Venice Film Festival day by day: at the opening ceremony on August 30, 90-year-old Liliana Cavani will be honored with the Lion of Lifetime Achievement, who will present her latest film, The Order of Time, out of competition. The opening entry in Venice is Comandante by De Angelis with Pierfrancesco Favino in competition. Michael Mann’s Ferrari with Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz, Luc Besson’s Dogman, Pablo Larraín’s El Conde and Vincent Lyndon among the cast, D’Argent et de Sang star Xavier Giannoli will arrive at the competition on August 31st. On Friday, September 1, the second Italian in the competition is Saverio Costanzo with “At last Dawn”, as well as the long-awaited Povere Creatures from Yorgos Lanthimos (with Emma Stone, whose photo will not be on the Lido due to the Hollywood strike) and the Danish artist Bastarden competes with Nikolai Arcele with Mads Mikkelsen; Micaela Ramazzotti, director of Happiness, debuts at Orizzonti; Wes Anderson withdraws short film “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar” from competition. 2nd place in the Adagio competition by Stefano Sollima, maestro and with Bradley Cooper (absent from the Lido); out of competition The Palace Polanski and Aggro Dr1ft Harmony Korine (with Travis Scott); Lifetime achievement lion to Tony Leung.
Sunday 3 in David Fincher’s Killer with Michael Fassbender and Bonello’s La Bethe with Léa Seydoux; Out of competition, William Friedkin’s latest work, Cain’s Mutiny Tribunal-Martial. 4th place in Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, out of Woody Allen’s Coupe de Chance. On the 5th, Pietro Castellitto competed with Aeneas; on 6 Matteo Garrone with Io Capitano; 7 Lubo by Giorgio Wrights; 8th in Michel Franco’s Memory Competition with Jessica Chastain, Enzo Giannacci’s paper out of competition. 9th – Night of the Lions, the last film of “Society Neve” J. A. Bayona.