Venice Women’s. Over the years, the women’s festival has conquered the seventh art and continues to tell amazing stories. Equality (even in wages) seems far away, but for release 80from August 30 to September 9 next year, in Film screening three directors participate in the competition: Sofia Coppola (in the past already the Golden Lion, and now in the Lido with Priscilla), Ava Duvernay and Agnieszka Holland. Liliana Cavani’s latest work is eagerly awaited out of competition, Order of time, this year awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The godmother, Caterina Murino, continues the work of Chiara Caselli, who first performed this role in 2000. 4061 projects were submitted, of which one in three had a woman behind the camera.. Among them is Zar Amir Ebrahimi, an Iranian director who is the protagonist of the award-winning film Holy Spider.
Talents from 54 countries
The Italian parterre is expected to be very crowded on the red carpet, starting with performers of various works, including Claudia Gerini, Valentina Cervi, Francesca Einaudi (all Order of time), Benedetta Porcaroli (Aeneas) and Valentina Belle (Ljubo). Hollywood stars could also march, but the strike of the actors is preventing (Emma Stone has already announced that she will not accompany her film Poor things). Most awaited? Tilda Swinton (performer) Murderer David Fincher and already the owner of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement), Jessica Chastain (Memory), Penelope Cruz (Coppa Volpe two years ago) and Shailene Woodley for the biopic ferrari Michael Mann, Olga Kurylenko (in the French TV series Silver and blood), Carey Mulligan and Maya Hawke (Owner), Lilly James (Finally an album.a) and Lea Seydoux (Beth).
First women
The first woman to win the Golden Lion for Best Film was the German Margarethe von Trotta (with years of lead), which paved the way for colleagues Agnès Varda, Mira Nair, Chloe Zhao and last year’s winner Laura Poitras. In 1993, Claudia Cardinale made festival history when she received the Golden Lion for services to the genre.. It was followed by screenwriters Suso Cecchi D’Amico, Monica Vitti, Michelle Morgan, Alida Valli, Sophia Loren, Stefania Sandrelli, Isabelle Huppert, Thelma Schoonmaker, Jane Fonda, Vanessa Redgrave, Julie Andrews, Anne Hui, Jamie Lee Curtis and Catherine Deneuve (in 2022).
Parity
There Coppa Volpi as the best interpretation it has been both male and female since 1934. Katharine Hepburn was the first to receive it for Small woman. Later it was given to actresses of the caliber of Anna Magnani, Bette Davis, Vivien Leigh, Ingrid Bergman, Sophia Loren, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche, Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett (2 times, last in 2022), Valeria Golino, Vanessa Kirby, Penélope Cruz, Emma Stone and Olivia Colman.
In recent years, the Venice Film Festival has been a real starting point in the Oscar race. When he won it Jennifer Lawrence she said that for her the Marcello Mastroianni award of the festival is of great value, because it consecrates new talents. And if she says so…