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Venice International Film Festival 2019
Théo Court’s masterful ‘Blanco en Blanco’ is a bright point in a largely lacklustre line-up
The promise and politics of livestreaming in ‘Present.Perfect.’ and ‘Jawline’
Girls, interrupted: Sophie Hyde’s ‘Animals’
This untamed depiction of female friendship moves beyond basic binaries of freedom and control
‘The Godmother’ by Hannelore Cayre
A sardonic French bestseller about a godmother, in the organised crime sense of the word
‘Here Until August’ by Josephine Rowe
The Australian author’s second short-story collection focuses on the precipice of change rather than its culmination
Director Jeffrey Walker blends ripe melodrama and Gothic thriller in his TV series about three wayward nuns
Tasmanian torments: Jennifer Kent’s ‘The Nightingale’
The Babadook director talks about the necessity of violence in her colonial drama
How can we be transformed by music if online platforms mean we will always remain ourselves?
Our largest sexual organ: Amee Baird’s ‘Sex in the Brain’
We know surprisingly little about how our brains orchestrate our sex lives
Jane Austen as reviewed by men on Goodreads