FT SeriesVenice Film Festival 2020From Tilda Swinton in Pedro Almodóvar’s latest movie to a French Bill & Ted having an adventure with a giant insect, we review this year’s highlights© Getty Tilda Swinton in Almodóvar’s Human Voice, plus Apples and Final AccountThree films early on at the Venice Film Festival encompass emotional breakdown, memory loss and Nazi guiltThe Disciple — a finely tuned tale of devotion and doubt A Mumbai singer struggles with musical scales and vices in this Venice Film Festival competition entryThe World to Come — female bonding on the US frontierKatherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby and Casey Affleck star in a 19th-century-set tale of two women in search of escapeThe Duke — Jim Broadbent steals the show in Ealing-style heist comedy A truth-based story told with droll dialogue makes for a warm and witty crowd-pleaserFrench Bill & Ted befriend a giant fly in MandibulesQuentin Dupieux’s film may be the silliest movie at the Venice Film Festival but it’s also the funniestMainstream — Gia Coppola’s journey into the heart of online darkness Andrew Garfield scales the heights of obnoxiousness as an anti-internet rebel seduced by YouTube stardom
