Official screening

  • friday, 30 august 2024
Sala Grande
19:00

Awards

COPPA VOLPI BEST ACTRESS
by Halina Reijn
with Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde, Esther McGregor

(2024, USA, 114')

A clandestine affair exposes power dynamics capable of overturning everything and everyone. Romy is the CEO of a major company, resolute and authoritative at work, determined to assert her power at every opportunity. The arrival of a young and charismatic intern disrupts both her professional and personal equilibrium, leading her to risk it all.

by Davide Carbone
Halina Reijn

Halina Reijn (Amsterdam, 1975), who trained in theater studies in Groningen and Maastricht, has previously worked as an actress in films such as Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book (2006), Bryan Singer’s Valkyrie (2008), and Peter Greenaway’s Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012). Her directorial debut in 2019, Instinct, was the Dutch submission for Best International Feature Film at the Oscars.

INTERNATIONAL CRITICS

SCREEN
INTERNATIONAL
2.5/5
THE HOLLYWOOD
REPORTER
3.5/5
THE FILM
VERDICT
4.5/5
Fabre
Le Monde
4/5
BEN CROLL
THE WRAP
3/5
JONATHAN ROMNEY
THE OBSERVER
3.5/5
TOMMASO KOCH
EL PAIS
3.5/5
Jorge L. Ramos
EXPRESSO
2.5/5
BARBARA HOLLENDER
rzeczpospolita
3.5/5
Daniel Kothenschulte
FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU
2/5

3.25

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