Reviews

Director: Benoit Jacquot Writers: Benoit Jacquot, Julien Boivent Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni, Benoit Peolvoorde 116min  Drama/melodrama  French with English subtitles 3 COEURS is a classic French ménage à trois where two provincial...

Director: Barry Levinson Cast: Al Pacino, Greta Gerwig, Nina Ariadna USA 2014, 112 min. In Levinson's adaptation of the novel by Philip Roth, Simon Axler, a famous actor on the wrong side of...

Director: Ulrich Seidl Writers: Ulrich Seidl, Veronika Franz 81min  Doc  Austria After exploring the sex lives of a three contemporary women (Love, Hope, Paradise), Austrian maverick, Ulrich Seidl, plumbs the domestic cellars of...

 Director: Todd Douglas Miller Main Actors: Susan Hendrickson, Peter L. Larson, Neal L. Larson 105 mins    Doc   US In the summer of 1990, a group of palaeontologists from the Black Hills...

Dir.: Walerian Borowczyk Cast: Michel Simon, Ligia Branice, Georges Wilson, Jacques Perrin, Lawrence Trimble France 1971, 92 min. Thirteenth century France: An old baron (Simon) lives with his beautiful, pure wife, Branice, in...

Director/writer: Kim Ki-Duk Don Lee, Kim Young-min, Lee Yi-kyung, Cho Dong-in, Yoo Teo, Ahn Ji-hye, Jo Jae-ryong, Kim Joong-ki Drama, South Korea, 122 min Kim Ki-Duk hasn’t been given a competition berth at...

LA RANÇON DE LA GLOIRE Dir.: Xavier Beauvois Cast: Benoit Poelvoorde, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Nadine Labaki France/Belgium/Switzerland, 114 min. 1977: Eddie, a 40 year old Belgian small-time crook, is released from prison in...

Director: Alex Gibney 119min   US   Documentary Well-known, prolific documentary-maker Alex Gibney has recently given us Mea Maxima Culpa; Julian Assange in Wikileaks: We Steal Secrets and Lance Armstrong (The Armstrong Lie). This time he turns his...

With a focus on World premieres from maverick directors from France, Italy and the USA, this year's Venice Film Fesitval (27 August until 7th September) may yet prove to be...