Venice 2017 Archives - The Playlist

Superb Venice & TIFF-Winning Aussie Western ‘Sweet Country’ With Sam Neill [Review]

September 20, 2017 5:01 pm

There are few more charged, more disturbingly redolent images than that of a black man in shackles. And so when Australian director Warwick Thornton, winner of the Venice Special Jury Prize and the Toronto Plat...

Frederick Wiseman’s Intensely Rewarding, Humane ‘Ex Libris: New York Public Library’ [Review]

Jessica Kiang

September 15, 2017 12:23 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

You probably haven't been thinking about libraries a lot recently, what with all the politics and genocide and hurricanes. But then, you may not have been thinking about the University of California, Berkeley, ...

Sexy Slow-Burn ‘Racer And The Jailbird’ With Matthias Schoenaerts & Adele Exarchopoulos [Venice Review]

Jessica Kiang

September 11, 2017 8:45 am

Festivals, News, Reviews

Though the lead characters of Michaël Roskam's "Racer and the Jailbird" (original title: "Le Fidèle") speak French, and conduct their low-key criminality on the streets of Brussels, their story feels like a son...

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Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Shape Of Water’ Wins The Top Prize At The Venice Film Festival

Rodrigo Perez

September 9, 2017 2:55 pm

Festivals, News

There's a seasonal, water-cooler joke around The Playlist: whatever we see at the Venice Film Festival, the Golden Lion top prize inevitably goes to a film we missed and or review way after the fact. This year,...

Abdellatif Kechiche's long-awaited new film MEKTOUB, MY LOVE- CANTO UNO

Abdellatif Kechiche’s ‘Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno’ [Venice Review]

Jessica Kiang

September 7, 2017 1:35 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

During the scintillating opening moments of "Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno" a young man peers through a window at a couple having gorgeous, abandoned sex, described in tactile, fleshy images of the beautiful youn...

‘mother!’: Darren Aronofsky’s Scorchingly Brilliant Thriller Is Visceral, Go-For-Broke Madness [Venice Review]

Jessica Kiang

September 5, 2017 7:52 am

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

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In through the nose, out slowly through the mouth...If you are not familiar with the Lamaze breathing technique for women in labor, acquaint yourself with it before donning your hazmat suit and embarking on Dar...

‘Woodshock’: Self-Indulgent Slog Among The Logs Is A Dull Dramatic Dream [Venice Review]

Jessica Kiang

September 4, 2017 7:19 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

The Spring 2018 collection from design house Rodarte, aka sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, is aflutter with floaty florals and sheer chiffons and it's an aesthetic that carries through to their gauzy, terminall...

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‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri’: An Acting Masterclass From Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell [Venice Review]

Gregory Ellwood

September 4, 2017 5:33 am

Awards, Awards Campaign, Festivals, News, Reviews

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It’s absolutely an oversimplification to say no one does grumpy like Frances McDormand these days. Now don’t overreact. That’s a compliment. McDormand gives her characters a nuance and depth that the screenwrit...

‘Victoria & Abdul’: Judi Dench Elevates Stephen Frears’ Feel-Good Dramedy [Venice Review]

Rodrigo Perez

September 3, 2017 2:13 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

If you wanted to be glib and coarse, not to mention antithetical to the film’s convivial tone, you could describe “Victoria & Abdul” as the movie that finally lets a constipated Queen Victoria take a shit. ...

‘West Of Sunshine’ Puts A Warm Ray Of Light On Fatherhood [Venice Review]

Kevin Jagernauth

September 3, 2017 12:25 pm

News, Reviews

In an era of cinematic universes, expanded narratives, and multi-threaded storytelling, there is an attractive elegance in simplicity. For his debut feature, Jason Raftopoulos keeps things refreshingly clean wi...

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