It has to shine as much or more than on the Croisette in Cannes. Light as prosecco bubbles, that was the atmosphere on Wednesday, August 28, during the opening of the 81st Cannes Film Festival.my The Venice Film Festival is set to take place on September 7th. Artistic director Alberto Barbera has put in a star-studded programme. Twenty-one films are competing for the Golden Lion, which will be awarded by the president of the jury, Isabelle Huppert. Beyond the statuette in the shape of a winged beast, the big ships are aiming for the Oscars and Venice is acting as a launching pad.
This is the case, specifically, of the second part of the Warner franchise, Joker. Folie a dosby Todd Phillips, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga. In 2019, the head of the Mostra surprised by selecting the first work, Jokerfrom the same director, which earned Joaquin Phoenix the Oscar for best actor. Obviously it was a good strategy, so repeat.
Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas
Angelina Jolie, for her part, stars in the film Mariaby Chilean Pablo Larraín, about the last days of the singer Maria Callas (1923-1977). Daniel Craig, after playing the secret agent 007, is the protagonist of Queeran adaptation of the book of the same name by William S. Burroughs (1985). In this film signed by Luca Guadagnino, the director of Call me by your name (2017), the British actor, naturalized American, plays a forty-something who frequents gay bars and falls in love with a young man (Drew Starkey, revealed in the series Outer Banks). Craig is also fine-tuning his new image wild as the face of Spanish brand Loewe: images of him in worn-out jeans, undone belt and unruly locks cover the walls of Venice’s Marco Polo airport.
The Venice edition also marks the return of Nicole Kidman, in little girlby Dutch director Halina Reijn, presented as an erotic thriller alongside Spaniard Antonio Banderas. In another genre, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore reunite in the drama The room next doorthe first feature film shot in English by the Spaniard Pedro Almodóvar. To complete this “Milky Way” of stars, Cate Blanchett, the star of the series DisclaimerAlfonso Cuarón’s film, which premiered in Venice, electrified festival-goers with a sculptural lamé dress on Wednesday night.
Still in competition, three feature films will defend the colours of France, with their main protagonists: three friendsby Emmanuel Mouret, with Camille Cottin, India Hair, Damien Bonnard and Vincent Macaigne; Their children behind themby Zoran and Ludovic Boukherma, with Paul Kircher, Gilles Lellouche and Ludivine Sagnier; Finally, Play with firea political film by Delphine and Muriel Coulin, starring Vincent Lindon, Benjamin Voisin and Stefan Crepon, the story of a father who sees one of his sons move closer to far-right groups.
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