Venice film festival 2020
Mandibles review – bizarre giant-fly comedy runs out of sugar It’s a truly daft idea, but Quentin Dupieux’s film about a pair of robbers who try to train a giant insect doesn’t quite go the distance
The Disciple review – Indian classical musician sings a lonely tune Years of adherence to stringent rules leave a performer at odds with society in this melancholy film from India’s first Venice competitor for two decades
Winners by default? Where this year's Oscar race stands After fall festivals unveiled slim line-ups, the next few months remain difficult to predict with the pandemic still changing release schedules
Frances McDormand feature Nomadland wins the Golden Lion at Venice film festival
Venice film festival 2020 roundup – against all the odds, a triumph
And Tomorrow the Entire World review – German antifa drama skewers left and right
Venice in the age of Covid: ‘The promise of tragedy might be the festival’s USP’
Sun Children review – Iranian street kids strike gold Majid Majidi’s cast of young toughs digging for treasure under a school deliver a heart-rending story with unexpected depth of emotion
Hopper/Welles review – fascinating, exasperating home movie of a drunken evening Intriguing but long-winded, this restored relic from 1970 reveals the two directors holding forth on everything from sex to Elvis
The Furnace director: stories of Australia's cameleers 'felt like a huge historic omission' Roderick MacKay hopes his film, which premiered at Venice, can trigger new interest in modern Australia’s complex and brutal history
One Night in Miami review – a pivotal moment for black America
Regina King makes history at Venice film festival with One Night in Miami
Dear Comrades review – Konchalovsky wrong-foots us with humour and horror
'I'm surrounded by ghosts': Bataclan survivor Ismaël El Iraki on his film Zanka Contact
The World to Come review – a spellbinding romance of stolen hours Mona Fastvold’s drama stars Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby as 19th-century farmers’ wives seeking escape from drudgery and husbands
Names in the news
Tilda Swinton: championing talent, regardless of gender Rebecca Nicholson The star was the first to welcome the abolition of male and female awards at the Berlin film festival
Pieces of a Woman review – agonised portrait of a splintering marriage Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó makes his English-language debut with this drama about a couple devastated by the death of their baby
Pieces of a Woman director: gender neutral awards 'a logical move' Hungarian film-maker Kornél Mundruczó backs up Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchett, saying it was a step towards genuine equality
The Duke review – art thief takes one for the common man
Padrenostro review – a deep dive into a director’s subconscious
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