Posted on August 29, 2019
Read the coverage at Film Companion (links below)…
1: BOMBAY ROSE
2: AD ASTRA
3: JOKER
4: Roman Polanski’s J’ACCUSE, plus VERDICT
5: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s CHOLA
6. EMA / MADRE / SOLE
7. Interview with GITANJALI RAO and DEBORAH SATHE
8. Martin Scorsese’s NEW YORK, NEW YORK, plus THE PAINTED BIRD and BABYTEETH
9. Interview with SANAL KUMAR SASIDHARAN
10. Steven Soderbergh’s THE LAUNDROMAT, and other films
11. WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS and other films
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Baradwaj Rangan 
brangan
August 29, 2019
Instead of cluttering up the site, I am pasting all Venice-related links on this page.
Beginning with this review of BOMBAY ROSE:
https://www.filmcompanion.in/venice-international-fim-festival-2019-bombay-rose-movie-review-baradwaj-rangan/amp/
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Ramit
August 29, 2019
Watched Gitanjali Rao’s Printed Rainbow. Didn’t quite like the story. The craft was solid though. Found the trailer of True Love Story quite evocative. Rousing music, sensuous visuals. Would love to watch Bombay Rose in theatre.
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brangan
August 30, 2019
AD ASTRA
https://www.filmcompanion.in/venice-international-film-festival-2019-ad-astra-movie-review-baradwaj-rangan/
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Sutheesh Kumar
August 31, 2019
BR,
A kind request, please don’t bury your new posts among the comments. We don’t care if the site gets cluttered, your labour of love deserves better.
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brangan
August 31, 2019
Haha, Sutheesh. These pieces have a limited readership, and those who want to read will find it anyway.
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brangan
August 31, 2019
JOKER
https://www.filmcompanion.in/joker-movie-review-venice-international-film-festival-2019-joaquin-phoenix-baradwaj-rangan/
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Vikram s
September 1, 2019
Keep em coming BR, whether you hide the links in the comments section or create a new page for each review, I am going to be reading them. Thank you 🙂
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krishikari
September 1, 2019
Bombay Rose sounds delicious. Hope it will have an international release. Its time animation got masalafied.
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brangan
September 1, 2019
krishikari: BOMBAY ROSE is anything but a masala movie 🙂
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shaviswa
September 1, 2019
Every time you go on these Cannes, Venice etc trips, this site gets pretty dull. I don’t know about others but I am not very interested in international cinema. And more am I keen to know how Indian films do at these festivals. So I just have to wait for you to return to desh and start ripping apart our Desi films. 🙂
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Macaulay Perapulla
September 1, 2019
Glad you are doing these in-depth reviews, instead of those earlier film festival highlight episodes. Thankfully you seem to be breathing in, while writing these. Your earlier Film Festival Updates seemed often rushed, and one got the sense that you are going through too much to breathe and soak it in. I’ll catch up with Joker perhaps when we lesser mortals get a chance to see it.
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Sutheesh Kumar
September 1, 2019
My grouses were gone, replaced by gooseflesh. Or maybe we should say, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes…
Wow! The birdplay(sorry the word play) is so exquisite that it soars really high.
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vinjk
September 2, 2019
I agree with shaviswa that the blog gets dull. Not that I’m not interested in international cinema, just that these movies are watched only by BR and hence, not much of discussion happens around them.
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brangan
September 2, 2019
Well, you can still READ these pieces to get an idea of what’s out there 😛
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brangan
September 2, 2019
4: Roman Polanski’s J’ACCUSE, plus VERDICT
https://www.filmcompanion.in/venice-international-film-festival-2019-roman-polanksi-jaccuse-movie-review-baradwaj-rangan/
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Saket
September 3, 2019
BR, have you not seen Sacred Games 2?
I presume you haven’t…because I can’t fathom how one can sit still after watching it?
It’s certainly the best writing I’ve come across in recent times. Definitely needs your review!
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brangan
September 3, 2019
5: Sanal Kumar Sasidharan’s CHOLA
https://www.filmcompanion.in/venice-international-film-festival-2019-chola-shape-of-water-movie-review-sanal-kumar-sasidharan-baradwaj-rangan
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krishikari
September 3, 2019
BR “BOMBAY ROSE is anything but a masala movie ”
Ah too bad, an animated masala movie would be great. Masala or not, I still want to see it, from your review, it sounds amazing.
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Gokulakrishnan Ravikularaman
September 4, 2019
Without having watched J’accuse, though based on your review it seems fascinating, i am curious about something BR.
It is indeed valid to separate the personal life of artist and the art they create and to experience it, but what if the art is in coherence with his personal life and makes it difficult to not indulge the perspectives of his past. Obviously direction and making coming from an auteur like Polanski can be intriguing at any given day and from your review, it seems thats what been the case. Still, whats your take on that.
I also came to know it received standing ovation, which is quite surprising. Does the recent woke acquisition of’ Hollywood’ has something to do with it and influenced the critics? 😛
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brangan
September 4, 2019
6. EMA / MADRE / SOLE
https://www.filmcompanion.in/venice-international-film-festival-2019-sole-movie-review-madre-baradwaj-rangan
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brangan
September 4, 2019
7. Interview with GITANJALI RAO and DEBORAH SATHE
https://www.filmcompanion.in/gitanjali-rao-interview-bombay-rose-venice-international-film-festival-2019-baradwaj-rangan
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