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August 22, 2025 Historical Perspective 🔭 Amy Taubin on My Undesirable Friends, Jessica Kiang on Locarno 2025, Miguel Gomes and Alexandre Koberidze on Dry Leaf and Grand Tour, and more View in browser   |   filmcomment.com August 22, 2025 WEBSITE   |   PODCAST   |   LATEST Dear Readers, Every August brings with it sweltering weather, a looming sense of the end to summer fun (along with hints of the cinematic joys of the rapidly approaching festival season), and reports from Film Comment on the Locarno Film Festival, which wrapped up on August 16. This year, Jessica Kiang offers an overview of the Swiss fest, reporting on some of the buzzier titles, many of which we'll no doubt be saying more about in the months to come. For Jessica, who has a family connection to the region, this year's lineup was touched with a certain amount of nostalgia, and was filled with works that explored ideas about memory, decay, and place, including the Georgian direc... read