An avalanche of stars and works that promise to shake the spectators are in the menu this week of the 82nd Mostra, one of the largest film festivals in the world. As of Wednesday, the big names of the seventh art meeting at the Huppee Seaside resort in Venice.
This edition signs the return of Americans Gus van Sant and Kathryn Bigelow, who had not fired anything for several years, and from the Chan-Wook South Korean Park, after twenty years of absence at the festival.
Twenty -one films are in the race to succeed The next room By Pedro Almodovar, he works at the end of the life that went last year with the Golden Lion, the highest prize.
“Places of discussion”
Two films must echo the best news: The magician du KremlinOlivier Assayas, adaptation of a successful novel about a nearby advisor to Vladimir Putin (with Jude Law in the role of the Kremlin teacher), and Rajab’s voice on the backof Kaouther Franco-Tunisian Ben Hania, who had published the same remarkable Olffa girls in 2023.
Rajab’s voice on the back It promises to have “a strong impact on the public,” according to the artistic director of the Festival, Alberto Barbera, who was very moved when the selection was announced at the end of July. “I hope there is no controversy,” he added.
The film returns to death in early 2024 in Gaza, from a Palestinian girl who “tried to flee with her family during an Israeli attack” and suggests the original emergency calls recordings.
“The Venice Biennale and the Venice International Film Festival have always been, in their history, places of open and sensitive discussion about all the most urgent questions of society and the world,” said Mostra, mentioning this film.
She responded to an open letter started on Saturday by Italian artists asking to take a position and “condemn” the war in the Gaza Strip, launched after the unprecedented attack in Hamas in Israel on October 7, 2023.
Hollywood in force
Among the other expected films are an adaptation of François Ozon of the novel Foreign Albert Camus and Overwhelming machineWith Dwayne Johnson, “The Rock”, fighting MMA. A roles cut for Oscar, with physical transformation at the end.
“You have, on paper, one of the best Venice festivals for years. It’s nothing,” said Hollywood Reporter Review. Often considered a launch ramp for the US statuettes, the Mostra offers a great place for the Hollywood cinema and transmission platforms, unlike its Cannes competitor that defends cinema in cinemas.
Three Netflix films contribute to The Golden Lion: Frankenstein By Guillermo del Toro, with Oscar Isaac, A dynamite house By Kathryn Bigelow, a thriller in the White House, and Jay Kelly Of Noah Baumbach, with George Clooney playing an actor in crisis.
One of the most prominent aspects will be the arrival of Julia Roberts per Lido. The star will make its debut in Venice in After hunting by Luca Guadagnino (excluding competition), in a case of sexual assault in an American university.
Another expected collaboration: Emma Stone’s with Lanthimos Yorgos for Bugoniaafter the success of Poor creatures that an Oscar had earned them and the golden lion respectively in Venice.
Highlights
The jury will be chaired by US director Alexander Payne (Oblique) and will return your record on September 6. The festival will also pay tribute to Kim Novak, an actress linked forever with Cold sweats (Vertigo) By Alfred Hitchcock, as well as Gus van Sant, who will come to present his latest film, Dead man wire.
Italy will be at the Care Center on Wednesday during the Opening Night with The Grazia By Paolo Sorrentino, with his favorite actor Toni Servillo.
The festivities will end with the large budget movie. Dog 51A dystopia with the French actress Adèle exarchopoulos.
Among the 21 films that compete in the Golden Lion, here are the most anticipated:
The magician du Kremlin, Olivier Assayas
An adaptation of Giuliano da Empoli sales success, who narrates the rise to the power of Vladimir Putin, from the point of view of one of his closest advisors. Jude Law embodies the strong man of Kremlin on the screen.
A dynamite house, from Kathryn Bigelow
The director of Desatinists He had not presented a film since 2017. The one who told Bin Laden hunting in Zero Dark Thirty Hiding officials of the White House officials faced an imminent threat of nuclear attack.
The crushing machineBy Benny Safdie
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson plays a MMA fighter who fights with his addictions, a “custom paper” for the former fighter who has become Hollywood Star.
The voice of Hind Rajabof Kaouther Ben Hania
This drama reconstitutes the murder of a six -year -old Palestinian, killed by Israeli troops in Gaza in January 2024, for one of the most political films of the festival.
Ann Lee’s Testamentof Mona Fastvold
A musical film about the destiny of Ann Lee, a religious chief of a radical sect, the Shakers, established in the United States in the 18th century. The film is directed by Mona Fastvold, co-series of The brutalist Brady Corbet, associated with this project.
Frankenstein, By Guillermo del Toro
An updated version on a large budget of the myth of the creature of Dr. Frankenstein, directed by Mexican director Guillermo del Toro, the fantastic teacher.
Jay Kelly, of Noah Baumbach
A comedy co -written by Noah Baumbach and his wife Greta Gerwig, with the star of Méga George Clooney at the head of the Mega, who embodies an actor in the middle of an existential crisis.
Bugoniaof yorgos lanthimos
The new collaboration between the Greek director and Emma Stone, who allowed the actress to win an Oscar for Poor creaturesGolden Lion in Venice in 2023.
There is no other optionFrom Park Chan-Wook
The South Korean director returns to Venice with a thriller adapted from the novel The bladeby Donald Westlake, already organized by Costa-Gavras in 2005.
The foreigner, By François Ozon
An ambitious adaptation of Albert Camus’s novel, one of the most translated French books and sold in the world, filmed in black and white, with neighbor Benjamin in the main role.
Nuhai (girl), Shu qi
The Taiwanesa Shu Qi superstar, seen in the Hou Hsiao-Hsien films, presents her first film as director, a story of women in several generations.
Documentary side
The German director, Werner Herzog, will present his latest film, Ghost elephantsin the steps of a herd of ghost elephants in the jungles of Angola. At 82, the one who alternates between fiction and documentary films will receive a gold lion throughout his career during the opening ceremony.
The portrait of the journalist Seymour Hersh, which is the source of revelations of numerous scandals that cover the US army, is also expected anxiously. Laura Poitras, awarded in 2022 in Venice for her documentary about photographer Nan Goldin against the opioid industry, is behind the camera.
Sofia Coppola will present a documentary about her friend, fashion designer, Marc Jacobs, while director Mike Figgis will show behind the scene of Megalopolis By Francis Ford Coppola, for which he invested $ 120 million in his pocket. Presented in Cannes in 2024, the film deeply divided, some see it as a “modern masterpiece” or a “disaster”.
Finally, on the musical side, a documentary will focus on the life and work of singer Marianne Faithfull, disappeared in January.
Source: BFM TV
