The Venice Film Festival opens its doors to Italian projects. A rather unusual edition is expected from August 30 to September 9, 2023. International celebrities will not be accompanying the films (but some of them will nonetheless come to tie-in events, from parties to charity galas such as the amfAR Mastercard to raise funds for the fight against AIDS, an event that Leonardo DiCaprio does not gone). attend never misses). Result? The red carpet will be even more filled with stories filmed in Italy. First of all Luca Guadagnino will be there however (even without his film The Pretenders, which was supposed to open the competition with Zendaya) to receive the Andrea Purgatori SIAE award for his career.
The lights went out in Hollywood because of writers and actors strikebut the Lido promises a sky full of local talent. At least five, on paper, seem unacceptable with fil rouge, journey, failed in different ways, from epic during the world war to coming of age. From Michele Bravi to Mr. Rain, Laguna will also have Italian music stars who will also rediscover themselves in front of the camera.
Commander
An opening film directed by Edoardo De Angelis and inspired by the novel of the same name (Bompiani): set during World War II, the film promises to be an epic drama about the courage to go forward. The name refers to Salvatore Todaro (Pierfrancesco Favino) leading a submarine that mistakenly hit a Belgian merchant ship. The moral dilemma is: how far can you go to save the survivors?
I am the captain
Matteo Garrone takes the viewer into the journey of two young African immigrants. In Dakar, they face all sorts of dangers and atrocities. And it looks like an endless struggle for survival, despite the uncertain future. But they can’t let fear win.
Aeneas
Pietro Castellitto returns to direct Aeneasdirected not only by his father Pietro, but also by his younger brother Cesare, and the actress, a friend, for some time assumed a new girlfriend, Benedetta Porcaroli. The story follows two friends who metaphorically navigate the waters of growing up, from rowdy parties and ruthless action to adulthood.
Slowly
Also Slowly Stefano Solima sees Pierfrancesco Favino in the cast. He is in excellent company with Toni Servillo, Adriano Giannini and Valerio Mastandrea, even if the main character is Manuel, a sixteen year old boy who takes care of his elderly father. When he gets into a dangerous ring, someone wants to get him out of the way, and he asks for help from his father’s friends (former criminals).
Finally dawn
Saverio Costanzo returns as director of his partner Alba Rohrwacher, but this time in an international drama with Lily James and Joe Keery from very strange things. This story, too, becomes a one-night stand: the dream of a girl in Chinechitta in the 1950s. December 14 comes to the cinema, and everyone is already talking very well about it.