In competition films by Gianni Amelio, Emanule Crialese, Luca Guadagnino, Susanna Nicchiarelli and Andrea Pallaoro. Out of the Virzì “Drought” competition
Art cinema, newcomers, stars and a lot of Italian cinema. Alberto Barbera unveiled the full-bodied Venezia 79 program (from 31 August to 10 September). Twenty-three titles in the competition, including five Italians – including five Americans and five French, and five female directors – will be judged by the jury chaired by Julianne Moore. The lord of the ants by Gianni Amelio with Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano and Sara Serraiocco on the Braibanti case, produced by Marco Bellocchio who at the time was among those who signed in support of the intellectual sentenced to nine years in prison on charges of plagiarism. The immensitythe return of Emanuele Crialese with a very personal work interpreted by Penélope Cruz. Bones and All by Luca Guadagnino with Timothée Chalamet, Taylor Russell and Mark Rylance and Chloë Sevigny, shot in the American Midwest. Chiara by Susanna Nicchiarelli on the figure of the saint, with Margherita Mazzucco, Carlotta Natoli and Luigi Lo Cascio. Finally, the last Italian film in competition is Monica by Andrea Pallaoro with Trace Lysette and Patricia Clarkson. Also among the competition titles No Bears by Jafar Panahi, sentenced to 6 years in prison last week in Iran. The director explained Barbera “he is still in prison, and while he was shooting he only had permission to circulate but not to shoot, but he still managed to make the film”.
Authors are stars
Among the most anticipated titles, Blonde by Andrew Dominik with Ana De Armas as Marilyn Monroe, the return of Darren Darren Aronofsky with The Whale con Brendan Fraser, that of Alejandro González Iñárritu with Bardo. False Time.news Of A Handful Of TruthsThe son by Florian Zeller . To open, in the race, it will be White Noise, written and directed by Noah Baumbach, starring Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, by Netflix. The highly anticipated psychological thriller is out of competition Don’t worry darling of Olivia Wilde who plays him with Florence Pugh and Harry Styles and also Drought by Paolo Virzì, choral work with Claudia Pandolfi, Silvio Orlando, Valerio Mastandrea, Vinicio Marchioni. Sara Serraiocco, Elena Lietti, Emanuela Fanelli. Closing film The hanging sun by Francesco Carrozzini with Alessandro Borghi, Jessica Brown Filndlay, Sam Spruell. It will be an edition that hopes to leave behind the pandemic restrictions (no limitations, only suggested masks and mandatory seat reservations) with a great parade of stars: Chalamet and Harry Syles, in fact, and Tilda Swinton, Colin Farrell, Hugh Jackman, Anthony Hopkins, Willem Dafoe and Sigourney Weaver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, director Paul Schrader and French diva Catherine Deneuve, or the two Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement. And so on.
Horizons, doc and series
Eighteen titles in competition in the Horizons section, including I eat your heart by Pippo Mezzapesa, with the debut in the acting of Elodie with Francesco Patané and Francesco Di Leva, portrait in black and white of a crime family of the Gargano and Princess by Roberto De Paolis who closely followed a Nigerian prostitute, the protagonist of the film in which Lino Musella and Salvatore Striano appear. Shot in Rome Vera by Tizza and Rainer Frimmel with Vera Gemma. Also noteworthy is the first work that arrives from Spain in the margins by Juan Diego Botto with Penélope Cruz, already competing with Crialese. In Orizzonti Extra Ghost night by Fulvio Risuleo with Edoardo Pesce e Amanda by Carolina Cavalli with Benedetta Porcaroli, Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Michele Bravi. The VR program is back on the Lazzaretto island. Two series that will be at the Lido: the five episodes of the series by Lars Von Trier The Kingdom Exodus, sequel to his cult work
and the new one by Nicolas Winding Refn, Copenhagen Cowboy. Among the documentaries Travelling by Gianfranco Rosi following Pope Bergoglio around the world. The Kiev Trial di Sergei Loznitsa, The Matchmaker by Benedetta Argentieri, on the women of the caliphate. Among those of the Venezia Classic section Sergio Leone. The Italian who invented America by Francesco Zippel and the one on Zeffirelli by Anselma Dell’Olio.
Anniversaries
The president of the Biennale Roberto Cicutto recalled the two anniversaries, the 90 since the foundation of the Exhibition, in 1932, and the ten years of Biennale College which this year presents four new projects. Barbera underlines the link between Biennale Cinema and the present. «It is said that festivals are windows open to the world. From this window I must say that we are witnessing things that we would prefer not to see, such as the war of aggression against Ukraine, forced to defend itself and at the same time defend the European democracies threatened by Putin’s imperialism. We would not have wanted to see even the arrests in Iran with the unjustified incarceration of three filmmakers, guilty only of having exercised their right to freedom of expression. So we would not have wanted a few months ago to the incredible sentence of a young Turkish producer, Çiğdem Mater, with six other co-defendants, guilty of having only designed a documentary on the Gezi Park protests, a documentary never made ». The Biennale, explained the artistic director of the event, «has never failed to make its voice heard in defense of the Ukrainian people and the many filmmakers deprived of their freedom and will shortly announce the initiatives it will take during the course of the exhibition. It was important to say this at the beginning and to remember that exhibitions are not produced within a bubble closed to contemporary reality ».
The titles of the competition
The lord of the ants by Gianni Amelio
The Whale by Darren Aronofsky
The immensity by Emanuel Crialese
Saint-Omer by Alice Diop
Blonde of Andrew Dominic
Tar by Todd Field
Love Life by Koji Fukada
Bardo, False Time.news Of A Handful Of Truths by Alejandro G. Inarritu
Athena by Romain Gavras
Bones and All by Luca Guadagnino
The Eternal Daughter by Joanna Hogg
Beyond The Wall di Vahid Jalilvand
The Banshees Of Inisherin of Martin McDonagh
Argentina 1985 by Santiago Miter
Chiara by Susanna Nicchiarelli
Monica by Andrea Pallaoro
No Bears di Jafar Panahi
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed by Laura Poitras
A Couple of Frederick Wiseman
The Son di Florian Zeller Our Ties, dir: Roschdy Zem
Other People’s Children by Rebecca Zlotowski
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