The 81st Venice International Film Festival is already underway. Yesterday was the pre-opening, with the return in 4K of the old and still fresh comedy of Vittorio De Sica “The Gold of Naples”. Today is the inauguration, with the honorary award to Sigourney Weaver and the world premiere of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” presented by its director, Tim Burton. He is accompanied by his current partner, the Italian Monica BellucciAnd tomorrow the competitions begin.
An Argentine thriller opens the Official Competition: “El jockey”, by Luis Ortegawith Nahuel Perez Biscayart, Ursula Corberothe Mexican Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Daniel Fanego, Osmar Nunez, Luis Ziembrowsky, Roly Serrano, Adriana Aguirre and Mariana Di Girolamo.
The journalists will see it at 9am (which is good, because at all festivals the first day is a perfect turnout to see how the competition starts) and the gala performance will be at 10.15pm. In between, it is safe to assume that the Argentine delegation will eat gnocchi with lots of euros under their plates, because the competitors are to be feared.
In this regard, immediately before “The Jockey” is presented “Maria”by Chilean Pablo Larrain, with Angelina Jolie like Maria Callas. Her gala will be at 7:45 p.m., earlier, but at 50 euros per seat.
In the following days we will see, among others, “The room next door”of Pedro Almodovarwith Tilda Swinton, “Battlefield”of Gianni Amelioabout a doctor in World War I, “The Brutalist”of Brady Corbet, with Adrien Brodand, “Queer”of Luca Guadagninowith 007 Daniel Craig in the role of a homosexual, and, almost closing the competition, to impress more in the balance sheets, “Joker: Folly of Two”of Todd Phillipswith Joaquin Phoenix and the incorporation of Lady Gaga.
Separate paragraph, “I’m still here”I’m still here, of Walter Sallesabout Eunice Paivawife of a deputy who disappeared during the Brazilian military dictatorship. She searched for him in prisons and barracks, raised her five children, studied law, specialized in indigenous law, co-founded a private institute of anthropology and the environment and 25 years later managed to get the government to recognize what had happened to her husband.
All this was told in a book that became a best seller by one of his sons, the writer Marcelo Rubens Paivawho may be in Venice with Walter Salles and the two actresses who play his mother: Fernanda Torres and the venerable Fernanda Montenegroremembered worldwide as the protagonist of “Central Station”a film with which Salles and she won the Oscar in 1999.
The competencies
21 titles compete in the Official Section, 19 in Orizzonti, which opens tomorrow with “Nonsistence”of and with Valerio Mastandrea, co-starring Dolores Fonzi like the woman who changes the protagonist’s schemes, 22 in other sections of Orizzonti, 26 in Venezia Inmersiva, 7 from Africa and the Middle East in Working Progress, another 7 in Critics’ Week, and that’s not counting all the parallel sections out of competition, where, for example, a short from Argentina appears Laura Citarella, “The Miu Miu Affair”in the section Miu Miu Women’s Tales from the women’s goods company Prada.
There, outside of competition, there are films of Takeshi Kitano, Claude Lelouchwho will receive the Cartier Glory Award, Peter Weir, who will receive another honorary award, Francesca Comencini, Marco Bellocchio, Jon Watts (“Wolves”, with George Cloney and Brad Pitt), Asif Kapadia, Petra Costa (“Apocalypse in the tropics”on management Bolsonaro), Errol Morris, Amos Gitai and Sergio RubinYo.
There will also be new series of Alfonso Cuaron, Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Thomas Vinterberg17 classics restored to new, from “The gold of Naples” and “Forbidden games”of René Clementhereinafter referred to as a special function of “The Postman” in memory of Massimo Troisia film that had music by the Italian-Argentine Luis Bacalov and as leitmotif the tango “Honeysuckle” of Amadori and Canaro.
Portraits of are announced Leni Riefensthal, Hayao Miyazaki, Gian Maria Volonté (“the man of a thousand faces”) and other good ones, talks and classes open to the public Weaver, Weir, Nicola Piovani (the musician of “Life is Beautiful” and “We Don’t Talk About That”).
That’s a real international class A film festival. In the 90s, Mar del Plata was heading in that direction. Now, for the moment, it risks being deleted from some desktop.
Source: Ambito
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