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Hundreds of filmmakers urge Venice Film Festival to take a stronger stand on Gaza

A group of international filmmakers are urging the Venice Film Festival, which starts this week, “to be more courageous and clear in condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”

Euronews

Emmanuelle review – dismal remake of 1974 French erotic film

Noémie Merlant and Will Sharpe star in Audrey Diwan’s life-sapping romp

The Guardian - UK

Director Audrey Diwan: ‘I understand why remaking Emmanuelle is dangerous... but let them shout, I don’t care’

The award-winning director on taking on the X-rated film that still carries cultural baggage and making the film ‘I probably needed as a woman’

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Emmanuelle review – 70s odyssey of saucy self awakening gets a Hong Kong-set makeover

Noémie Merlant, Naomi Watts and Will Sharpe languish in a luxurious hotel in Audrey Diwan’s self-conscious remake of the classic French softcore drama

The Guardian - UK

Stranger Things and White Lotus star's erotic drama Emmanuelle teases first look

Jamie Campbell Bower, Will Sharpe, and Noémie Merlant are set to front Audrey Diwan's follow-up to Happening

Total Film

Happening to Broker: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Audrey Diwan’s compelling pregnancy drama has a newfound relevance after the overturning of Roe v Wade. Plus a heartwarming, quirky Korean adoption tale

The Guardian - UK

‘If it’s not a risk… it’s nothing’: Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux on her unapologetic career

The French writer transforms her own life into uncompromising autofiction. With new translations, a film, and unwavering activism, the 82-year-old is living life to the full

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Why 'Tár' deserves several Oscars, including best picture

LOS ANGELES — Final voting for the Oscars is now underway; the results will be unveiled on March 12. Not being a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences (an ideal arrangement for all involved), I don't get a ballot, though if I did, here's how I…

Los Angeles Times

Oscars 2023: 10 women directors deserving attention

Shortly after the Golden Globes nominations were announced earlier this month, the advocacy group Women in Film took to social media, decrying the "shocking" omission of critically acclaimed female directors, citing Sarah Polley ("Women Talking"), Gina Prince-Bythewood ("The Woman King"), Chinonye Chukwu ("Till") and Maria Schrader ("She Said").

Los Angeles Times

Cate Blanchett’s Tár receives standing ovation – here are Venice Film Festival’s other big moments

As director Todd Field tackles cancel-culture, we look at the other big moments in Venice’s recent history

Evening Standard

Venice film festival 2022: Line-up, attendees and everything else there is to know

This year’s festival promises major star-power, but no blockbusters

Evening Standard

US actress Julianne Moore to preside over jury at Venice Film Festival

Julianne Moore will be jury president for the 2022 Venice Film Festival in September, organisers have said.

Radio France Internationale

Julianne Moore to Lead Venice Film Festival Jury This Fall

Julianne Moore has been selected to serve as president of the main competition jury for the Venice International Film Festival this year, festival director Alberto Barbera announced Friday. The Oscar-winning actor will preside over a jury that includes French director Audrey Diwan, whose film “Happening” won the Golden Lion last…

Asharq Al-Awsat

The best movies of 2022 (so far). And where to find them

The film critic's year-end list of favorites has always struck me as a provisional undertaking at best, a flawed but essential attempt to bring some coherent framing to a year's worth of cinematic plenty. Any honest list, however comprehensive its sweep or authoritative its posture, is made in the full…

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Timely and urgent, 'Happening' is a film that speaks to today's abortion debate

A 23-year-old literature student discovers she's pregnant after a fling. This movie, based on Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, traces her desperate attempt to get an abortion in 1963 France.

Los Angeles Times

Movie review: The tense French abortion drama ‘Happening’ is the movie you need to see right now

“I’ll manage.” We hear those words a lot from Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei), the quietly determined 23-year-old who grounds every scene of the tense, harrowing French drama “Happening.” She’s used to taking care of herself, whether she’s in a literature class, where she dissects a poem with ease, or on a…

Los Angeles Times

How French drama 'Happening' centers the dangerous stakes of illegal abortion

The new film "Happening" is set in 1963 and yet it suddenly feels like a possible window into the future.

Tribune News Service

Movie review: 'Happening' shows past (and maybe future) of abortion

Audrey Diwan’s masterly second feature, “Happening,” is the story of a young woman trying to save her own life; a harrowing, tense and utterly riveting survival story. The question of whether or not our young heroine, Anne (Anamaria Vartolomei), racing against the clock, will make it out with her future…

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The Independent UK

Powerful French abortion drama ‘Happening’ lands in US

When writer-director Audrey Diwan first read Annie Ernaux's memoir about being a 23-year-old college student seeking to end an unwanted pregnancy at a time when it was illegal to do so in France, she didn't see a drama, she saw a suspenseful thriller

The Guardian - UK

Happening review: unflinching abortion drama that draws you in

The audience really feels the trauma of a young student’s hard choices in 1960s France in Audrey Diwan’s compelling Venice winner

Evening Standard

Happening movie review: Sublime, in the truest sense of the word

Director Audrey Diwan loves a long shot - but doesn’t waste a single second of our time in this adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s book

The Guardian - UK

‘It plunged me back to waiting for a period’: Annie Ernaux and Audrey Diwan on abortion film Happening

An award-winning new drama tells of a young woman’s quest for an illegal abortion in 1960s France. Its director and the writer on whose autobiography it is based explain why the subject is still important

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