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Venice Film Festival
Curator’s Pick: “The Legend of the Holy Drinker”
Steve Dollar
August 11, 2023
A besotted dream of a very clean tramp, THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY DRINKER is also a throwback to a particular kind of half-logy, umber-infused, myth-laden European arthouse cinema layered thick with obscure portents and kept aloft with lyrical fantasy interludes. It’s so old-fashioned that it’s practically new again.
Black Venus (2010)
Fandor Staff
September 24, 2021
Saartjie Baartman was taken from her South African home as a 21-year-old and shipped to Georgian London, where she would be caged and exhibited as …