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supports HTML5 videoOlivia Wilde seemingly dodged a question about her rumoured ‘feud’ with Florence Pugh behind-the-scenes on Don’t Worry Darling during the press conference at Venice Film Festival.Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde were seen posing together – albeit with Gemma Chan and Chris Pine between them – as they arrived to promote Don’t Worry Darling.Notably, Florence was absent from the photos after it was reported that she wouldn’t be able to make the press conference for the film amid reports of a feud with director Olivia.Speaking to press, Olivia said: ‘Florence is a force; we are so grateful she is able to make it tonight [to the premiere] despite being in production.’She reportedly added: ‘As for all the endless tabloid gossip and noise out there, the internet feeds itself. I don’t feel I need to contribute to it.

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‘Athena’ Review: Romain Gavras’ Police Brutality Thriller Is Positively Electrifying [Venice]

Romain Gavras wastes no time in “Athena” informing the audience of the stakes. There have been three cases of police brutality within two months in the titular majority-minority community.

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‘Un Couple’ Review: Frederick Wiseman’s Stylistic Exercise Is Pleasant, Albeit Plain [Venice]

While watching Frederick Wiseman’s “Un Couple” — the legendary documentarian’s first fictional drama— a different literary giant comes to mind besides the ones whose mercurial marriage is depicted on screen. The film’s fickle love recalls a verse from Latin poet Catullus, undoubtedly familiar to anyone who studied the language in school: “what a woman says to her ardent lover should be written in wind and running water.” The woman in question in “Un Couple” is Sophia Tolstoy, wife of legendary Russian novelist Leo, as embodied in the film by French actress Nathalie Boutefeu.

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‘Django & Django’: This Supposed Sergio Corbucci Doc Mostly Caters To The Musings Of Quentin Tarantino [Venice Review]

Quentin Tarantino never met a camera or microphone he didn’t love, and in Luca Rea’s documentary “Django & Django,” they love him right back. The title is a bit of a misnomer – it’s not really about Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 spaghetti western “Django” nor Tarantino’s 2012 “Django Unchained” that paid reverent homage.

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‘Freaks Out’: Gabriele Mainetti’s Circus-y Nazisploitation Fantasy Caper Is A Hot Mess [Venice Review]

Where to begin with “Freaks Out,” a Nazisploitation fantasy caper with circus trappings and a tin-ear for taste. The puzzling thing about Italian director Gabriele Mainetti’s feature set in 1943 in German-occupied Rome is that, rather than embracing tastelessness a la John Waters, it guns for earnestness despite not having a thoughtful bone in its body.

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‘Sundown’: Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg Play Siblings In Michel Franco’s Tragic Acapulco-Set Drama [Venice Review]

Anyone familiar with the work of Mexican director Michel Franco, whether they be admirers or detractors, can attest to the “this is not going to end well” sentiment his sordid cinematic provocations instill. With a pensive angle, “Sundown” – a reteaming between the filmmaker and his “Chronic” star Tim Roth – upholds that tension of expecting the worst to come the characters’ way.

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‘Miracle’ Lives Up To Its Name, Seamlessly Blending Narrative, Style, and Technique With Devastating Results [Venice Review]

A journey of discovery rooted in questions about faith, fate, and mortality, “Miracle” offers up revelations like slow drips from a faucet, building to a staggering conclusion that synthesizes all of the film’s narrative ingredients. Part two of director Bogdan George Apetri’s Romanian trilogy, the film is self-contained as a piece, yet features characters from 2020’s “Unidentified” along the edges, expanding the tapestry of this world while germinating an entirely new story.

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‘The Peacock’s Paradise’: Laura Bispuri Crafts A Masterclass In Mediocre Filmmaking [Venice Review]

“The Peacock’s Paradise” is one of the worst types of films to watch and review. Ineffectual in its style, but inoffensive in its content and execution, Laura Bispuri’s most recent directorial effort fails to move beyond the rudimentary elements that comprise the average movie.

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‘Last Night In Soho’ Sees Edgar Wright Running On The Fumes Of Old Enthusiasms [Venice Review]

Guess it had to happen sometime, but it’s a shame that the previously-thought-to-be inexhaustible energy resource of Edgar Wright’s omnivorous, giddy cinephilia should finally be showing signs running out right now, just when a jaded, weary, pandemic-drab world could use it most. Don’t get me wrong: with its dual-timeline gimmick and its evident love for the pastichey recreation of London in the Swinging Sixties decorating a coming-of-ager that becomes a fish-out-of-water drama that morphs into a murder-mystery that then turns into a slasher-horror, “Last Night in Soho,” which premiered today at the Venice Film Festival, boasts as ambitious a genre-melding concept as Wright has ever fielded.

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‘Madeleine Collins’ is a Knotty Exploration of A Dual Life [Venice Review]

Beginning with a dizzying one-shot that follows Judith – or is it Margot? – around a high-end clothing store before a fainting spell upends her shopping trip, Antoine Barraud’s “Madeleine Collins” is a laser-focused character study that literalizes a double-life, following Judith (a calculated Virginie Efira) as she attempts to balance seemingly having two husbands, two sets of children, two complete lives. Wisely withholding key information about how Judith came into this situation until the very end, Barraud’s film effectively grafts the tropes of Hitchcockian thriller onto a domestic portrait of a woman’s life spiraling out of control.

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Michelangelo Frammartino’s ‘Il Buco’ Is a Mournful Meditation on Earth’s Vanishing Mysteries [Venice Review]

Near the town of Cerchiara, in a valley nestled within the Pollino massif of mountains on the border between the Calabria and Basilicata regions of lushest Italy, there is a hole. It’s not the biggest hole, but at the time of its exploration, it was the second-deepest.

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‘Promises’ With Isabelle Huppert Is A Lackluster Political Drama [Venice Review]

A film about politics with a title like “Promises” all but comes with a get-out clause for failing to deliver on early hopes. And so it is with French director Thomas Kruithof’s lackluster second feature, which tries to pass gesturing vaguely at social ideas off as storytelling.

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‘The Hand Of God’: Paolo Sorrentino Touches Divinity With An Evocative Coming Of Age Magnum Opus [Venice Review]

“I don’t like reality anymore. Reality is lousy,” teenager Fabietto Schisa (Filippo Scotti) says mournfully at a crucial, spiritually lonely moment in Paolo Sorrentino’s evocative new coming of age story, “The Hand Of God.” Sitting on a mountain, looking to the sky, the heavens, for answers, Fabietto should know.

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Benedict Cumberbatch has fans swooning as he cuts a dapper figure in powder blue suit at Venice Film Festival

Benedict Cumberbatch cut a stylish and rather dashing figure as he arrived at the 78th Venice Film Festival.Looking suave in a blue suit with a casual white tee underneath, the actor, 45, smiled and waved at adoring fans.The Doctor Strange star, who arrived at the festival in style via boat taxi, accessorised with cool black shades and navy canvas shoes.He was later photographed with co-star Kirsten Dunst, with whom he shared a high five.The Spider-Man actor looked sophisticated in a black suit with peep toe heels, and shared a laugh with Benedict before they were joined by Jane Campion, the director of their new film.The stars attended the Film Festival ahead of the release of The Power of the Dog, a Western drama in which Benedict plays a

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‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song’ Is A (Mostly) Fascinating Chronicle Of A Musical Masterpiece [Venice Review]

Daniel Gellar and Dayna Goldfine’s “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song” begins at what is, by most definitions, the end: with Cohen’s final concert, in December of 2013. He roams the stage, growling out the title song in his trademark fedora and black suit, with all 79 of his years behind it, and it sounds like both a dirge and a celebration.

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‘Power Of The Dog’: Jane Campion Crafts Cinematic Poetry In Her Triumphant Big-Screen Return With Benedict Cumberbatch [Venice Review]

The ghost of a legendary cowboy named Bronco Henry haunts “The Power of the Dog,” an evocative, sensory psychodrama set in the American West of the 1920s. While Bronco is long gone and never seen on the screen, his spirit is felt everywhere in this soulful exploration of masculinity and repressed love, one that is equal parts untamed and delicate and wholly gorgeous.

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Venice Film Festival 2021 Preview: 12 Must-See Films To Watch

It’s late August, and while the leaves aren’t falling just quite yet, the Fall Film Festival season is upon us. As usual, the Venice Film Festival always starts with the Telluride Film Festival following on its heels just a day or two later.

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‘Mainstream’: Gia Coppola’s Slender YouTuber Satire Misses a Cheap Target [Venice Review]

The age of social media is a trap for contemporary writers and filmmakers eager to Say Something. From fusty old Facebook to Instagram to platforms most people over 25 couldn’t even name, it presents all manner of topical ironies and iniquities in society at large, all too easily open to commentary and critique by artists who needn’t look further than the device in their hand for research.

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‘Pieces of a Woman’: A Stunningly Complete Portrait of A Woman Under The Influence Of Grief [Venice Review]

Sometimes – not often enough – a movie doesn’t play on a screen in front of you so much as it happens to you. And while I can’t guarantee everyone’s mileage will be the same, from about five minutes in, from its enthrallingly tense beginning through to its unexpectedly transcendent close, while Kornel Mundruczo and Kata Weber‘s “Pieces of a Woman” was playing out on the screen in front of me, it was also taking up residence deep inside, spreading and growing like the apple seed that Vanessa Kirby‘s shattered character places tenderly in damp cotton to sprout.

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Cristiano Ronaldo’s girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez stuns as she takes on Venice Film Festival

dating Cristiano Ronaldo, had all eyes on her as she posed away at the 77th festival in the Italian city and who gave her permission to look that good please?Georgina, 26, donned a white shirt and trousers combo, slinging a co-ordinating jacket over her shoulders, and was all smiles as she rocked up to the event.Waving at the cameras, she looked completely content as she arrived solo at the Excelsior hotel.The star is clearly hyped for the event, after sharing a snap of herself boarding the plane in Madrid, and writing on Instagram: ‘Allá voy Venecia.’Earlier this year, Georgina sparked rumours that she and Cristiano had tied the knot, after affectionately calling him her ‘husband’ in a sweet Instagram post.However, Ronaldo had previously

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Glasgow supermarket film heads to Venice festival

A short film set in a Glasgow supermarket has been selected for this year’s Venice Film Festival.

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Olivia Wilde dodges question about Florence Pugh ‘feud’ after posing with Harry Styles at Venice for Don’t Worry Darling

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