Everything is ready for the 80th Venice Film Festival, which will bring the Lido to life again from August 30 to September 9. One of the directors participating in the competition has already won the Golden Lion in the past: it is Sofia Coppola, who in 2010 won with the film. Somewhere. Try again this year with Priscillawhich recounts the memories of Priscilla Presley, Elvis’ wife.
The new edition also marks the return to the big screen of Luc Besson, the hallmark of many iconic films such as Leon AND Giovanna D’Arco. This year the French director will visit Venice with Dogmana thriller that tells the story of Douglas, an outcast victim of his stepfather’s abuse, who nonetheless maintains a special relationship with a pack of loyal dogs.
And speaking of thrillers, here comes one of the modern masters of the genre: David Fincher, author of such masterpieces as Se7ev AND Social network. In the Lido, he will offer a new Netflix movie, Murderer, with Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton. “A brutal, elegant and bloodthirsty noir about a professional killer in a world that has lost its morals,” the director explained. The American director has a difficult relationship with the Venetian event: in 1999, in fact, his Fight club it was presented at the 56th Venice Film Festival in the “Dreams and Visions” section, where critics met it with booing and harsh criticism. However, later the work became a real cult, capable of moving Fincher’s career off the ground.
Bradley Cooper also returned to Venice with his second directorial effort. In 2018, Lidense presented its first out-of-competition film in cinemas, A star is bornwith Lady Gaga. Owner is a new feature film co-produced by Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. The protagonist is Leonard Bernstein, an American composer considered by Classical Voice magazine to be the second greatest conductor of all time.
Great expectation too Poor things Yorgos Lanthimos featuring all-stars including Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe. The renowned and alarming Greek director has already received the Silver Lion, i.e. the Grand Jury Prize, in 2018 with Darling. This year he will try to win with a sentimental sci-fi film that tells the story of a young woman who is brought back to life by a scientist. Actress Emma Stone won the 2016 Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her outstanding performance in La La Land Damien Chazelle. A few months later, she was also awarded an Academy Award. Let’s see if this movie brings that much luck.
Also returning to Venice is Pablo Larrain, a director who has become a regular at the Venice Film Festival: after the biopics Jackie AND Spencerfocusing respectively on the lives of Jacqueline Kennedy and Lady Diana, again tries El Conde, a black comedy that portrays Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet as a 250-year-old vampire seeking death. “It seems right to offer an allegory of evil at a time when it seems that history must repeat itself, to remind us how dangerous we are, we are as a system,” the director said.
Instead, this Enzo Ferrari-focused new film by Michael Mann, who has directed productions such as Last of the Mohicans AND Pledge. The feature film, starring Adam Driver as a car magnate, will have its world premiere in Venice.
CommanderThe first Italian film to enter the competition instead faces the daunting task of opening the festival: the film is set during World War II and stars Pierfrancesco Favino, who has already won the 2020 Volpi Cup for best film. male interpretation with Our father Claudio Walnut.
We find Favino also in Slowly, a new work by Stefano Sollima. Roman director, famous filmmaker subura and from the series crime novelalso brings together Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea and Adriano Giannini in the cast to tell the story of Manuel, a teenager who, despite himself, remains entangled in a criminal case.
Saverio Costanzo also returned, who after the presentation in Venice The loneliness of prime numbers AND Hungry hearts (respectively in 2010 and 2014), will offer Finally dawninternational film featuring Lily James, Willem Dafoe and star very strange things Joe Keery. Set in the 1950s, the work tells the story of a young woman, an aspiring actress, who experiences a night of emotion in Cinecitta, during which she rediscovers herself.
Renowned director Matteo Garrone, author of such masterpieces as reality AND Dogmanwill be in the Lido I am the captain, which chronicles the journey of two young Senegalese through Europe. The film is inspired by the real stories of the boys who told about the journey.
After international success i wanted to hideGiorgio Rights tries to win the Golden Lion with Ljuboplayed by the talented German actor Franz Rogowski: this is a dramatic film based on the novel Sower Mario Cavatore.
However, the second film of Pietro Castellito, a rising star of Italian cinema, greatly intrigued critics. After success PredatorsVwhich won him the Orizzonti Award for Best Screenplay in 2020, the 32-year-old director enters official competition for the first time with Aeneasa film that brings together victims and perpetrators of an extremely corrupt world.