Author Boyd van Hoeij

Boyd van Hoeij

Boyd van Hoeij has worked in the film industry for over 20 years and is now based in Luxembourg. He was a contributing critic for U.S. trade paper Variety before moving to The Hollywood Reporter in 2013. Since September 2021, he's been a Senior Critic of the all-review web destination The Film Verdict. He also regularly contributes to De Filmkrant (Netherlands) and is the recipient of the 2020-21 Plume d’Or, awarded by the Union of French Cinema Journalists for excellence in film writing. Besides criticism, van Hoeij is also active in funding and programming. Since 2018, he has been the President of the Selection Committee of the Luxembourg Film Fund, which awards development and production support, as well as Luxembourg City Film Festival’s Curator at Large. He also teaches film grammar workshops and dissects classics at festivals around the world and has been a jury member at festivals including Cannes, Venice, Sydney, Mar del Plata, Hong Kong, Thessaloniki and Palm Springs.

Il Deserto Rosso (Red Desert, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964)

Boyd van Hoeij

May 2022

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Michelangelo Antonioni’s Il deserto rosso (Red Desert, 1964) was the Italian filmmaker’s first feature in colour. This might seem like a major change for the director known for what had become his stylistic sig...