A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra — Jacqueline Lentzou [Venice ’26 Review]

Because of its ability to replicate life, the cinema has long been a preferred medium for exploring the meaning of death. People die in films with numbing regularity. There are entire genres of filmmaking that are essentially defined by the number of bodies they pile up before the viewer. But it is a much rarer thing for a film to examine the thin membrane between life and death, or to treat the medium itself as a tool for negotiating that...