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Venice Film Festival · 2023

Venice Film Festival 2023

Orizzonti Extra

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9 films · 2 reviews

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Day Of The Fight

Follows a boxer on the day of his first fight since getting out of jail.

(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Jack Huston; Writer: Jack Huston; Stars: Ron Perlman, Joe Pesci, Michael Pitt, John Magaro, Anatol Yusef, Jordyn Rax, Nicolette Robinson, Kaili Vernoff, Isa Wnek, Leo Solomon, Tim Gallin, Charles Massey, Billy Griffith, Tom Johnson, Phillip Johnson Richardson)

The Dreamer (L'Homme D'Argile)

SYNOPSIS - Raphaël, a one-eyed man, is the caretaker of a mansion where no one lives anymore. Soon to turn 60, he lives with his mother in a small house located at the entrance to the grounds of the stately manor. Between mole hunting, bagpipe practice and the occasional ride in the postwoman’s Kangoo van, the days resemble one another. But one stormy night Garance, the estate’s heiress, comes back to the family’s abode and now nothing will ever be the same again.

(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2023; Director: Anaïs Tellenne; Writer: Anaïs Tellenne; Stars: Raphaël Thiéry, Emmanuelle Devos, Marie-Christine Orry, Mireille Pitot, Alexis Louis Lucas, Vincent Thomas, Cesare Capitani, Zoran Boukherma, Ludovic Boukherma, Natasha Cashman)

Felicità

(Country: Italy; Year: 2023; Director: Micaela Ramazzotti; Writer: Isabella Cecchi, Alessandra Guidi; Stars: Micaela Ramazzotti, Anna Galiena, Florence Guérin, Sergio Rubini, Beatrice Vendramin, Massimiliano Tortora, Matteo Olivetti, Pierfrancesco Pappa)

Forever-Forever (Navazhdy-Navazhdy)

Teenage coming-of-age tale.

(Country: Ukraine, Netherlands; Year: 2023; Director: Anna Buryachkova; Writer: Anna Buryachkova, Marina Stepanska; Stars: Zachary Shadrin, Oleksandr Yatsenko, Dasha Zhykharska, Yelyzaveta Tsilyk, Alina Cheban, Arthur Aliiev, Arsenii Markov, Klim Reva, Asia Pshenychna, Daria Malakhova, Daria Zhykharska)

In The Land Of Saints And Sinners

Review preview for In The Land Of Saints And Sinners

With plenty of meat for its fine cast to chew on, the film is often intense but never loses its nuance.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A retired assassin finds himself drawn into a game of cat and mouse.

(Country: Ireland; Year: 2023; Director: Robert Lorenz; Writer: Terry Loane, Mark Michael McNally; Stars: Liam Neeson, Sarah Greene, Kerry Condon, Jack Gleeson, Ciarán Hinds, Conor MacNeill, Colm Meaney, Desmond Eastwood, Seamus O'Hara, Bernadette Carty, James Sadat, Mark O'Regan, Valentine Olukoga, Conor Hamill, James P. McKeever)

Pet Shop Boys

A pair of men embark on a whirlwind affair in this portrait of relationships in modern New York.

(Country: UK, Italy, US, Mexico; Year: 2023; Director: Olmo Schnabel; Writer: Galen Core, Jack Irv, Olmo Schnabel; Stars: Grace Brennan, Willem Dafoe, Maribel Verdú, Peter Sarsgaard, Angela Sarafyan, Jordi Mollà, Emmanuelle Seigner, Louis Cancelmi, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Camille Rowe, Gerry Bednob, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Jack Irv, Tal Chatterjee, Kristina Horan)

Phantom Youth (Bota Jone)

A pair of friends fall in with a crowd of rebellious youngsters.

(Country: France, Kosovo; Year: 2023; Director: Luàna Bajrami; Stars: Aurora Ferati, Tristan Halilaj, Albina Krasniqi, Elsa Mala, Gani Rrahmani, Urate Shabani, Don Shala, Armend Smajli)

The Rescue (El Rapto)

Julio returns with his family to Argentina after the dictatorship falls. But when his brother is kidnapped, Julio must negotiate with the criminals.

(Country: Argentina, US; Year: 2023; Director: Daniela Goggi; Writer: Andrea Garrote, Daniela Goggi; Stars: Rodrigo de la Serna, Julieta Zylberberg, Jorge Marrale, Germán Palacios, Andrea Garrote, Carlos Garmendia)

Stolen

Review preview for Stolen

Tejpal’s debut may be uneven but it's certainly not short of momentum.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
Two brothers try to rescue a baby that has been stolen from its mother.

(Country: India; Year: 2023; Director: Karan Tejpal; Writer: Agadbumb, Gourav Dhingra, Karan Tejpal; Stars: Abhishek Banerjee, Sahidur Rahaman, Mia Maelzer, Harish Khanna, Shubham, Ankit Sain)