2024-09-03 00:47:08
This year, the Venice Film Festival is showing its dazzling side. A sex drama with Nicole Kidman is also a major topic of conversation.
There are stars who have great chemistry when they meet. And there are those who are best avoided as much as possible. Brad Pitt is faced with both options at this year’s Venice Film Festival. The 60-year-old presented his new film “Wolfs” there together with his long-time friend George Clooney. At the same time, the festival did everything it could to ensure that he did not meet his ex-wife Angelina Jolie.
So he took the opportunity to strut down the red carpet with his new girlfriend Ines de Ramon. They posed together in front of the assembled photographers, beamed into the cameras, and showed their familiarity. It was their first joint appearance of this kind.
Pitt, Clooney and Jolie are just some of the Hollywood stars who have been famous since the 1990s and are showing their new films in Venice this year. Nicole Kidman, Winona Ryder, Jude Law and Adrien Brody are also making the film festival seem like a revival of the 1990s and early 2000s.
In general, the celebrity density is particularly high this year. This means that some fans even spend the night on the red carpet. Equipped with mini fans and colorful umbrellas, they hope to take selfies with their idols. The stars are happy to oblige. After a Hollywood strike that is still in everyone’s bones, they seem to enjoy the audience’s interest in them and their films.
The sensational looks also cause a lot of flashbulbs. Transparent dresses, revealing cuts and lots of bare skin can be admired in the celebrity parade.
But the most talked about was probably Nicole Kidman, who gives a fearless performance in the erotic drama “Babygirl”. The 57-year-old embodies a woman who lives out long-suppressed sexual desires. “Babygirl” tells the story of desire from a new, female perspective. And of what can happen in a family and relationship if people don’t talk openly to each other.
The audience sees Kidman kneeling on the floor drinking milk from a bowl, watches her get Botox, hyaluronic acid or some other rejuvenating injection. And we see her having sex again and again. Right at the beginning of the film, her character secretly masturbates on the floor of her bedroom to a porn film after faking an orgasm during sex with her partner.