THE Venice Film Festival starts this Wednesday (28) and runs until September 7th. The sequence of “Beetlejuice” (1988), entitled “The Ghosts Still Have Fun” of Tim Burton is out of the competition, but will be responsible for starting the 81st edition.
The 11-day event kicks off awards season. Films that premiered in Venice over the past three years have received 77 Oscar nominations and won 14, making the city a prime location for actors, producers and directors to be seen.
Names like Lady Gaga , Joaquin Phoenix , Julianne Moore , Tilda Swinton , Angelina Jolie , Daniel Craig , Adrien Brody , Felicity Jones , Cate Blanchett , George Clooney , Brad Pitt , Monica Bellucci , Michael Keaton , Jenna Ortega , Fernanda Montenegro , Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello are confirmed on the screens of the Palazzo del Cinema.
Among the highlights selected for the competition are: “Joker: Delirium for Two” by Todd Phillips; “Queer” by Luca Guadagnino; “I’m Still Here“, by Walter Salles; “The Room Next Door”, by Pedro Almodóvar; “Babygirl” with Nicole Kidman and Antonio Banderas; and “Maria” by Pablo Larraín with Angelina Jolie. See the full list below.
- “The Room Next Door”, Pedro Almodóvar;
- “Campo di battaglia”, by Gianni Amelio;
- “Leurs enfants après eux”, by Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma;
- “The Brutalist”, by Brady Corbet;
- “Jouer avec le feu”, by Delphine & Muriel Coulin;
- “Vermiglio”, by Maura Delpero;
- “Iddu (Sicilian Letters)”, by Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza;
- “Queer”, by Luca Guadagnino;
- “Love”, by Dag Johan Haugerud;
- “April”, by Dea Kulumbegashvili;
- “The Order”, by Justin Kurzel;
- “Maria”, by Pablo Larraín;
- “Trois amies”, by Emmanuel Mouret;
- “Kill the Jockey”, by Luis Ortega;
- “Joker: Delirium for Two”, by Todd Phillips;
- “Babygirl”, by Halina Reijn;
- “I’m Still Here”, by Walter Salles;
- “Future Diva”, by Giulia Louise Steigerwalt;
- “Harvest”, by Athina Rachel Tsangari;
- “Youth (Homecoming)” by Wang Bing; and
- “Stranger Eyes” by Yeo Siew Hua.
This year’s jury is chaired by the French actress Isabelle Huppert and formed by filmmakers and artists of different nationalities: Kleber Mendonca Son (Brazil), James Gray (United States), Andrew Haigh (United Kingdom), Agnieszka Holland (Poland), Abderrahmane Sissako (Mauritania), Giuseppe Tornator (Italy), Julia von Heinz (Germany) and Zhang Ziyi (China).
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*With information from Hannah Rantala and Crispian Balmer
This content was originally published in Venice Film Festival starts this Wednesday (28); see the selection of films on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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