While our colleagues in Canada are currently in the thick of TIFF madness and doing God's work there (here's our ever-expanding TIFF coverage link), as a Euro-dwelling Venice attendee, the last big festival of 2015 is now a wrap. Film-wise, it was a peculiar year, with quite a few of the most buzzed titles not quite measuring up to expectation, but as ever there was gold in 'them thar hills', if perhaps rather less of it in the form of 13 ½ inch-tall statuettes given out in February. There are still a few pieces to come to complete our overall coverage of the festival, but for now here's my take on the highlights and lowlights of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival.
Best
5. "A War"
I'm not at all sure why Tobias Lindholm's well-received last film, the tense, gripping "A Hijacking" which also premiered in Venice, did not buy him a promotion out of the Horizons sidebar and into the main competition this time out. "A War" again debuted in...
