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2024 or 1984? Films from Singapore and Japan tackle surveillance

Stranger Eyes, Happyend and 2073 take a worrying look at surveillance in Singapore, Japan and a Chairperson Trump-led future, respectively.

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10 of the best movies from the 2024 Venice Film Festival

Here is our pick of the best movies from the 2024 Venice Film Festival, including Golden Lion winner The Room Next Door.

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Who is Nicole Kidman’s journalist-turned-lawyer sister, Antonia Kidman?

The sudden death of Antonia and Nicole Kidman’s mum Janelle Ann just caused the Babygirl actress to cut her Venice Film Festival trip short.

Review | Broken Rage: Takeshi Kitano’s deliciously meta yakuza comedy

Takeshi Kitano blissfully does his own thing as an ageing hitman in short-and-sweet yakuza comedy Broken Rage.

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Review | Youth (Homecoming): Wang Bing’s compelling portrait of Chinese workers

Wang Bing spent three years compiling this documentary about migrant workers in Hebei and the moments of joy they find in their harsh lives.

A still from Youth (Homecoming).

Review | Stranger Eyes, unsettling Singaporean drama about being watched

Yeo Siew Hua muses over Singapore’s use of security cameras in his voyeuristic anti-thriller about surveillance of a missing child’s parents.

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Review | Joker: Folie à Deux – Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga in musical sequel

Lady Gaga plays music teacher and more to Phoenix’s Joker behind bars in a highly original sequel that’s menacing and beautifully styled.

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Review | Queer: Daniel Craig shines in Luca Guadagnino’s steamy drama

Premiering at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and starring Daniel Craig as a homosexual drug addict, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer is a faithful dive into the universe of author William Burroughs.

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Daniel Craig (left) and Drew Starkey in a still from Queer. Photo: Yannis Drakoulidis

Who is Shar, actress Sigourney Weaver’s non-binary child?

The Alien star’s only child with Jim Simpson is an author, adjunct professor at Columbia, and appeared on-screen with their mum in The Guys

Who is Shar Simpson, Alien and Avatar actress Sigourney Weaver’s non-binary kid? Photo: EPA-EFE

Update | The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodóvar’s Golden Lion winner

Tilda Swinton stars as a cancer patient who wants to end her life and asks her old friend (Julianne Moore) to be near her when she takes a euthanasia pill, in this Pedro Almodóvar drama.

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Review | Mistress Dispeller: documentary has unique take on love in China

A wife in China, suspecting her husband of an affair, hires a woman to break it up. Remarkable for the access she, the couple, and the mistress grant filmmaker Elisabeth Lo, its finale is extraordinary.

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Review | Cloud: Kiyoshi Kurosawa thriller takes aim at online reselling

The lead character’s get-rich-quick schemes rebound on him, and when a mob turns up the guns come out. Well enough acted and with atmospheric settings, Cloud is somehow less than the sum of its parts.

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Masaki Suda in a still from Cloud.

Review | In Maria, a delicate biopic, Angelina Jolie shines as opera singer

Pablo Larraín’s elegant Maria stars a stunning Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas, one of the greatest opera singers of all time, and tells the story of the final week before her fatal heart attack.

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Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in a still from Maria (category TBC), directed by Pablo Larraín. Photo: Pablo Larraín

Review | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Tim Burton revives his fantasy comedy

The plot is a bit of a grab bag, but the wacky characters and strong acting, from Monica Bellucci especially, make this film a more than acceptable sequel to Burton’s 1988 fantasy Beetlejuice.

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How to shoo away a cheating partner’s lover? Chinese documentary sheds light

In her new documentary, premiering at the Venice film festival, Elizabeth Lo, a Hong Kong-born filmmaker, follows a professional mistress dispeller in China who breaks up extramarital affairs.

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Why film on Malaysia’s darkest day was so hard to make

Snow in Midsummer’s director reveals the challenges he encountered when making the film about Malaysia’s deadly sectarian riots that left hundreds of mainly ethnic Chinese dead on May 13, 1969.

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Pauline Tan (right) and Lim Koet Yenn in a still from Snow in Midsummer. Photo: Golden Scene

The 10 best films of Hou Hsiao-hsien as the Taiwanese master retires

Forced into retirement by Alzheimer’s disease, Hou Hsiao-hsien leaves a legacy of 18 feature films. We rank his top 10, from Millennium Mambo to The Assassin, his last film, and A City of Sadness.

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The 10 best films of Zhang Yimou, director from China’s fifth generation

Zhang Yimou has directed wuxia epics (Hero, Shadow), comedies (One Second, Keep Cool) and films about 20th-century China (Raise the Red Lantern, Red Sorghum). Here is our pick of his top 10 films.

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5 ways Hong Kong legend Tony Leung got into character thanks to his costumes

From white tank tops in Wong Kar-wai’s films to a period-correct wardrobe in Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution, the recent Venice Film Festival awardee reinforces his acting chops with his style

Tony Leung Chiu-wai in a still from the film 2046 (2004). Photo: Handout

10 of the best films at Venice Film Festival 2023, with Emma Stone and more

Emma Stone shines in Golden Lion-winning black comedy Poor Things, J.A. Bayona retells the true survival story from 1993’s Alive, and films about Salvador Dali and Leonard Bernstein impress at this year’s festival.

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Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in a still from “Poor Things”, winner of the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival. Stone’s performance in the period black comedy makes her an Oscars favourite. Photo: Atsushi Nishijima/Searchlight Pictures and 20th Century Studios

Golden age: 4 actresses over 55 who slayed at the Venice Film Festival

Older actresses shone at this year’s Venice International Film Festival, from Carla Bruni and Emma Thompson to Isabelle Huppert and Charlotte Rampling

‘His idea’: Ryuichi Sakamoto’s son on late father’s concert film he directed

As Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus premiered at this year’s Venice Film Festival, the late Japanese composer’s son, who directed the feature, spoke to the Post about the challenges ofilming his cancer-stricken father.

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Evil Does Not Exist director on movie’s title and links to Drive My Car

The Post sits down with Ryusuke Hamaguchi, whose new movie Evil Does Not Exist – showing at the 2023 Venice Film Festival – was a totally new way of working for the Japanese director.

The 80th Venice Film Festival - Photocall for the film “Aku Wa Sonzai Shinai” (Evil Does Not Exist) in competition - Venice, Italy, September 4, 2023 - Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi poses. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

Review | Snow Leopard: late Tibetan director’s film shows best and worst of humanity

Tibetan filmmaker Pema Tseden’s posthumous film about a herder and a captive snow leopard explores the good and bad in people. Visually impressive, it is a reminder of a filmmaking talent lost too young.

A still from “Snow Leopard” (category TBC), directed by Pema Tseden, and starring Jinpa and Tseten Tashi.

Review | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus: Japanese composer’s riveting final concert film

Ryuichi Sakamoto, who died of cancer this year, filmed his final performance in 2022, playing 20 tracks from his long career. Elegantly shot in black and white by his son, its one fans shouldn’t miss.

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Update | Priscilla: Sofia Coppola’s bittersweet biopic of Elvis Presley’s ex-wife

Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola brings her inimitable style to Priscilla – a bittersweet biopic that follows the life of Elvis Presley’s ex-wife from when she met the singer to when she left him.

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Venice Film Festival
Reporting on the most famous and fashionable, and the films, at the annual Venice Film Festival
last updated:
9 September, 2024
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