The Mexican director will arrive at the Venice Film Festival today, September 8. Michelle Franco together with American actress Jessica Chastain with “Memory”. Two other films participating in the competition: “Horse Season” With Alba Rohrwacher AND Guillaume Canet from a French director Stefan Brize AND “Kobieta Z… (Woman)» Polish directors Małgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert.
““I’m a Hollywood star born in the wrong country; it’s no coincidence that my cult actress is Isabelle Huppert.” these are words Jessica Chastainvery elegantly dressed in black, arrives at the Lido for the presentation Memory. He is here as the protagonist of the film and with some nervousness wants to say, despite the actors’ strike, thanks to Sagt’s permission, why “it’s an independent, off-the-wall film that could be the future of cinema with the advent of streaming.“.
In In Memoriam, Chastain plays Sylvia, a social worker living a simple, completely normal and organized life between her daughter, work and Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. Everything falls apart when Saul (Peter Sarsgaard) enters the picture, an unstable man who follows her home and slowly enters her life, causing a resurfacing of her terrible past.