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Could Almodóvar's 'pro-euthanasia' film lead to legislative change?
Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar won the Golden Lion at this year's Venice Film Festival for his first English-language feature 'The Room Next Door'. The film deals with a topic that is still taboo for many: euthanasia. Can the film - or any film - engender changes to policy?
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Venice 2024 review: 'Joker: Folie À Deux' - Don't send in the clown
The sequel to 2019’s 'Joker' is the buzziest title of this year’s Venice Film Festival. This time, Lady Gaga joins director Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix for a follow-up that isn’t a straightforward psychological thriller but a semi-jukebox musical. Bold gambit. Shame it doesn't pay off.
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Venice 2024 review: Two takes on Luca Guadagnino's 'Queer'
One of our favourite films of this year's Venice Film Festival is a lot to take in... What else would you expect from a William S. Burroughs adaptation? We focus on how director Luca Guadagnino brings repressed desire to life and his use of music to enhance the themes in 'Queer'.
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Venice 2024: Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga talk 'Joker: Folie à Deux'
Premiering on the Lido this evening, 'Joker: Folie à Deux' is the highly anticipated sequel to 2019's controversial 'Joker'. Stars Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix discuss making it - and why the latter suddenly quit Todd Haynes' gay romance film recently.
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Venice 2024: 'The Room Next Door' - Almodóvar takes on life and death
Almodóvar's first English-language feature film is a powerful portrait of life, death and the unbreakable bonds that help us to navigate it all. At the same time, there's a sense some emotional authenticity got lost in translation.
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Venice 2024: Pedro Almodóvar's new film 'is in favour of euthanasia’
Returning to the Lido this year after 2021’s 'Parallel Mothers', Pedro Almodóvar's English-language debut stars Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore as two friends who confront life, death, and the controversial topic of euthanasia.
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Venice 2024: Nicole Kidman on erotic and sex-positive drama ‘Babygirl’
'Babygirl' has already become one of the most talked about movies on the Lido this year. Many are already tipping it for awards glory, especially when it comes to the performers, led by Nicole Kidman, who hopes it will be a “liberating story”.
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Film of the Week: 'Emilia Pérez' – Audiard’s Cannes-winning triumph
Following 'A Prophet' (2009), ‘Dheepan’ (2015) and 'Paris, 13th District' (2021), French director Jacques Audiard orchestrates a barnstorming comeback. His Mexico-set gangster trans musical featuring gender transitioning, cartels, gorgeous choreographies and songs about vaginoplasty is unmissable.