Venice Film Festival

Buona sera, dear readers! With the awards doled out and festivities winding down, it’s time to look back at another top-notch year at the Venice Film Festival. Boasting a stacked programme of mouth-watering premieres, the…

They call it The Floating City, a moniker particularly apt during Venice’s International Film Festival, when you find yourself hovering between several film screenings a day on half a croissant and no sleep. Then again, who needs…

It’s difficult not to compare Audrey Diwan’s brutal, bracing Happening to Eliza Hittman’s Never Rarely Sometimes Always or Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days. Granted, given they are all three accomplished dramas detailing…

Lili Taylor has been a mainstay of American indie and mainstream cinema since 1988. This week we turn our focus to her performances in a wide variety of films. Much sought after for both her timeless appeal and ability to dig deep into very…

Venice Film Festival - one of the world's 'big three' film festivals alongside Cannes and Berlin - wrapped a week ago. Yet, plenty of the movies I saw there have lingered and lived on in my brain days after watching. Realising I'll have no…

Zen in the Ice Rift, an Italian drama from writer-director Margherita Ferri, opens quite strikingly. We first see non-binary teenager Maia 'Zen' Zenardi (Eleonora Conti) give the middle-finger to the audience. This is before walking up to a…