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‘Back to Buenos Aires’ Review: Marco Bechis’ Return to the Screen Covers Similar Ground to Earlier Works but is Only Fitfully Effective (opens the original)
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In this Venice competition entry, an Italian doctor is nearly paralyzed by guilt and trauma when he grudgingly returns to Argentina to testify about his incarceration during the dictatorship. The return of Marco Bechis to filmmaking after 10 years is a welcome surprise, and the terrain he covers in “Back to Buenos Aires” is a familiar one for the veteran Chilean-Italian director who himself was caught up in the nightmare of Argentina’s military dictatorship. Set in the present, with frequent fla
‘One Minute to Midnight’ Review: A Stellar Cast Deliver Interesting but Overly Preachy Disquisitions on the Changing Nature of Male-Female Relations (opens the original)
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Melvil Poupaud is a man with few ambitions left who connects with former friends and lovers to understand his relationships with women and the changing dynamic between past and present. Nicolas Pariser makes solid, philosophically absorbed films — like “The Great Game” and “Alice and the Mayor” — that make no apologies for engaging with social and political trends. Classically directed and always well-cast, they appeal to audiences, specifically French and Francophile ones, who like listening to
‘Naza’ Review: Two of the ‘No Other Land’ Filmmakers Deliver a More Devastating Exposé of Israeli Genocidal Policy, This Time in Gaza (opens the original)
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Composed of nighttime rooftop interviews with disguised Israeli soldiers, the documentary has those committing war crimes explain their orders and the methods by which they’re carried out. The irksome controversy over “No Other Land” upon winning both the Berlinale Documentary prize and the Academy Award was never really about the film. It was hardly the first strong documentary to call attention to Israel’s official policy of ethnic cleansing, and there were no revelations to be had. But coming
‘The Fire Within You’ Review: An Insufferable Christmas Eve Family Drama in Which the Corrosive Rants Are as Noxious as the Dyspeptic Images (opens the original)
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A mother from hell teeters around with a glass in hand pouring bile on everyone in reach, but because she’s the “mamma,” Eduardo De Angelis mistakenly believes she deserves our sympathy. Let’s hope there was a giant extractor fan on the set of “The Fire Within You,” because the stench of burnt oil must have been overwhelming. It’s not only food that gets blistered in Edoardo De Angelis’ overwrought screaming match, which makes one envious of the wax Odysseus had handy to plug up his sailors’ ear
‘A Common Story’ Review: A Stunningly Played Study of a Couple Whose Inability to Articulate Their Emotions Drives Them Apart (opens the original)
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Actor-turned-director Anna Foglietta guides Alba Rohrwacher and Guido Caprino through the spaces between words in this standout from Venice's Orizzonti sidebar. Far too often, relationship dramas devolve into screaming matches with a predictable crescendo that exhausts both actors and audiences: They’re using words, but since few writers have the caustic wit of Edward Albee, what they say is more tiresome than trenchant. Perhaps because debuting director Anna Foglietta is first an actor, she und
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