MICHAEL RODDY

Articles by MICHAEL RODDY

Classical music meets soccer in 'Last Hammer Blow' at Venice

A French film that improbably links soccer and classical music in a tale of a sports-mad teenage boy living in poverty with his dying mother and who meets his estranged conductor father for the first time charmed the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday.

Sep 04, 2014 10:52 AM EDT

Drama of mother starving baby grips Venice fest

A film portraying New York City mother who starves her baby because she thinks he is saint-like and food contains impurities has caused a stir at the Venice Film Festival for its switch from light romance to painful psychosis.

Sep 02, 2014 11:17 AM EDT