Time.news – The five Italian titles signed by Crialese, Amelio, Guadagnino, Pallaoro and, only woman, Susanna Nicchiarelli.
Andrew Dominik’s (‘Blonde’, starring Ana De Armas), the long-awaited film about Marylin Monroe, the third film by Romeain Gavras, son of Costa Gavras (‘Athina’) and, among others, that of the Iranian director Jafar Panahi condemned by the regime (‘Khers Nist’ defined in a press conference by Alberto Barbera as “the most beautiful of those who toured in hiding”).
There are twenty-three films in the main competition in Venice 79 (scheduled from 31 August to 10 September) which will be judged by the jury chaired by Julianne Moore.
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Here are the works competing for the Golden Lion: ‘White noise’ the opening film by Noah Baumbach; ‘The lord of the ants’ by Gianni Amelio on the Braibanti trial; Darren Aronofsky’s ‘The whale’; ‘The immensity’ which marks the return of Emanuele Crialese (who focuses on Penelope Cruz); ‘Saint Omer’ by the French Alice Diop: ‘Blonde’ di Andrew Dominic (with the star of the moment, Ana de Armas, as Monroe); Todd Field’s ‘Tar’, starring Cate Blanchett; Koji Fukada’s ‘Love Life’; ‘Barda, Falsa cronica de unas cuantas verdades’ the film on which Alejandro G. Inarritu worked for five years; ‘Athena’ by Romain Gavras; ‘Bones and all’ by Luca Guadagnino (“the most cosmopolitan Italian director, who this time shot a film about the failure of the American dream in the American midwest” explained Barbera); Joanna Dogg’s ‘The Eternal Daughter’; ‘Shab, Dakheli, Divar (Beyond the wall) by Iranian Vahid Jalilvand; Martin Mcdonagh’s ‘The banshees of inisherin’; ‘Argentina, 1985’ by Santiago Miter, which reconstructs the trial of the military junta of the Argentine dictatorship of the 1970s; ‘Chiara’ by Susanna Nicchiarelli, which sheds new light on the figure of Santa Chiara (with Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana cruciani, and Luigi Lo Cascio, who is also the protagonist of Amelio’s film); Andrea Pallaoro’s ‘Monica’, with trans actress Trace Lysette; ‘Khers nist (no bears) by the Iranian Jafar Panahi; ‘All the beauty and the bloodshed’ by Laura Poitras, portrait of the performer Nan Goldin; ‘Un couple’, by Frederick Wiseman, on the correspondence between Leo Tolstoy and his wife; ‘The son’ di Florian Zeller, con Hugh Jackman e Anthony Hopkins; ‘Les miens (our ties)’, by Roschdy Zem, about a bourgeois family of Maghrebi; ‘Les enfants des autres (other people’s children) by Rebecca Zlotowski in whose cast there is also Chiara Mastroianni.
Barbera, Festival window on the wounded world
“It is said that festivals are open windows to the world and perhaps this is an abused image, but it is true that from this window we witness things that we do not like”. Thus the artistic director of the Venice Film Festival opened the press conference for the presentation of the 79th edition, the one that coincides with the 90th anniversary of the first edition: “We never thought we would have to deal with the war of aggression in Ukraine, with the democracies threatened by Putin’s imperialism, with the three dissident Iranian filmmakers Jafar Panahi (in competition in this edition with ‘Khers nist’) Mohammad Rasoulof and Mostafa Al Ahmad arrested in Iran and with the conviction of the young Turkish producer Cigdem Mater “, he continued, thus clarifying that the Biennale will soon announce its initiatives in defense of the Ukrainian people.