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Giovanni Marchini Camia

Interview: Alain Guiraudie on Misericordia

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
September 16, 2024
Midnight confessions: the novelist and filmmaker discusses his new noir comedy, which follows a young man who returns to his hometown in the French countryside and finds himself embroiled in an unpredictable (and increasingly dangerous) game of lust

Doclisboa 2022: Pleasure and Prohibition

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
October 24, 2022
Popular fictions: a retrospective reassesses the provocative and vibrantly imaginative films of Brazilian auteur Carlos Reichenbach

Venice 2021: Feedback Loop

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
September 13, 2021
Speed kills: there was much to recommend from the under-the-radar sections this year, including Shen Kong, El gran movimiento, and more

Set Diary: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, pt. 6

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 25, 2020
Day after day: the last in a series of reports from the set of the Thai filmmaker’s forthcoming feature

Set Diary: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, pt. 5

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 24, 2020
Day after day: reports from the set of the Thai filmmaker’s highly anticipated forthcoming feature

Set Diary: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, pt. 4

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 21, 2020
Day after day: reports from the set of the Thai filmmaker’s highly anticipated forthcoming feature

Set Diary: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, pt. 3

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 20, 2020
Day after day: a series of reports from the set of the Thai filmmaker’s highly anticipated forthcoming feature

Set Diary: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, pt. 2

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 19, 2020
Day after day: a series of reports from the set of the Thai filmmaker’s highly anticipated forthcoming feature

Set Diary: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria, pt. 1

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 18, 2020
Day to day: revisit our critic’s reports from the set of the Thai filmmaker’s Cannes sensation

Hot Set: Magical Thinking

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
March 23, 2015
Apichatpong Weerasethakul conjures bittersweet dreams from the stuff of life

Festivals: Berlin Blog #3

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 17, 2014
Some final thoughts on the standouts of Berlinale 2014, including Richard Linklater's Boyhood, 12 years in the making

Festivals: Berlin Blog #2

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 13, 2014
The latest from Tsai Ming-liang and more

Festivals: Berlin Blog #1

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 10, 2014
The glories of Snowpiercer uncut, and the dangers of high-adrenaline realism in Northern Ireland thriller '71

Festivals: Karlovy Vary

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
July 24, 2013
The venerable Czech festival was popular as ever, but was it all worth seeing?

Rep Diary: Maine-Océan

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
May 10, 2013
Overlooked Nouvelle Vague director Jacques Rozier builds a Tower of Babel by the sea in this forgotten 1985 film

Berlin Diary #10

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 18, 2013
Excavating the gems from Berlin's Panorama and Forum competitions

Berlin Diary #9

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 18, 2013
Hong Sang Soo's Nobody's Daughter Haewon and Emmanuelle Bercot’s Catherine Deneuve–powered On My Way can't stop talking but don't say much

Berlin Diary #8

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 15, 2013
Sit up straight, tuck in your shirt: Harmony Lessons, the first feature from Kazakh director Emir Gaigazin, deserves your full attention

Berlin Diary #7

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 15, 2013
Picking through the hype of Danis Tanovic's lackluster latest and finding a contender for the Golden Bear

Berlin Diary #6

By Giovanni Marchini Camia
February 14, 2013
A first look at Jafar Panahi's Closed Curtain and Juliette Binoche in Bruno Dumont's Camille Claudel 1915