“Jorge!”, “Brado!”. On the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival, George Clooney and Brad Pitt advanced like toys with a long-lasting battery… They never stop: a few steps to the left, then to the right, and in turn the clamor of fans from one side or the other. It lasted a good forty-five minutes, on Sunday 1Ahem September, around 10:00 p.m., before the screening, out of competition, of wolves. The police film by Jon Watts, director of the third part of Spider-Man, Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021), deals with self-loathing and introduces two lone wolves (George and Brad) who will have to learn to work together.
“This is my wife!” (That’s my wife), Clooney said, not a little proudly, brandishing the hand of his wife, lawyer Amal Clooney, as the actor took his place in the Great Room. Meanwhile, Brad Pitt formalized his romance with jewelry designer Inés de Ramón – just like his ex-wife, Angelina Jolie, on the poster for the biopic. MariaPablo Larraín’s film had already left Venice in the race for the Golden Lion. Then the room went dark and the film began.
the action of wolves focuses on a single night in New York, inspired by Collateral (2004) by Michael Mann, shot in Los Angeles: actors in the car, then on the subway… The comparison ends there. wolves It’s an entertaining piece of entertainment that struggles to find its rhythm, at least in the first few minutes, with more or less successful gags and a failed plot involving evil Albanians. But we appreciate the performance of the young American actor Austin Abrams, 28, whose character runs for almost two hours, with a crazy agility like Buster Keaton (he played in particular in the series). Euphoria AND The Living Dead.
intimate explosion
wolves is one of the most anticipated feature films at the Mostra. The kind of work that we designate only with the name of the director. In competition we saw “Pablo Larrain” but also “Walter Salles” (I’m still here), the “Mouret” (three friends), and the “Almodóvar” (The room next door). All of these films are not inferior, but rather fall short of what their authors have already achieved in the past. So, no enthusiasm here.
in the movement I’m still hereWalter Salles is inspired by the story of the deputy Rubens Paiva (1929-1971), a victim of the dictatorship, kidnapped by state agents, then tortured and murdered. His wife, Eunice Paiva, while still raising their children, reinvented herself and continued to fight to demand first the release of her husband, then the certificate of his death… The story focuses on the intimate explosion caused by the loss of this Man: if the passage from happiness – a family dream listening to music over and over again – to darkness is quite effective, the drama becomes a little academic and sometimes turns into a tearjerker.
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