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‘A Year Of School’ review: A Swedish girl finds her way in an Italian all-male high school
Dir: Laura Samani. Italy/France. 2025. 103 minutes
Italian filmmaker Laura Samani offers with the load of expectation generated by her 2021 debut Small Physique by...
‘My Tennis Maestro’ review: Pierfrancesco Favino charms as a faded Italian tennis pro
Dir: Andrea Di Stefano. Italy. 2025. 125mins
Having made 4 hard-boiled crime motion pictures in each English (together with his 2014 debut, Escobar: Paradise Misplaced)...
‘Inside Amir’, Greece-UK feature ‘Bearcave’ among Venice’s Giornate degli Autori winners
Amir Azizi’s Inside Amir and UK function Bearcave had been among the many winners of the 2025 version of Giornate degli Autori, the unbiased...
Sara Ishaq’s ‘The Station’ wins top prize at Venice’s Final Cut awards
The Station (Al Mahattah), the debut function of Yemeni-Scottish filmmaker Sara Ishaq, has received the highest prize on the Last Lower awards for initiatives...
‘Duse’ review: Italian auteur Pietro Marcello’s ambitious biopic of actress Eleonora Duse
Dir: Pietro Marcello. Italy/France. 2025. 123mins
Italian auteur Pietro Marcello has at all times been within the intersection between historical past and particular person...
‘La Grazia’ review: An impressive Toni Servillo anchors Paolo Sorrentino’s austere Venice opener
Dir/scr: Paolo Sorrentino. Italy. 2025. 131mins
Paolo Sorrentino can often be relied on for stylistic and thematic fireworks so a brand new movie from the idiosyncratic Italian auteur...
‘The Kidnapping Of Arabella’ review: Chris Pine and Benedetta Porcaroli star in quirky Italian road movie
Dir/scr: Carolina Cavalli. Italy. 2025. 107mins
It's by no means simple to steer the boat of quirky absurdism previous the whirlpool of pretentiousness with out...
‘Fuori’ review: Mario Martone, Valeria Golino zoom in on ‘Art Of Joy’ author Goliarda Sapienza
Dir: Mario Martone. Italy/France. 2025. 115mins
Fuori is a typically participating, typically self-indulgent story of an Italian feminine author’s unorthodox journey in the direction of...
‘Heads Or Tails?’ review: John C. Reilly is Buffalo Bill in this ‘rambunctious’ spaghetti Western
Dir: Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis. Italy/USA. 2025. 107mins
Within the late nineteenth century, American showman ‘Buffalo Invoice’ Cody (John C. Reilly, bewhiskered and...
‘Where The Night Stands Still’ review: Modest Filipino domestic helper drama is set in rural Italy
Dir/scr. Liryc Dela Cruz. Italy/Philippines 2025. 75mins
The tensions of exile and servitude are performed out in deceptively low-key style in The place The Evening Stands Nonetheless, an Italy-set...