Screening at Venice: May el-Toukhy’s ‘Woman Unknown’
The only film by a solo woman director in this year's Venice competition, it shoulders the burden of representing a feminine point of view, whether it wants to or not.
3-Star Movies
Screening at Venice: Nicolas Pariser’s ‘One Minute to Midnight’
Its self-reflexivity reveals a riveting feminist tome about the winds of cultural change and the difficulty of de-centering yourself from your own story.
Screening at Venice: Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s ‘The Burning Giants’
The movie takes wildly unexpected turns, but all of these are in service of an extensive dramatic exploration of the ways in which religion, political demonization and economic exploitation become intrinsically linked.
