He Venice Film Festival This year will open with the movie The Graziaof Paolo Sorrentino.
With the Oscar winning director forming team again with Toni Servillothe film of the inaugural night – whose name is translated as “grace” in Spanish – will have its world premiere in competition in Lido on Wednesday, August 27. Although the details of the plot are unknown, the actress of Anna Ferzetti diamonds It will also participate.
A new edition of the Venice Film Festival arrives
“I am very happy that the 82nd International Film Festival in Venice is inaugurated with the new and long -awaited film by Paolo Sorrentino,” said Festival director Alberto Barbera.
“I like to remember that one of the most important and acclaimed Italian authors internationally debuted here at the Venice Biennale in 2001 with his first film, One Man Up, in my early years as an artistic director.”
He continued: “The relationship with the Venice Film Festival was consolidated over the years with the out of competition of the first episodes of the series Young Pope (one and two seasons) and, above all, with The Hand of God that, in 2021, won the Silver-Gran Lion Award of the Jury.”
“The return of Paolo Sorrentino at the competition comes with a film aimed at leaving a mark for his great originality and powerful news,” he added, “that the public of the Venice Film Festival will have the pleasure of discovering on the opening night.”
The Grazia, written and directed by Sorrentino, is a Fremantle film produced by The Apartment, a Fremantle company, by number 10 and by Piperfilm that will distribute it in Italy.
MUBI has world rights, except in Italy. The Match Factory manages international sales.
Source: Ambito
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