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Venice Three

Make or break: guests Christina Newland and Jay Weissberg discuss premieres from Olivier Assayas, Pietro Marcello, Pablo Larraín, Roy Andersson, and more

In our third and final dispatch from the Venice Film Festival, FC Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold is joined by Jay Weissberg, film critic for Variety, and Christina Newland, writer for Sight & Sound and Little White Lies. They discuss a packed line-up of films: Olivier Assayas’s Wasp Network, Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden, David Michôd’s The King, Pablo Larraín’s Ema, Roy Andersson’s About Endlessness, and some picks from the festival’s sidebar sections.

This story is part of the September-October 2019 issue of Film Comment.

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