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Venice #81 - The Room Next Door
After two short films in English, Pedro Almodóvar delivers his first feature not in his native Spanish with The Room Next Door . And he...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 3, 20242 min read


Venice #81 - The Brutalist
I thought the days when films looked great were gone forever. You know, when they actually looked like films, with that special magical...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 2, 20242 min read


Venice #81 - Maria
There is no doubt that Chilean director Pablo Larraín is the master of biopics. By developing his own formula, he specialised in...
Jack Salvadori
Aug 30, 20242 min read


Venice #81 - Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Disclaimer: in the following review I’ll be careful not to say "Beetlejuice" three times, in the slightest chance he comes back and they...
Jack Salvadori
Aug 30, 20242 min read


Raiders of the Lost Art
Bologna’s Il Cinema Ritrovato is the cinephile’s ultimate oasis “No, this time I won’t go”. After months of pondering, rationality struck...
Jack Salvadori
Jun 29, 20246 min read


Cannes #77 - "Grand Tour" Review
It’s the journey, not the destination. Few films aim to lift the audience to a different dimension. Even fewer actually succeed in such a...
Jack Salvadori
May 25, 20243 min read


Cannes #77 - "Anora" Review
Sean Baker’s downbeat vision of America is back with his latest film, starring Mikey Madison as a colourful stripper, Anora, chasing her...
Jack Salvadori
May 23, 20242 min read


Cannes #77 - "The Shrouds" Review
What is Vincent Cassel doing in a David Cronenberg costume? Perhaps The Shrouds is so personal to the cult director that its protagonist,...
Jack Salvadori
May 22, 20242 min read


Cannes #77 - "Emilia Perez" Review
Emilia Perez is a film like no other. French auteur Jacques Audiard goes crazy, and brings to the screen a pop opera that never loses its...
Jack Salvadori
May 19, 20242 min read


Cannes #77 - "Kinds of Kindness" Review
After the uber-success of Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos delivers his second film of the year, Kinds of Kindness. In this minor work, the...
Jack Salvadori
May 19, 20242 min read


Cannes #77 - "Megalopolis" Review
I believed in America. And I believed in New Hollywood, helmed by Francis Ford Coppola. Thus, it particularly saddens me that...
Jack Salvadori
May 17, 20243 min read


Cannes #77 - "Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga" Review
George Miller takes us back to his iconic dystopian, post-apocalyptic Australian Wasteland in a reverse journey to discover the origins...
Jack Salvadori
May 16, 20242 min read


Cannes #77 - "The Second Act" Review
Cannes-cel culture. An unsettling grey and rainy weather anticipated the lukewarm reception of the 76th edition of the most prestigious...
Jack Salvadori
May 15, 20242 min read


2023 BEST FILMS - Top 10
As the curtain falls on another remarkable year in cinema, it's time to reflect on the filmmaking achievements that lingered on our minds...
Jack Salvadori
Dec 25, 20238 min read


Venice #80 - Riūichi Sakamoto | Opus
Play it again, Ryūichi. All it takes is a dark room, silence, followed by the right music, to properly lose ourselves, wandering in our...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 7, 20232 min read


Venice #80 - Coup de Chance
All good things must come to an end. Even the best ones - the ones we’re so used to that they end up becoming ordinary elements in our...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 6, 20232 min read


Venice #80 - The Killer
David Fincher takes us back to his comfort zone: serial killers. Diametrically opposite to Zodiac, where we never really even see the...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 5, 20231 min read


Venice #80 - Menus Plaisirs, Les Troisgros
An amusing comedy can make us laugh, a compelling drama might even move us. Well, Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary makes us feel…...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 4, 20232 min read


Venice #80 - Poor Things
Yorgos Lanthimos is back. And no, you haven’t seen anything like this before. Poor Things, but lucky us. With The Favourite, the Greek...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 2, 20232 min read


Venice #80 - El Conde
It got me since the first poster was released a year ago - since I saw the pale silhouette of Augusto Pinochet looking down over a dark...
Jack Salvadori
Sep 2, 20232 min read
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