It’s officially started 80th Venice International Film Festival: Lido, the most famous lagoon city in the world, has already started hosting world famous directors, actors and actresses and their films. There are many thickness titles in the competition: from Poor things From Yorgos Lanthimos to new efforts Luc Bessonnot yet expected ferrari From Michael Mann. Pass or not pass? In this article we will collect for the entire period of the Venice Film Festival reviews of the most anticipated films. Day after day we will post the opinions of the editors Best movie to offer you a practical guide to the various entries in the main competition. Venice 80 and other sections.
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OVERVIEW OF VENICE80
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Commander Edoardo De Angelis
Comandante, an ambitious military blockbuster more mournful than spectacular, chooses the most impenetrable and difficult to tell story of the fascist war hero Salvatore Todaro: a choral fresco on pieta, a redeeming ideology, about the great torment of a man. which nuances the torture of martial discipline.
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El Conde, Pablo Larrain
Venice 80, all reviews of the most anticipated films of the Venice Film Festival
El Conde is to Pablo Larraín what Bardo is to Iñárritu: undeniably a free film in which the director revisits Pinochet’s bloody past in Chile, turning the dictator into a literal monster, a vampire. A divertissement that, however, ends with its premise: this biopic is very far from the nuances of Spencer and goes beyond the allegorical aspect, and there is not much crude political satire in it.
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Ferrari brings with it the aloofness of the Italian spirit seen in Gucci’s America and Pasolini’s grim somberness of Ferrara, but in the middle is the skill of Michael Mann, a pure director enamored of both technical knowledge and the elusive ghosts of desire.
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Venice 80, all reviews of the most anticipated films of the Venice Film Festival
In Dogman, Luc Besson wants to explore the psychological consequences of severe suffering, such as that experienced by a child who was locked in a dog cage by his father (news that actually happened). The result is a film that travels from the Joker to his very own Leon, deeply empathic in its impact but sadly worn down when it comes time to reach a dramatic climax.
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Bastardin Nicholas Arcel
In Bastardene, Mads Mikkelsen plays a man who, in order to fulfill his bucolic dream of taming the Danish swamps, finds himself at the center of an epic story that is both epic and tragic. The forerunner of Rambo, a character beautifully portrayed by the Danish translator who, like a black hole, draws every scene or little movement towards him, raising the effectiveness of a film that is sometimes very classical in its setting by several notches.
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The Poor Deeds of Yorgos Lanthimos
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Poor Deeds is a whimsical coming-of-age, primarily interested in exploring the sexual realm of Emma Stone’s novel The Frankenstein Exhibition: the story of a woman brought back to life and forced to start from scratch is the pretext for a penetrating social satire in which she moves between the allegorical and the literal, pursuing feminist examples, a kind of gothic analogue of Barbie, in which Lanthimos again places the body and the processes of its transformation at the center.
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Adagio by Stefano Sollima
In the Adagio, Stefano Sollima closes the circle with Romanzo Criminale: after dawn, the sunset of the Banda della Magliana takes place here, told through a chiaroscuro story with the participation of old and new generations. A gangster film that uses all the experience and skill of a director who simply lacks the edge, the edge that would distinguish it from the rest of his already large filmography of this genre.
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