Faith healer: director Shannon Murphy's Venice competition debut turns the story of a stricken teenager and her wild paramour into something fresh and bright
Make or break: guests Christina Newland and Jay Weissberg discuss premieres from Olivier Assayas, Pietro Marcello, Pablo Larraín, Roy Andersson, and more
To the moon and back: Jonathan Romney joins to discuss Ad Astra, An Officer and a Spy, Marriage Story, and other hotly awaited (and debated) Venice premieres
Courtroom drama: Roman Polanski's latest film, a Venice world premiere, surehandedly recounts the Dreyfus Affair and its story of a French army captain's anti-Semitic persecution
Looking back: Lucio Castro’s End of the Century is a temporally unexpected work in which possible pasts and potential futures intermingle to create an unstable now
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