Venice film festival 2022
White Noise review – Don DeLillo adaptation is a blackly comic blast
DeLillo’s novel of campus larks and eco dread has long been ogled by Hollywood. Now it gets an elegant, droll treatment from Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig
Peter Bradshaw
01, Dec, 2022 @1:20 PM
Romain Gavras: ‘My dad fed me Tarkovsky from the age of seven’
Rejecting his director father’s love of arthouse, the film-maker threw himself into pop videos. Now, with his political drama Athena, he’s joining the family business
Xan Brooks
16, Sep, 2022 @10:00 AM
Talking cats, magic brooms and robot bar staff – welcome to the future of storytelling
The Venice film festival section Venice Immersive is dedicated to ‘extended reality’, where visitors can explore new narrative worlds. Our intrepid correspondent gets lost
Xan Brooks
12, Sep, 2022 @12:51 PM
Venice film festival 2022 week two roundup – discomfort and joy
A mood of theatricality prevailed at this year’s edition – a bleak but furiously cinematic Marilyn Monroe biopic and a forbiddingly austere French courtroom drama being the most distinctive offerings
Jonathan Romney
10, Sep, 2022 @6:00 AM
The Listener review – Tessa Thompson braves the trials of a helpline volunteer
Venice film festival: Steve Buscemi’s uneven drama is elevated by the poise and focus of its lone star
Peter Bradshaw
09, Sep, 2022 @2:45 PM
Blonde review – Some like it rotten: Monroe biopic is moving, explicit and intensely irritating
Venice film festival: Andrew Dominik’s controversial drama finds space for talking foetuses, presidential sex and a starry throuple – but denies its subject sufficient agency
Leslie Felperin
08, Sep, 2022 @5:00 PM
‘I truly believe she was close’: star of new biopic sensed Marilyn Monroe on set
Director Andrew Dominik also says that scenes for the controversial Netflix release, filmed in the room where the iconic actor died were ‘like a seance’
Nadia Khomami Arts and culture correspondent
08, Sep, 2022 @3:20 PM
The Damned Don’t Cry review – mournful portrait of colonial tension
Venice film festival: Fyzal Boulifa explores the decisions forced on a poverty-stricken Moroccan family in this vivid and powerful drama
Peter Bradshaw
08, Sep, 2022 @2:45 PM
The Son review – laceratingly painful drama of familial fear and loathing
Florian Zeller’s follow-up to The Father features a tremendous performance from Hugh Jackman, as a divorced lawyer who agrees to look after his troubled offspring
Peter Bradshaw
07, Sep, 2022 @5:15 PM
Hugh Jackman says starring in The Son changed his approach to parenting
Actor says Florian Zeller’s film made him aware of how important it is to share vulnerabilities as a father – not just be strong and dependable
Nadia Khomami at the Venice film festival
07, Sep, 2022 @4:00 PM
Love Life review – tangled and tragic human drama about chaotic life twists
Venice film festival: Japanese director Kôji Fukada has crafted a richly painful and quietly comic human drama
Peter Bradshaw
07, Sep, 2022 @12:18 PM
Sources deny Harry Styles spat on Chris Pine at the Don’t Worry Darling premiere
The singer turned actor had been the focus of a viral clip that allegedly shows him spitting on his co-star at the Venice film festival
Catherine Shoard
06, Sep, 2022 @4:34 PM
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