The city of the doges will be from this Wednesday the point of convergence of the cinema planet. The first major event of the new film season will unveil several of the most anticipated productions of the season as a world premiere.
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Since it regained all its luster, the Venice Film Festival has become much more than a simple film festival. The oldest manifestation of its kind, which is in its 79e edition, indeed sets the tone for a cinematographic season whose culmination will take place next spring. It’s here that the next Oscar race begins to take shape.
Last year, The Power of the Dogby Jane Campion, began its triumphal march in Venice. God’s handby Paolo Sorrentino, had been presented there; The Lost Daughter, by Maggie Gyllenhaal, too. We obviously cannot overlook the memorable presentation of Dunes at the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema as a world premiere. Ten of the stars of the excellent film by Denis Villeneuve, selected out of competition, had also moved for the occasion. Timothée Chalamet, who should be back this year to accompany the presentation of Bones and All, by Luca Guadagnino, had triggered a veritable “Chalamania” in its path. Will it be the same this time?
23 films for a Golden Lion
Twenty-three feature films will wish to seduce the jury, chaired by actress Julianne Moore, with the hope of succeeding The event, by Audrey Diwan, who won the prestigious Golden Lion last year. No less than four of them carry the Netflix label, starting with White Noise, the opening film. Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig star in this new feature by New York auteur Noah Baumbach, whose previous film, Marriage Storyhad also been launched at the Mostra.
Other productions the online broadcaster has high hopes for are bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths), the first film that Alejandro González Iñárritu (birdman, the Revenant) has filmed in Mexico, his country of origin, since loves perros. Blonde hair is also eagerly awaited. Directed by Andrew Dominik (Killing Them Softly, This Much I Know to Be True), this adaptation of the fictionalized biography of Marilyn Monroe written by Joyce Carol Oates stars Ana de Armas.
Other top titles include The Whaleby Darren Aronofsky (black swan), with Brendan Fraser; The Sonby Florian Zeller (The Father), with Hugh Jackman; TARby Todd Field (In the Bedroom, LittleChildren), with Cate Blanchett; Saint-Omerby Alice Diop (We), with Kayije Kagame (who is rumored to be among the favourites); The Banshees of Inisherin, by Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), with Colin Farrell and Brian Gleeson; No Bearsby Jafar Panahi (the filmmaker is still imprisoned in Iran); Other people’s childrenby Rebecca Zlotowski (Grand Central), with Virginie Efira; The Eternal Daughterby Joanna Hogg (The Souvenir), with Tilda Swinton; A coupleby Frederick Wiseman (City Hall); and All the Beauty and the Bloodshedfeature documentary by Laura Poitras (Citizenfour).
As for the films presented out of competition, observers will closely follow Don’t Worry Darlingby Olivia Wilde, with Harry Styles and Florence Pugh; Master Gardener, the new film by Paul Schrader (to whom the festival pays tribute), with Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver; and Dead for a Dollarby Walter Hill, with Christoph Waltz and Willem Dafoe.
A first for Salomé Villeneuve
Set apart A summer like this (Denis Côté), nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, Falcon Lake (Charlotte Le Bon), presented at the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival, and viking (Stéphane Lafleur), which will be launched at the Toronto festival in the competitive Platform section, Quebec productions were few in number on the major international festival circuit this year. So it is in Venice.
However, let us underline the selection, in the Orizzonti Extra section (out of competition), of The origin of evilby Sebastien Marnier (Exit time). Starring Laure Calamy, Suzanne Clément and Jacques Weber, this French film is co-produced by Quebec company micro_scope, led by producers Kim McCraw and Luc Déry. Philippe Brault and Pierre Lapointe sign the musical score.
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Laure Calamy, Jacques Weber and Dominique Blanc are, with Suzanne Clément, the headliners of The origin of evil. The film by Sébatien Marnier, a Franco-Quebec co-production, was selected in the Orizzonti Extra section.
It is also in the official Orizzonti section, somewhat the equivalent of Un certain regard at Cannes, that was selected III, the very first short film by Salomé Villeneuve. The young filmmaker is obviously delighted with this selection, especially since she will thus have the opportunity to taste her very first experience of the genre, in a festival attended by her father, Denis, on a few occasions.
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Salomé Villeneuve will have the honor of presenting IIIhis very first short film, at the 79e Venice Film Festival.
“I have never been to this festival, she confided to The Press Before his departure. However, I have only heard good things, and the idea of going there excites me a lot. »
It’s a huge surprise and an incredible honor because, so I’ve been told, the Mostra is a magnificent celebration of cinema. The idea that my film be presented in this context touches me deeply.
Salome Villeneuve
IIIa drama where three children – an 11-year-old sister and her two younger brothers – express their love-hate relationship with almost no dialogue, will be presented on September 8 as part of a program dedicated to short films competing in the section Orizzonti.
The 79e Venice Film Festival runs from August 31 to September 10.