Sally Hawkins in a still from The Shape of Water, the Golden Lion winner at the 2017 Venice film festival. Sally Hawkins in a still from The Shape of Water, the Golden Lion winner at the 2017 Venice film festival.
Sally Hawkins in a still from The Shape of Water, the Golden Lion winner at the 2017 Venice film festival.
Culture /  Film & TV

Trump’s pernicious influence hung over Venice film festival, the most political in decades; John Woo thriller was a change of pace

With Ai Weiwei’s mesmerising refugee documentary, Guillermo Del Toro’s cold war isolationism, a Silver Lion winner on absurdity of war, and entries dealing with racist American police and suburbanites, prison-set chiller was light relief

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James Mottram

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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Sally Hawkins in a still from The Shape of Water, the Golden Lion winner at the 2017 Venice film festival. Sally Hawkins in a still from The Shape of Water, the Golden Lion winner at the 2017 Venice film festival.
Sally Hawkins in a still from The Shape of Water, the Golden Lion winner at the 2017 Venice film festival.
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