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How Maggie Gyllenhaal Used Dakota Johnson and Ellen Burstyn to Reimagine Marilyn Monroe at 100 in Venice Short ‘Flesh Impact’

Marilyn Monroe would have turned 100 this year. So when Maggie Gyllenhaal was approached to make a movie about her, she asked for a weekend to daydream about what that milestone might look like. What came back was “Flesh Impact,” a 17-minute short that hands the most consumed movie star of the 20th century something […]

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‘Our Share of Sand’ Review: A Brooding Indian Social Drama Told Through the Eyes of a Young Girl

A keenly observed class drama shown through the eyes of a child, Shalini Adnani’s “Our Share of Sand” overcomes its characters’ narrow construction through its brooding intensity. Set against a sand-mining crisis in modern India, it tells of a 12-year-old British Asian girl, Maya (Maya Mehta), who returns to the country to join her industrialist […]

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‘Tom and Jerry: Forbidden Compass’ Review: The Famous Cat-and-Mouse Duo Are Not Themselves In a Chaotic Chinese Cartoon

That title gives a first clue towards how misbegotten and compromised this new Tom and Jerry joint is. Everybody knows that Tom and Jerry shouldn’t be searching for a forbidden compass, whatever that might be: If the perma-warring pair are on a quest for something, it ought to be, say, some pickles for a big […]

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Robert Pattinson Wants Chris Hansen to Like ‘Primetime’ Despite His Criticisms: ‘I Hope the Inspiration His Character Has Given Is Some Kind of Compliment’

Robert Pattinson wants Chris Hansen to like “Primetime,” a tense thriller about the television journalist and “To Catch a Predator” host, which premieres on Saturday afternoon at the Venice Film Festival. The real-life Hansen has been vocal in his skepticism of the movie, which he said he hasn’t seen because he declined to sign a […]

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Marion Cotillard Praises Venice Biennale College Cinema Workshop: ‘Not all Films Are Destined to Draw Millions of Viewers and Turn a Profit’

Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard (“La Vie en Rose”) is at the Venice Film Festival in a new guise, as tutor of Biennale College Cinema, the workshop allowing emerging filmmakers to develop and produce micro-budget feature-length films, which is sponsored by Chanel. Biennale College Cinemas was conceived 15 years ago by Venice chief Alberto Barbera in tandem […]

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‘Mr Nelson, Did You Kill People?’ Review: An Assaultive Yet Turgid and Outdated Vietnam PTSD Drama

If Shinya Tsukamoto’s “Mr Nelson, Did You Kill People?” were the first, or even the 51st, movie to litigate the atrocities committed by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, perhaps on a purely informational level some justification would exist for its crudely simplistic approach. Nuance is often a casualty of war, especially when that war […]

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‘Everest: The Other Side’ Review: The ‘Free Solo’ Directors Return With Another Extreme Sports Doc, This Time Tainted by Tragedy

“Because it’s there” is the famous, possibly apocryphal, reply attributed to British mountaineer George Mallory when asked why he wanted to climb Mount Everest. Unlike present-day climber Jim Morrison, Mallory didn’t also want to ski down it. But doesn’t the same non-answer apply? Why are certain people compelled toward any of these reckless, perilous, barely […]

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‘The Liberation’ Review: Carrie Coon Is Breathtaking as a Woman Lured by a Cult in Guy Nattiv’s Deeply Personal Film

“You carry a lot of weight around, don’t you?” In Guy Nattiv’s observant, harrowing and unmistakably feminine “The Liberation,” this line marks the first time someone truly sees through fortysomething protagonist Rita Cooper. Based on Nattiv’s own grandmother (alongside various cult survivors) and played by Carrie Coon with extraordinary emotional presence and pent-up energy privately […]

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Swiss Projects at the Venice Gap-Financing Market: Natural Disaster, Complicated Romance, Exploited Migrants, Murder Mystery in Montana

Both well-established and up-and-coming Swiss filmmakers are taking part in the Venice Film Festival’s Production Bridge industry strand, where Switzerland will be one of the country’s in focus at the Gap-Financing Market. Seven Swiss projects and co-productions are among the total of 38 fiction and documentary works featured in the Venice Production Bridge’s Gap-Financing Market […]

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Rubaiyat Hossain on Bodies, Beauty and Venice, Toronto and London-Bound ‘The Difficult Bride,’ Clip Unveiled (EXCLUSIVE)

The idea for “The Difficult Bride” traces back to a story Rubaiyat Hossain heard as a 7 year old, visiting a Dhaka beauty parlor with her mother. “There was a bride who died there,” Hossain says. “Everyone knew this story from our generation, and I remember being seven, and even at that time, I had […]

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Mad Solutions and Haitham Dabbour’s Irth Platform Announce Strategic Pan-Arab Content Partnership in Venice

Pan-Arab distributor Mad Solutions and Egyptian multihyphenate Haitham Dabbour’s Irth platform dedicated to supporting standout writers across the Arab world announced a strategic partnership on Saturday at the Venice Film Festival that aims to boost quality content output from the region. Under the pact, Mad Solutions and Irth will jointly “develop, package and support film, television and […]

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Lav Diaz Preps False Prophets Film and Jose Rizal’s ‘Noli Me Tangere’ Adaptation, Unpacks Venice Title ‘Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors’ (EXCLUSIVE)

Lav Diaz is developing a film about false prophets and a screen adaptation of José Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere,” the Filipino auteur reveals, alongside details on “Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors” (“Makikiraan Po”), his Spanish colonization drama premiering in the Venice Open section of the Venice Film Festival. Diaz tells Variety, “Right now, I’m working […]

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