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Venice film festival

7 September 2022

  • Love Life

    Love Life review – tangled and tragic human drama about chaotic life twists

    Japanese director Kôji Fukada has crafted a richly painful and quietly comic human drama

6 September 2022

  • "Don't Worry Darling" Red Carpet - 79th Venice International Film Festival<br>VENICE, ITALY - SEPTEMBER 05: Harry Styles attends the "Don't Worry Darling" red carpet at the 79th Venice International Film Festival on September 05, 2022 in Venice, Italy. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)

    Sources deny Harry Styles spat on Chris Pine at the Don’t Worry Darling premiere

    The singer turned actor had been the focus of a viral clip that allegedly shows him spitting on his co-star at the Venice film festival
  • Mommie nearest … Tilda Swinton in The Eternal Daughter.

    The Eternal Daughter review – double Tilda Swinton haunts Joanna Hogg ghost story

    Swinton plays both mother and daughter in a moving and disconcerting move into pseudo horror from the director of The Souvenir
  • Olivia Wilde, Chris Pine, Harry Styles and Gemma Chan at the premiere for Don’t Worry Darling.

    Don’t dribble, darling: did Harry Styles really spit at Chris Pine?

    The internet was already frothing at the mouth over the backstage wrangles on Olivia Wilde’s new film. And then its stars started opening their mouths

5 September 2022

  • Benedetta Porcaroli in Amanda.

    Amanda review – comic crises in the life of an entitled twentysomething

    A wealthy young woman, friendless and lost after studying abroad, sets about recovering an old friendship she thinks she once had
  • Something’s not working … Florence Pugh in Don’t Worry Darling.

    Don’t Worry Darling review – panic! Harry Styles drama offers cause for concern

    Styles’s accent is intentionally dodgy, but the rest of Olivia Wilde’s unconvincing tale of dystopian suburbia does not have the same excuse
  • Brendan Gleeson as Colm in The Banshees of Inisherin.

    The Banshees of Inisherin review – a Guinness-black comedy of male pain

    Martin McDonagh reunites Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson in remotest Ireland for an oddball study of isolation and hurt

4 September 2022

  • Brendan Fraser in The Whale.

    The Whale review – Darren Aronofsky’s latest is a contrived disappointment

    It’s hard to feel much sympathy for Brendan Fraser’s morbidly obese English teacher in this much anticipated but underwhelming return to movies
  • Film still: The Ghost of Richard Harris, documentary

    First look review
    The Ghost of Richard Harris review – a hushed reassessment of a hellraiser by his sons

    Venice film festival: There are some memorable moments in this documentary about the great Irish actor, but too many inconvenient truths are dismissed for it to be definitive

    • Other People’s Children review – a heartfelt modern love triangle

    • Master Gardener review – Paul Schrader’s plantation drama struggles to blossom

    • Brendan Fraser: role taught me severely obese people are ‘incredibly strong’

3 September 2022

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    Pearl review – Mia Goth and Ti West scare up a storm in extraordinary pandemic horror

  • Santiago Mitre at the Venice film festival

    Don’t take democracy for granted, warns director of Argentine junta film

  • Argentina-1985

    Argentina 1985 review – rousingly-acted junta trial dramatisation

  • Nan Goldin, left, and director Laura Poitras at the photo call for ‘All The Beauty and the Bloodshed' at the Venice Film Festival.

    Artists must expose corruption, urges director of documentary on opioid crisis

  • Blue Jean review – watchable section 28 drama makes its point

  • Venice film festival 2022 opening roundup – a promisingly juicy start

2 September 2022

  • Athena, official film still

    Athena review – brutal violence and bravura action in the Paris banlieues

  • Taylor Russell (left) as Maren and Timothée Chalamet (right) as Lee in BONES AND ALL, directed by Luca Guadagnino, a Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures film. Credit: Yannis Drakoulidis / Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures © 2022 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved. Film still

    Bones and All review – cannibal romance is a heartbreaking banquet of brilliance

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