Variety’s critics share their favorites from the Venice, Telluride and Toronto lineups. Festivals: Venice, TorontoAbortion in Georgia is officially legal, though it may as well not be.
In Dea Kulumbegashvili’s staggering sophomore feature, Ia Sukhitashvili plays an expert obstetrician in a hard-up patch of Eastern Georgia, who uses her abilities and relative social privilege to work around the system where she can.
An uncompromising, intensely felt panorama of female identities, agencies and desires under attack, “April” manages to be a work of both controlled formal rigor and unleashed, often overwhelming human feeling. (Read Guy Lodge’s review.) Festivals: Venice, TorontoDistributor: A24Romy (Nicole Kidman) is the CEO of her own robotics company, with a nice family and a healthy “normal” love life.
But underneath it all, she’s craving the kind of transgressive sexuality that will break her existence apart. The young man who ignites her fantasies is Samuel (Harris Dickinson), one of her company’s new slate of interns.
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