Venice Film Festival 2023, everyone stop: George Clooney has arrived

Instructions for a good start Venice Film Festival: let him come George Clooney. The star landed in Lagoon with his wife Amal and Clune’s entire repertoire of greetings, smiles and non-verbal language, a combination of charm, friendliness and natural composure. At the last Festival under the great leadership Alberto Barbera, that everything he puts into the program turns into an Oscar, with the first being destroyed by the lack of actors on the red carpet due to the Hollywood strike, knowing that George is there is a big relief. He has no film to present, he comes to Venice to accompany Amal, who will be at the Diane von Furstenberg Prize ceremony on August 31, an award created by the designer and dedicated to women who help other women, to receive one of the awards DVF Leadership Awards. for her work advocating for victims of human rights violations around the world.

Will George, the escort, be able to steal the spotlight from Amal? It looks like he won’t be doing interviews or being photographed, a modest goal, but how low can it be when your name is George Clooney? Of course, Venice has always attracted stars, and was home to a mega-Hollywood wedding in 2014, officiated by Walter Veltroni and full of famous friends like Matt Damon and Cindy Crawford. It’s unclear whether Clooney will tour the red carpet of a movie, who knows, maybe before returning to his tourist-infested #LakeComo. Currently without Zendaya (film Contenders Guadagnino is excluded from the program), without Bradley Cooper, who refused to participate and will not present his second work as a director, Ownerwithout Emma Stone (she is the main character Poor things Lanthimos), without cast The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (Ralph Fiennes and Benedict Cumberbatch), George in Venice. What else?