Venice film festival 2021
Call My Agent!’s Laure Calamy: ‘I have too much energy’
The ebullient French star on her hyperactive new film, taking on more serious roles and her love of British cinema
Double duty: hybrid outfits suit the mood for return to the office
Venice film festival 2021 – in pictures
Venice film festival 2021 roundup – a formidably good year on the Lido
Big name directors at their best feature alongside daring visionaries from the farther realms of art cinema – but to whom will Bong Joon-ho’s jury award the Golden Lion?
The Last Duel review – Affleck, Damon and Driver deliver damp mullets in the fog
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon: The Last Duel is a feminist movie
Halloween Kills review – indestructible killer returns in efficient follow-up
Captain Volkonogov Escaped review – on the run in through-the-mirror Soviet Russia
Old Henry review – a rootin’ tootin’ barrel of wild-west cliches
Tim Blake Nelson has a blast as a pig farmer with something to hide, but this low-aiming western is as familiar as refried beans
Happening review – sex and abortion on the new frontline in 60s France
Adapted from Annie Ernaux’s novel, this drama about a student agonising over an illegal termination plays out as a tense, gripping thriller
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon review – B-movie thrills in New Orleans superhero gumbo
The new film from Ana Lily Amirpour will keep the fans happy with the tale of mind-controlling waitress on the loose the French Quarter
Sundown review – Tim Roth a wonderfully relaxed sociopath in Venice’s funniest film
Michael Franco’s latest collaboration with the actor sees Roth on a Mexican beach holiday, blissfully unaffected by grief
First look review
True Things review – Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke’s erotic flopVenice has played host to the premiere of Harry Wootliff’s oddly bog-standard story of a Ramsgate benefits officer wooed by a love-rat
Last Night in Soho review – a gaudy romp that’s stupidly enjoyable
Edgar Wright’s time-travel film plays like a 60s pop song building towards a big climax
Il Buco review – unhurried meditation on the beauties of geological time
Ten years after village doc Le Quattro Volte, Michelangelo Frammartino returns with an observational piece centring on a deep-cave system in Calabria
Venice film festival 2021 week one roundup – serious firepower
With big-hitters from Jane Campion, Pedro Almodóvar and Paolo Sorrentino, plus an electrifying return from Paul Schrader, it’s a heck of a starting lineup
First look review
The Lost Daughter review – Olivia Colman lights up Elena Ferrante psychodramaFirst look review
Dune review – blockbuster cinema at its dizzying, dazzling bestKristen Stewart on Princess Diana: ‘The sad thing was she felt so isolated and lonely’
Spencer review – Princess Diana’s disastrous marriage makes a magnificent farce
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