Woody Allen
We know this will be an anomalous release due to the loss of most of Sag-Aftra’s actresses and actors involved in a long and difficult dispute with the studios. Therefore, directors will shine on the red carpet, who already in Venice 80 dominate the jury headed by Damien Chazelle with Jane Campion and our own Gabriele Mainetti. Among the most anticipated writers, along with David Fincher, Sofia Coppola, Wes Anderson, Bradley Cooper, Luc Besson, Richard Linklater, Pablo Larren, Michael Mann, stands out Woody Allen, who will arrive on September 4 with his new film (out of competition). , Coupe de chancefilmed in Paris. A love triangle involving Fanny (Lou de Laage), Jean (Melville Poupot) and Alain (Niels Schneider). For Woody, the Italian scene is also musical, for concerts with his New Orleans jazz band: September 16 in Rome at Villa Ada, September 23 in Milan at Blue Note.
Adam Driver
He competes as Enzo Ferrari in one of the most anticipated films of the exhibition directed by Michael Mann, back behind the camera after eight years. His presence is confirmed to be Patrick Dempsey’s, and Penélope Cruz will not be there (his wife, Laura Garello, in the film). After Maurizio Gucci from Ridley Scott’s film, another famous Italian character for an actor. ferrari based on the book by Brock Yeats Enzo Ferrari – Man and Machine, is dedicated to the decisive year in the life of an entrepreneur, 1957, when he is on the verge of bankruptcy, ten years after the founding of the company, and his marriage is in deep crisis after the death of his son Dino. In the film, the Driver is unrecognizable, on the red carpet he will have to give way to photographers in withdrawal syndrome.
Priscilla Presley
after Elvis Based on Luhrmann, accepted at Cannes in 2022, another point of view comes to Venice 80, the point of view of Presley’s wife – they met in 1959 when she was 14 and he was 24 – narrated by Sofia Coppola in the competition film and based on his memoirs since 1985, Elvis and me. The meeting of the two women turned out to be fruitful, they talked about it together in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter. And Priscilla, now 78 (played on screen by Caylee Spaeny), will accompany the film on the Lido. “Thanks to my family experience, I know very well what it means to be in the family of the entertainment world,” said the director. I know that people who grow up look at you differently. Also, I lived in this house with my father, a great personality, a great artist, and most of our lives revolved around him. Seeing my mother’s life trying to find her way in his life made me empathize.” Priscilla trusted her. “When I saw the movie, I tried to step back and experience it as if I was just a fan or someone who wanted to see the movie. In the end, in fact, I was touched.”
Luca Guadagnino
His ApplicantsThe love triangle with Zendaya and Josh O’Connor was expected to be the opening film of Venice 80, but due to a strike by the actors, the release was pushed back to 2024, the film was pulled from the festival. But the director will still be at the Lido on September 2 at the Sala Perla as part of the Giornate degli Autori to receive the Siae award, named this year in honor of Andrea Purgatori, who passed away last July.
Jessica Chastain and Mads Mikkelsen
The list of stars present is constantly growing: on August 31, Caleb Landry Jones, the main character dog man Luc Besso and Vincent Lyndon for the series D’Argent and de sang Xavier Giannoli. September 1 Mads Mikkelsen is confirmed to the position Bastarden Nicholas Arsel. The next day for Castle Polanski 8 justifiably absent) comes Fanny Ardant, then Léa Seydoux for Beast Bertrand Bonello. It seems that the presence of Jessica Chastain on the Memory of Michel Franco was confirmed on September 8th. But, as always, there will be surprises.
Isabelle Huppert
In such uncertainty, there is one certainty: Isabelle Huppert. The empress of French cinema will be at the Lido for the Days of Venice with a film Synody of Japan Elisa Girard as a famous French writer mourning the death of her husband, who lives on in her memory, even to the point of seeing her ghost, during a promotional tour of Japan.