After Cannes’ historical Palme D’or for Julia Ducournau’s Titane, Venice’s Leone d’Oro is also awarded to an entry by a female director. While another film written by Audrey Diwan premiered earlier this year at the Côte d’Azur (BAC Nord), L’événement is only her second feature in this role. The script is based on Annie Ernaux’s

In 14th century France, knight Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon) and squire Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver) share a volatile friendship. Saving one another’s lives in battle, they establish a lifelong fellowship, but when Le Gris ends up with a patch of land that has been promised to Carrouges as part of his dowry for

Three extraordinarily gifted men (Cencio, Fulvio and Mario) and a teenage girl (Matilde, played by Aurora Giovinazzo) work for Israel’s circus in Rome, when it is destroyed in a bomb attack. World War II has reached Italian soil, so the artists decide to scrape together everything they’ve earned in order to flee to America. But

40 years after the fateful first killing spree – Halloween Kills is set on the same night as its predecessor Halloween (2018) – the matriline of Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis) learn that their plan to trap and burn Michael Myers has not proved successful. Instead, the supervillain carries on in his attempt to obliterate

Comedic playwright and actor Eduardo Scarpetta (Toni Servillo) has women and audiences at his feet. He is hooked on the attention and reluctant to share, to the point that even his offspring have to follow his footsteps in the roles he has written for them. Upon seeing the success of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s drama The Daughter

In a Montana town in the 1920s, brothers Phil (Benedict Cumberbatch) and George Burbank (Jesse Plemons) live together and share ownership of a cattle ranch. The former is a tyrant who takes pride in his education, having gone to college. He looks down on those around him and lays traps in conversations that force interlocutors

Janis (Penelope Cruz) is a commercial photographer. For an assignment, she meets with forensic anthropologist Arturo (Israel Elejalde), of whom she has a personal favour to ask: the excavation of a mass grave in her hometown. Despite a lack of public funding for this endeavour, he agrees. The two start seeing each other and Janis

One might wonder how many biopics about one woman’s life are needed – in a span of eight years, no less – and understandably question what purpose Spencer could possibly serve. But the recent events surrounding the Royal Family give merit to Pablo Larraín’s so-called “fable” exploring the resignation of a princess. The film, which

Neil Bennett (Tim Roth) and his family are on vacation in Acapulco, when Alice (Charlotte Gainsbourg) gets a call that abruptly cuts their trip short: her mother back home in England is dying. After rushing to the airport and being waved through the queues by accommodating staff, Neil claims to have forgotten his passport. He

Naples in the mid-1980s: Diego Maradona has chosen Napoli as the next stop in his career, where the Argentinian player is heralded like the Second Coming of Christ. Directors Fellini and Capuano are shooting films in the city. Teenage Fabietto who lists “seeing” as his number one talent, is inspired by both these facts, and