“Company,” a gothic thriller directed by Casey Affleck, debuted at Venice Film Festival on Tuesday night to a 4-minute standing ovation. Affleck and star Nick Nolte looked visibly moved as cast members including Indiana Affleck,

The actor and director shares his two sons, 22 and 18, with ex-wife, Summer Phoenix

Casey Affleck’s ‘Company’ earned a 4.5-minute ovation after its Venice Film Festival world premiere. Its cast includes Nick Nolte, Ben Mendelsohn and others.

Stories are nested within stories to steadily diminishing returns in "Company," a perversely ponderous exercise in hide-the-genre that takes more than an hour to reveal what its game really is. Gathering little tension ahead of a ludicrous twist - one that puts proceedings in a new light while adding no great urgency to them -

Casey Affleck directs a film made up of three different narratives in Company, but despite a great ending, the journey getting there is laborious.

Oscar winner Casey Affleck, brother of Ben Affleck, has revealed that the actors lost both parents this year. The mother of the Academy Award winners, Chris Anne Affleck, died after a battle with pancreatic cancer in June at age 83,