Venice Film Festival Showcases New Dramas and Director Returns
The Venice International Film Festival continues its premiere season with critically acclaimed new features, including Andrew Haigh’s western drama and Mike Leigh’s latest film. The lineup also highlights returning veteran directors and works addressing contemporary geopolitical conflicts.
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A Long Winter review – hope, desire and subversion in Andrew Haigh’s beautiful winter western
Telluride film festival In a remote Colorado farmstead, a family with a mother gone missing finds a strange buoyancy and freedom as they wait for the snows to melt Andrew Haigh’s mysterious and beautiful new film is adapted by him from the 2006 story by Colm Tóibín, transplanting the action from the 1930s Spanish Pyrenees to the wintry, vertiginous landscapes of Colorado about the time of the Korean war. It is a poignant, subversive study of grief and desire, and the terrible, infantilised lo...
By Peter Bradshaw
Read full article →Impact of War in Iran Set to Feature in Two Venice Film Festival Dramas
With war still ravaging Iran — six months after the country was attacked by U.S. and Israeli forces — the Venice Film Festival is set to launch two Iranian films that will provide viewers vivid on-the-ground insight on the conflict’s societal impact as the country contends with bombs and its repressive regime. Ali Asgari, who […]
By Nvivarelli
Read full article →‘A Long Winter’ Review: Fred Hechinger and Ebon Moss-Bachrach Shine as Family Thrust Into Uneasy Isolation in Andrew Haigh’s Fine-Grained Drama
Also featuring Caitríona Balfe, Kit Connor and D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, the film — adapted from Colm Tóibín's novella — measures the after-effects of a disappearance in the Rocky Mountains in the 1950s.
By David Rooney
Read full article →‘Tender Loving Care’ Review: Kate O’Flynn Stars In What Could Be Mike Leigh’s Final Film, But It Happens To Be One Of His Best – Telluride Film Festival
There has been much talk in film circles that the great Mike Leigh’s latest film, Tender Loving Care, might be his last. Health issues, general aging and other things can get in the way for all of us, but if this turns out to be his finale, at least in terms of feature films — […]
By Pete Hammond
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