Venice #5: Blonde, Athena, Beyond the Wall, The Happiest Man in the World, Casa Susanna, with Jonathan Romney
Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw. I’m your host, Nicolas Rapold. As this year’s action-packed Venice Film Festival draws nearer to the end, I return to the airwaves with veteran critic Jonathan Romney. We discuss the much-anticipated Marilyn Monroe picture Blonde, from director Andrew Dominik, starring Ana de Armas; Romain Gavras’s Athena; Beyond the Wall, from Iran’s Vahid Jalilvand; Teona Strugar Mitevska’s The Happiest Man in the World; and Sebastien Lifshitz’s documentary Casa Susanna.
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Music: “Tomorrow’s Forecast” by The Minarets, courtesy of The Minarets
Photo by Steve Snodgrass
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