In Venice, 17 films challenge six Italians in the Mostra del Cinema competition.

Biopics, racism, love, emigration, the vampire Pinochet, wild swamps, ecological balance and, on the gender front, being born in the wrong body. These are just some of the themes of the seventeen films competing this year at the Venice Film Festival (August 30 – September 9) with six Italians: COMANDANTE by Edoardo De Angelis; FINALLY DAWN Saverio Costanzo; IO CAPTAIN Matteo Garrone; ANYONE Giorgio Rights; ENEA Pietro Castellitto and ADAGIO Stefano Sollima. It’s Seventeen: HISTORY by Ava DuVernay, the first African-American director to run for Venice, talks about racism in the States, inspired by Isabel Wilkerson’s essay Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, which combines an essayistic and biographical approach.

David Fincher’s “Killer” tells the story of a professional assassin (Michael Fassbender), a man with a lonely and meticulous character. The film is based on the graphic novel Le tueur written by Alexis Nolent. Sofia Coppola’s PRISCILLA, adaptation of Priscilla Beaulieu Presley’s 1985 biopic Elvis and Me. The film tells the story of this couple, from their meeting in Germany when she was fourteen and he ten years older, to the last day of the singer’s career. life. Fien Troch’s HOLLY tells the story of a fifteen-year-old girl who one day decides not to go to school on the very day a fire breaks out at the institute, resulting in the deaths of some of the students. Happening? A lot of people are starting to think not. MAESTRO, written and co-written with Bradley Cooper, is a biopic about Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor, son of Polish Jews who emigrated to America, and a musical prodigy. And his relationship with his wife, played by Carey Mulligan. BASTARDEN by Nicholas Arcel takes us to the middle of the 18th century, when the Danish king Frederik V wants to colonize the marshes of Jutland. No one dares to carry out the royal decree, because this is a deserted and dangerous place inhabited only by gypsies and bandits, but Ludwig von Kahler (Mads Mikkelsen) rises to the challenge.

In the center, instead of Michael Mann’s FERRARI, there will be a myth about the father of the red Cavallino. Set in the summer of 1957, then-former racing driver Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver) was in crisis following the bankruptcy of the company he and his wife Laura (Penelope Cruz) had founded just ten years earlier. The Poor Creatures! instead, the sulfuric Yorgos Lanthimos has a story of Bella Baxter (Emma Stone) with a very natural sexuality for her time. One day, while trying to escape from her abusive husband, she gets into an accident and drowns. The film is based on Alasdair Gray’s novel The Life and Mysteries of England’s First Woman Doctor. Also starring Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe. IN THE MEMORY of Michel Franco is the story of a loving couple who struggle to build a relationship while dealing with trauma and dementia. Cast: Elsie Fisher, Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard. Stephane Brizet’s Appetizers tells the love story between Laurent (Guillaume Canet), a fifty-year-old actor living in Paris, and Alice (Alba Rohrwacher), a pianist who instead lives by the sea in western France. Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast is set in a near future in which emotions are now a threat. Here, Gabrielle (Lea Seydoux) decides to purify her DNA with a machine that immerses her in her previous lives. The story unfolds over three distinct and distant periods: 1910, 2014 and 2044.

“DOGMAN” by Luc Besson tells the story of a boy who, despite his young age, already had a hard and painful life. His lifeline in this miserable existence will be the love of his dogs. In the novel KOBIETA Z… by Michał Englert and Małgorzata Szumowska, the protagonist is Adam, a man who lives in a small town in Poland, where he tries to be a good husband and father until he begins to feel more and more uncomfortable in society. his body and realizes that it does not reflect his true personality at all. The painting “EL CONDE” by Pablo Larrain focuses on the figure of Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean general who led the country from 1973 to 1990, who is depicted with great providence in a vampire vein. Now, having spent more than two centuries in this world, the reborn former dictator would decide to end his life once and for all. In Timm Kröger’s THEORY OF EVERYTHING, the physicist Johannes is in Switzerland in 1962 for a congress. Here, a series of unexplained occurrences lead to strange deaths, which a man decides to investigate, thanks in part to Karin, a jazz pianist. Created semi-secretly on a topic disliked by the Polish government, Agnieszka Holland’s GREEN BORDER tells the migration story of a Syrian refugee family. There is a little-known story about immigrants misled by the Belarusian authorities that they could easily enter Europe through the Polish border, but instead constantly jumped from one side to the other. The main characters of the film “Evil Doesn’t Exist” by Japanese Academy Award winner Hamaguchi Ryusuke (“Drive My Car”) are Takumi and his daughter Hana, who live in the village of Mizubiki near Tokyo. One day, the residents learn of a plan to build a luxury campsite. However, it soon becomes clear that the project will have a negative impact on the ecological balance of the village.