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Cannes 2008 - Critics' Week - Snow scoops Grand Prize 2008
2008-05-27 10:37:50The prize list for the 47th Critics' Week is dominated by European films, including top winner Snow, the debut feature by Bosnian director Aida Begic (see news). Produced by Mamafilm in co-production with German company Rohfilm, French-based Films de l'Après-midi and an Iranian partner, the film will be released in France by Pyramide, who are also handling international sales. A hotbed of...
Venice 2008 - Critics Week - Sidebar section offers seven world premieres
2008-07-24 05:00:18All seven debut films in competition in this year's International Critics Week (August 28-September 5) are world premieres. The Venice Film Festival sidebar is promoted by the National Union of Italian Film Critics. “The films are all very new, some have just been finished. It wasn't easy to get them, competition among festivals is becoming increasingly more ferociousâ€, said...
Awards - Norway - Haugesund critics want Class
2008-08-26 05:00:04The 2008 Golden Palm winning film The Class was awarded the Critics Award during the closing ceremony of the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund on August 21. Laurent Cantet's film will be released in Norway at Christmas through Arthaus. Three other awards were given out during the 36th NIFF: Thomas Vinterberg's Danish comedy A Man Comes Home won the Audience and a Special...
Venice 2008 - Critics' Week/Norway - Cold Lunch's chilling stories
2008-08-29 05:00:09"Nobody wants to be alone, do they?" says young Heidi on the phone to her mother. Her husband mistreats her, abandons her and their baby of a few months and, once reconciled with her, makes love by brutally sodomising her. But nobody wants to be alone, do they? Cold Lunch - which opened Critics' Week at the Venice Film Festival - is the remarkable feature debut by Norway's Eva Sørhaug. The...
Venice 2008 - Critics' Week - The Nightguards' post-war pains
2008-08-30 05:00:10Is it a "regurgitation of the war" that Mehir feels rise up in his stomach, reaching his head and heart? Or is it merely "matrimonial empathy", the same sickness that his wife has been suffering since she discovered she was pregnant? Forty-year-old Tuzla-born director Namik Kabil studied in Los Angeles before settling in Sarajevo, where he set his debut feature, Nightguards. Full of black...
Venice 2008 - Critics' Week / France - Kabuli Kid's neorealist taxi
2008-09-01 05:00:07In present-day Kabul, a woman abandons her newborn baby on the back seat of Khaled's taxi. This is the opening scene of Barmak Akram's Kabuli Kid, a journey across the Afghan capital in search of a mother about whom only one detail is known: that she has a mole on her right ankle, left uncovered by her long chadri. Born in Kabul, but living as a political refugee in Paris, Akram has for...
Venice 2008 - Critics' Week/France - Collardey explores rural world in L'apprenti
2008-09-04 05:00:07Samuel Collardey's L'apprenti (“The Apprentice”) combines documentary and fiction to tell the story of 15-year-old protagonist Mathieu. The latter is a student in an agricultural institute and is doing his apprenticeship (whence the film's title) on a small farm in Haut-Doubs (Franche-Comté), where Paul and his wife, Martine, produce milk. The son of separated parents, Mathieu...
Venice 2008 - Critics' Week/Italy - Grey-haired humour has the Lido in stitches
2008-09-04 05:00:07The Italian contingent is very large this year on the Lido, with each section having several Italian titles. The Critics' Week is no different, with Pippo Mezzapesa's Sogno di una morte di mezza estate screening as the non-competiting closing film and Gianni Di Gregorio's delightful comedy of manners Mid-August Lunch (Il Pranzo di Ferragosto) in competition. The Italian Ferragosto holiday...
Venice 2008 - Critics' Week - Death comes to Venice with Pinuccio Lovero
2008-09-06 05:00:12At a festival where the average film length is two hours, a 62-minute-long, low budget feature arouses curiosity. Pinuccio Lovero - sogno di una morte di mezz'estate (“Pinuccio Lovero - Dream of a Midsummer Death”) tells the story of a 40-year-old man who has always dreamed of working as a gravedigger and is finally employed as cemetery keeper in a small village in Puglia. It's a...
Venice 2008 - Awards/Critics' Week - France's L'Apprenti scoops Best Film
2008-09-06 05:00:12The 23. International Critics' Week jury - composed of international critics Bruno Fornara, Deborah Young and Elisabeth Lequeret - have awarded Best Film to Samuel Collardey's L'apprenti (“The Apprentice”, see news). The jury cited the following reasons for their decision: "The sincerity and subtlety with which the director combines documentary and narrative invention to reveal...
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