… a blood-splattered, limb-lopping good time, albeit one that never quite feels revelatory.
The 80th Venice Film Festival has wrapped and without many of the stars on hand to lighten up proceedings, it was up to the films to make their mark.
The Chilean director’s latest, El Conde (The Count), is “grotesque, it’s bloody, it’s absurd”, but he also hopes that it’s allegorical for the 1970s/’80s dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.
The Australian filmmaker who dropped everything and headed for Hollywood, has now directed stylish genre picture The Invitation, released by Sony Pictures.
Why have people forgotten about Byzantium, the feminist vampire movie we all deserved?