Venice Film Festival · 2022
20 films · 13 reviews
The intimacies are staggering.
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Laura Poitras; Stars: Nan Goldin)
Darín excels in this complicated role, revealing his character layer by layer, almost in passing, as the story of the atrocities unfolds.
(Country: Argentina, US; Year: 2022; Director: Santiago Mitre; Writer: Mariano Llinás, Santiago Mitre; Stars: Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski)
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Romain Gavras; Writer: Elias Belkeddar, Romain Gavras, Ladj Ly; Stars: Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon, Ouassini Embarek, Alexis Manenti)
Banshees is lifted by good performances, particularly from Keoghan and Condon, whose major scene together has a delicacy of emotion that is sharply at odds with the brute force McDonagh more generally employs.
(Country: Ireland, UK, US; Year: 2022; Director: Martin McDonagh; Writer: Martin McDonagh; Stars: Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan, Morse)
Iñárritu is very capable – one might even say brilliant – but has no idea how to restrain himself.
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2022; Director: Alejandro González Iñárritu; Writer: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone; Stars: Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Andrés Almeida, Francisco Rubio)
(Country: Iran; Year: 2022; Director: Vahid Jalilvand; Writer: Vahid Jalilvand; Stars: Navid Mohammadzadeh, Diana Habibi, Amir Aghaee)
After we take aside all well-intentioned intellectualising, and all the nice-looking shots, what we have are almost three hours of over-aestheticised torture.
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Andrew Dominik; Writer: Andrew Dominik, based on the book by Joyce Carol Oates; Stars: Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, Julianne Nicholson, Lily Fisher)
The balance of subjectivity and object status becomes important in a story whose protagonists are always potentially dangerous to one another.
(Country: Italy, US; Year: 2022; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: David Kajganich, based on the book by Camille DeAngelis; Stars: Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, Jessica Harper, David Gordon Green, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jake Horowitz)
(Country: France, US; Year: 2022; Director: Frederick Wiseman; Stars: Nathalie Boutefeu)
(Country: UK, US; Year: 2022; Director: Joanna Hogg; Writer: Joanna Hogg; Stars: Tilda Swinton, Joseph Mydell, Carly-Sophia Davies)
(Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Gianni Amelio; Writer: Gianni Amelio, Federico Fava, Edoardo Petti; Stars: Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Leonardo Maltese, Sara Serraiocco)
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 2022; Director: Emanuele Crialese; Writer: Emanuele Crialese, Francesca Manieri, Vittorio Moroni; Stars: Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni)
(Country: Japan, France; Year: 2022; Director: Kôji Fukada; Writer: Kôji Fukada; Stars: Fumino Kimura, Kento Nagayama, Atom Sunada)
Anyone who has cared for a loved one whose mind is disintegrating will recognise some of these feelings.
(Country: US, Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Andrea Pallaoro; Writer: Andrea Pallaoro, Orlando Tirado; Stars: Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza, Emily Browning, Joshua Close)
As richly drawn as it is delicately handled.
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Rebecca Zlotowski; Writer: Rebecca Zlotowski; Stars: Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira)
Quietly devastating.
(Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Alice Diop; Writer: Alice Diop, Marie N'Diaye; Stars: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit)
This is a film of boundaries and barriers and attempts to overcome them.
(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Florian Zeller; Writer: Christopher Hampton, based on the play by Florian Zeller; Stars: Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Quarshie)
Phantom chimes at night produce an atmosphere that could tumble into horror movie territory, but the real damage is done during the day.
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Todd Field; Writer: Todd Field; Stars: Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Mila Bogojevic, Sylvia Flote, Sydney Lemmon, Mark Strong, Allan Corduner, Zethphan D. Smith-Gneist, Adam Gopnik)
A film that often lacks subtlety in its execution despite the performances and impressive make-up craft.
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Darren Aronofsky; Writer: Samuel D Hunter; Stars: Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Samantha Morton, Ty Simpkins)
Baumbach shoots his disaster scenes, evacuations, and poisonous cloud rife with contradictions. The purple sky of doom is beautiful and strangely soothing.
(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Noah Baumbach; Writer: Noah Baumbach, based on the book by Don DeLillo; Stars: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André L. Benjamin and Lars Eidinger, Barbara Sukowa)
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