi Volano - Eugenio Barba E I Giorni dell'Odin

Portrait of Eugenio Barba, who founded the experimental theater company Odin Teatret in Scandinavia.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2015; Director: Davide Barletti, Jacopo Quadri)

Island City

Three stories set in Mumbai.

(Country: India; Year: 2015; Director: Ruchika Oberoi; Writer: Ruchika Oberoi; Stars: Vinay Pathak, Amruta Subhash, Tanishta Chatterjee)

Klezmer

A trip to the forest for a group in Occupied Poland will change their lives.

(Country: Poland; Year: 2015; Director: Piotr Chrzan; Writer: Piotr Chrzan; Stars: Lesław Zurek, Dorota Kuduk)

Lolo

On holiday in the south of France, chic Parisian sophisticate Violette meets life-loving IT geek Jean-René... there's a romantic spark but will it survive their radically different backgrounds?

(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Julie Delpy; Writer: Julie Delpy, Eugénie Grandval; Stars: Julie Delpy, Dany Boon, Vincent Lacoste, Karin Viard, Xavier Alcan, Georges Corraface, Julie Tristant, Christophe Vandevelde)

Long Live The Bride (Viva la sposa)

Nicola spends his time drinking and pretending that he's on the wagon. This is his story, and the story of all the other characters he meets by fate.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2015; Director: Ascanio Celestini; Writer: Ascanio Celestini; Stars: Alba Rohrwacher, Corrado Invernizzi, Ascanio Celestini, Salvatore Striano, Mario Sgueglia, Pietro Faiella)

Mediterranea

Drama tracking African migrants in Italy.

(Country: Germany, US, UK, France, Italy; Year: 2015; Director: Jonas Carpignano; Writer: Jonas Carpignano; Stars: Koudous Seihon, Alassane Sy, Joy Odundia, Vincenzina Siciliano, Sinka Bourehima, Mimma Papasergio, Koffi Appiah, Annalisa Spirli, Pomodoro, Susannah Amato, Pio Amato, Aisha, Adam Gnegne, Ernest Zire, Mary Elizabeth Innocence)

The Memory Of Water (La memoria del agua)

A couple's relationship is tested after a tragic accident.

(Country: Chile; Year: 2015; Director: Matías Bize; Writer: Matías Bize; Stars: Elena Anaya, Néstor Cantillana, Pablo Cerda, Alba Flores, Sergio Hernández, Silvia Marty, Benjamín Vicuña, Antonia Zegers)

Milano 2015

An anthology film that probes the soul of this city in a year

(Year: 2015; Director: Elio, Roberto Bolle, Silvio Soldini, Walter Veltroni, Cristiana Capotondi, Giorgio Diritti)

MA

Review preview for MA

Director Celia Rowlson-Hall, a dancer and choreographer, is able to make visible through movement what harms the soul.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
In this modern-day vision of Mother Mary’s pilgrimage, a woman crosses the American Southwest, deconstructing the world around her.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Celia Rowlson-Hall; Writer: Celia Rowlson-Hall; Stars: Celia Rowlson-Hall, Andrew Pastides, Amy Seimetz, Jason Kittelberger, Neal Bledsoe, Matt Lauria, Kentucker Audley, Peter Vack, William Connell, George McArthur, Gabrielle Vance, Bobbi Jene Smith, Emma Ruth Quigley)

Full review See: Celia Rowlson-Hall, Ian Bloom and Iva Radivojevic in conversation on MA , A conversation with Frédéric Boyer about the Tribeca Film Festival , Interview with Celia Rowlson-Hall about MA and Derek Lam's 10 Crosby Fragrance And Film , Derek Lam and Henry Joost on 10 Crosby Fragrance And Film

Retribution (El desconocido)

A bank executive is told a bomb will go off in his car, unless he can come up with a whole lot of cash.

(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2015; Director: Dani de la Torre; Writer: Alberto Marini; Stars: Luis Tosar, Goya Toledo, Javier Gutiérrez, Pedro Alonso, Elvira Mínguez, Fernando Cayo, Luis Zahera, César Díaz Capilla, Xosé Barato, Carolina Vázquez, Daniel Currás, Ricardo de Barreiro, Camila Bossa, Manuel Menárguez, Paula del Río)

Underground Fragrance

A young migrant worker is temporarily blinded and meets another migrant in this drama exploring the "Chinese dream".

(Country: France, China; Year: 2015; Director: Pengfei; Writer: Pengfei, Isabelle Mayor; Stars: Ying Ze, Luo Wenjie, Zhao Fuyu)