Venice 2023: From Jessica Chastain to Damien Chazelle, the festival will bring all the stars

This won’t happen either the actors are on strike stop traditional landing Hollywood stars in Lido Venice: The Venice International Film Festival 2023 will, as usual, be all about glamorous and exclusive parties, so you can look forward to some (perhaps unexpected) green light for the participation of American actors and the arrival of the main characters of European and, of course, Italian cinema.
What “saved” the Venetian red carpet was the independent nature of many American projects and the production of films in European countries and Canada – details that allowed SAG-AFTRA to issue film promotion licenses to its own members.

Last Hour Confirmations

Among the confirmations of recent hours, there are those that Ferrari under the leadership of Michael Mann will be able to count on the support of his protagonist. Adam Driver and many of its interpreters, including the former Grey’s Anatomy Dr. Strangelove. Patrick DempseyBye Jessica Chastain will return to the Lido thanks to the Remembrance project directed by Michel Franco with Peter Sarsgaard, who is also present at the lagoon to present Coup!, the final film of Venetian Days directed by Josef Schumann and also featuring Billy Magnussen. throw.
Among the latest confirmations are those of Caylee Spainy and Jacob Elordi, respectively the interpreters of Priscilla and Elvis Presley in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla. Accompanying the feature film team, which, however, failed to use the original songs of the king of rock, will be Priscilla Presley herself, whose life is told on the big screen.

Also confirmed is the presence of Caleb Landry Jones, star of “Dogman,” Universal Mads Mikkelsen

who will star in Promised Land, as well as Kiefer Sutherland, who starred in William Friedkin’s last film before his death, Kane’s Mutiny Tribunal.

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Certain names

The names that were already confirmed from the start were the names of the directors who will land in Venice to present their film: Wes Anderson will come to present his feature film The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Woody Allen with “Coup de Chance” Luc Besson will present Dogman, Roman Polanski – “Palace”, Sofia Coppola – as already mentioned – Priscilla, Michael Mann – biographical “Ferrari”, David Fincher will debut “The Killer” (almost certainly without Michael Fassbender and Tilda Usinton), Richard Linklater will present “The Hitman” (without Glen Powell), Jack Huston will walk the red carpet of “Fight Day”, and Yorgos Lanthimos will present “Poor Creatures”! , despite the absence of Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo.
Ava DuVernay, in addition to submitting her film Origin, will be one of the main characters at the amfAR gala where she will be awarded the Inspiration Award. The exclusive evening will also feature Rita Ora and Leona Lewis as musical guests.
However, among the missing big names there is a name Bradley Cooperthe protagonist and director of “Maestro”, who announced some time ago that he would not come to the festival.

italian stars

Italian cinema will be the protagonist of the Venice Film Festival from the very opening film: Pierfrancesco Favino in fact, he is the protagonist of the films “Comandante” and “Adagio”, directed by Edoardo de Angelis and Stefano Sollima. The two feature films also starred Silvia D’Amico, Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea and Adriano Giannini.
Saverio Costanzo instead returns to the Venice Lido to present Dawn at Last, despite having to deal with the absence of many of its stars – most notably Lily James and Joe Keery, stars of Stranger Things (for fans of the series, he remains a possible involvement of Joseph Quinn, who introduced Hoard at Critics’ Week, is questionable).
Michaela Ramazzotti he will walk the red carpet in an unprecedented role as a director thanks to Felicite, his first work behind the camera, supported by actors Max Tortor, Anna Galiena, Matteo Olivetti and Sergio Rubini.
Italian filmmakers will also include Matteo Garrone, Giorgio Rights, Liliana Cavani, who will receive the Golden Lion for their services to the genre and present The Order of Time without competition from stars of the caliber Alexander Gassman

and Claudia Gerini, as well as the young Pietro Castellito, who will propose Aeneas, a film starring Benedetta Porcaroli, Matteo Branchamor and Sergio Castellito among the actors.

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Authors days

One of the icons of French cinema. Isabelle Huppertwill land on the Lido to present Sidonie Au Japon along with her protagonist August Diehl, another film from the Giornate degli Autori collection, which will also bring to Venice internationally acclaimed artists such as director Celine Sciamma for the presentation of the film “So baby becomes a poet” Italian stars of “God’s Grace” directed by Alessandro Roya (Tommaso Ragno and Maya Sansa) and Nina dei Lupi directed by Antonio Pisu (cast of Sergio Rubini, Sandra Ceccarelli, Sara Ciocca and Davide Silvestri), actor Salvatore Esposito, now a star of Hollywood projects between series and films, and again Monia Chokri, Donatella Finocchiaro, director Luca Guadagnino, Shirin Neshat and Kasia Smutniak.

Jury members and party guests

Among the names also confirmed Olga Kurilenko for the series “Blood and Money”, directed by Xavier Giannoli, Fanny Ardant, Emmanuelle Seigner, who will accompany her husband Roman Polanski. Venice will come alive in the coming days also with countless parties, starting with an evening hosted by Variety in honor of Damien ChazelleChairman of the Jury of Venice 80, at the Hotel Danieli, and then continue on August 31 on the island of San Giorgio with the Diane von Furstenberg Award ceremony, which will also be attended by Amal Alamuddin, wife of George Clooney.
Giorgio Armani, with guests already promising to be of the highest caliber, will offer a fashion show, cocktails and events that will delight photographers and fans desperately looking for a shot of their favorites.
Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, the godmothers of the event Martina Stella and Laura Chiatti, Alessandro Siani, and Oscar winners Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo will perform at the Filming Italy Best Film Awards on Sunday 3 September. Schiavo.
Katerina Murino, the godmother of this edition of the Exhibition, will be a guest at numerous meetings and parties, accompanying the entire event with her beauty.

Finally, the main characters of the film world were present on the jury: from Jane Campion to Mia Hansen-Love, from Gabriele Mainetti to Martin McDonagh, not forgetting Chazelle, director Alice Diop, Andrea De Sica and Saleh Bakri.