Julia Roberts, George ClooneyEmma Stone, Dwayne Johnson, Adam Sandler and Idris Elba are the headling films of some celebrities of this year Venice International Film FestivalThe organizers on Tuesday unveiled the starry lineup for their 82nd edition, which is closed A busy decline film festival Season in August.
Two years after launch “Poor things” In Venice, Yorgos Lantimos and Stone are returning with “Bagonia”, which South Korean Science-Fi Comedy “Save the Green Planet!” An English language is remake. It is one of the 21 films playing in the main competition. Clooney will also return as the star of Noah Bambach’s “J Kelly”, in which he plays a famous actor on a trip through Europe with his long -time manager (Sandler).
Some of the other high-profile titles competing for Golden Lion include: Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankstein”, Oscar Isaac with Victor Francustein and Jacob Alardi monster; Playing Beni Safi’s sports drama “The Smashing Machine”, Johnson as his wife as MMA fighter Mark Carr and Emily Blunt; And Olivier Asyas’s “The Wizard of the Kremlin”, which plays the role of Jude Law Vladimir Putin and Paul Dano plays his spin doctor.
In addition, the competition stars Catherine Biglo’s “A House of Dynamite”, a political thriller about a adjacent missile strike in the US, including Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson and Jim Jarmash’s anthology film “Father Mother Sister”, Kate Blanchet and Adam Driver. Many master filmmakers are also in the block: Park Chan-Vook will start “no other options”; László Nemes’s “Orphan” has his most individual film yet; And François Ozone takes an Albert Camus with “L’TRARANGER”.
One of the title bound to make waves is Kuthe Ben Hania’s “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” about the young girl Who was killed with six other relatives When he was trapped in his car under the Israeli fire in North Gaza.
Luca Guadagnino’s “After Hunt,” a psychological thriller for the #MeToo era, about the complaint of sexual violence at an American university, is getting out of the competition – a joint decision between filmmaker and Amazon MGM. It will mark Roberts for the first time on the festival. He is a co-star in the film with Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edabiri.
Julian Schnebel’s “The Hand of Dante” based on Panth novel with Isaac, Gall Gadot, Al Patchino and Martin Scorses is also showing out of the competition, as Bill Scarsguard, Gass Van Sant’s “Dead Man Wire” with Callman Domingo.
A barrier island in Venice Lagoon, festival held on Lido, will open on 27 August with Tony Surillo and Paolo Sorntino’s “La Grazia” and run on 6 September. Alexander Payne is presiding over the main competition jury, including actor Fernanda Torus and directors.
Venice has established herself as a solid launching pad for Oscar Hopful, with a handful of best pictures winners, “The Shape of Water,” “Spotlight,” “Nomadelland” and “Burdman,” and many more enrolled persons for its name. The lineup in the previous year had several final Oscars winning films, including Brady Corbett’s “The Brutilist”, who included the best actor for the Adrian Body, Walter Salales’s Best International Feature winner “I M Sill Hear” and the Antimited short “The Shadow in the Shadow in the DiPper.
Corbett wrote another competition entry with his partner Mona Fastwold, who directed “The Testament of An Li” with Amanda Safrid. Like the “The Brutilist”, it was also shot at 70 mm, but it is quite small.
Venice will only be the first stop for many films, including “Frankstein” and “The Smashing Machine”, which will play at the Toronto Film Festival shortly after.
The festival has excluded 15 documentaries from the competition, including Golden Lion winner Laura Pitrass, and Mark Opnehus, “cover-up”, investigative journalist Seemor Harsh; About her long friendship with Sophia Copla’s documentary “Mark by Sophia” fashion designer Mark Jacobs; The doctor “Ghost Elephants”, the doctor of Wnerner Herzog, was described as an thriller as an thriller; And “Kim Novak’s vertigo.”
Both Novak and Herzog are being honored Life achievement award During the festival.
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The story has been updated to remove the reference to Chloe Jhao’s “Hamnet”, which is not expected to be shown in the festival.
Lindsay Bahr, Associated Press
