Venice Film Festival Highlights Political Cinema and Biopics
The Venice Film Festival showcased a strong lineup of political movies and biopics, including a film about photographer Gerda Taro. Critics noted a dominant buzz around independent voices and historical narratives reflecting current global tensions.
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‘A fierce need to be independent’: Gerda Taro biopic pulls photographer out of lover Robert Capa’s shadow
Film premieres at Venice as researchers question who took famous Spanish civil war shot of ‘falling soldier’, credited to the pair’s Robert Capa alias She was one of the most fearless female photojournalists of the 20th century, and the first known to have been killed while covering a war. But in life and in death, the work of Gerda Taro has often been overshadowed by the collaborator and lover whose alias she invented and sometimes shared: Robert Capa. That may be about to change with a new ...
By Philip Oltermann in Venice and Stephen Burgen in Barcelona
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Is Venice still vibrating from all the rounds of applause? It’s become customary for audiences at the festival’s premieres to clap and cheer for a seeming eternity after the credits roll. (Often to the visible discomfort of the actors and filmmakers, who look like they don’t know what to do with themselves when the hurrahs […]
By Rebecca Rubin
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