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Venice Review: Florian Zeller’s Bunker Is Bad Melodrama and Curiously Anti-Art

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By Rory Sean O'Connor
| The Film Stage
The most interesting thing about Bunker is a moment of visual repetition. Early on, a husband and wife, Miguel (Javier Bardem) and Julia (Penélope Cruz), snicker amongst themselves, as lovers do, at an art opening, amused at three abstract paintings that are uniformly black—a process, the Captain Jack Sparrow-styled curator explains, that involved covering already-painted still lives.
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Venice Review: Hirokazu Koreeda Delivers One of His Best Films with Look Back

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By Rory Sean O'Connor
| The Film Stage
After a period marked by ambition and drift in his work since winning the Palme d’Or for Shoplifters in 2018, Hirokazu Koreeda has returned to a more intimate kind of cinema for his latest film Look Back, a crystal-clear tale about friendship and creativity that feels closer to the lineage of Céline Sciamma’s Petite Maman.
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Venice Review: Possible Love Marks a Triumphant Return for Lee Chang-dong

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By Rory Sean O'Connor
| The Film Stage
In a year of unknown quantities at the Venice Film Festival, Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love has delivered the triumph for which fans of the elusive director had been hoping. Lee’s first feature since Burning, a modern masterpiece that blew away the competition in Cannes eight years ago, is another novelistic gem, the kind of richly detailed and intricately scripted yarn in which alluring themes like class, sex, and sociology are always on the table to be picked at.
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