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  • friday, 1 september 2023

Creatures

by Roberto Pugliese

A special, very-Italian day, starring youth trying to make their space in the world. In Competition, Saverio Costanzo presents Finally Dawn, a raw, piercing look on 1950s Cinecittà. A story of foiled aspirations and delicate equilibriums are all about An Endless Sunday (Orizzonti) by Alain Parroni, while in the Orizzonti Extra section, we will appreciate Micaela Ramazzotti’s directorial debut with Happiness, a story of emancipation for a brother and sister oppressed by their parents. Add to this the Biennale College’s entry, The Year of the Egg by debutant Claudio Casale.
Back to the Competition, The Promised Land by Nikolaj Arcel is a story of the making of modern Denmark starring Mads Mikkelsen, and Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos is a modern Frankenstein spin-off starring Emma Stone as the creature and Willem Dafoe as the titular character. And the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award goes to… Wes Anderson!

 
All the photocalls' Daily pick

    Survivors

    Transitions and unexpected changes are at the heart of the last three titles in Competition. Kobieta Z... (Woman of), by the Polish filmmakers Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert, is the painful story of a father who day after day experiences more discomfort with his identity. In Hors-saison by Stéphane Brizé, Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher play a couple who coincidentally find themselves at a spa years after their separation...
    LEGGI

      Coming of Age

      A kind of magical realism opens the Competition. Holly, by Belgian director Fien Troch, tells the story of a teenager with unique premonitory and beneficial powers. With Paradise Is Burning, Mika Gustafson follows the struggles of three sisters abandoned by their mother. Adolescence is also the main topic explored in Gasoline Rainbow by Bill and Turner Ross, where a group of five teenagers embarks on a great escape in a van...
      LEGGI

        Odysseys

        In the competition today, Matteo Garrone’s Me Captain, the highly anticipated epic of Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall, two friends who leave Dakar, cross the desert, survive the Libyan hell, and finally embark for Europe. Ava DuVernay follows with Origin, based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson...
        LEGGI

          Crossing the Border

          With Enea, Pietro Castellitto embarks on an ambitious film, a story of friendship and downfall. Shot semi-covertly, Green Border by Agnieszka Holland portrays the conditions of refugees in the forest on the border between Poland and Belarus. Richard Linklater's Hit Man delves into the story of Gary Johnson, an undercover investigator for the police. A visionary and true maverick director, Shinya Tsukamoto, returns to the consequences of war with Shadow of Fire...
          LEGGI

            In Between Two Fires

            Woody Allen brings his Parisian and Francophone film Coup de chance to the Lido, a bourgeois drama starring Niels Schneider and Lou de Laâge; cinematography by Vittorio Storaro. The story revolves around a young couple threatened by the presence of a charming bohemian writer. Another bourgeois drama with much more dramatic atmospheres is Sofia Coppola's Priscilla (Competition), which tells the turbulent love story and betrayals of Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi) and his wife Priscilla (Cailee Spaeny)...
            LEGGI

              Going Gothic

              David Fincher, the brilliant and restless leader of post-Hollywood, returns to the Venice Competition with The Killer, a dark psychological thriller adapted from the graphic novel by Matz and Jacamon. In an eerie future, the French director Bertrand Bonello explores the dystopian world of La Bête, where Léa Seydoux pursues her own past in a society that fears emotions. In the German film Die Theorie von Allem by Timm Kröger, a scientist from the 1960s must face a genuine nightmare...
              LEGGI

                Let the Music Start

                In Maestro, Bradley Cooper directs and plays the life of Leonard Bernstein, the most iconic, outgoing, and multifaceted musical personality of the 20th century, with a focus on his tumultuous relationship with his wife, Felicia (Carey Mulligan). A completely different tune is that of Texan rapper Travis Scott, the idol of young crowds, co-starring in AGGRO DR1FT, an experimental and neo-psychedelic immersion in a noir style by Harmony Korine, already a maverick in the American landscape...
                LEGGI

                  Creatures

                  A special, very-Italian day, starring youth trying to make their space in the world. In Competition, Saverio Costanzo presents Finally Dawn, a raw, piercing look on 1950s Cinecittà. A story of foiled aspirations and delicate equilibriums are all about An Endless Sunday (Orizzonti) by Alain Parroni, while in the Orizzonti Extra section, we will appreciate Micaela Ramazzotti’s directorial debut with Happiness, a story of emancipation for a brother and sister oppressed by their parents. Add to this the Biennale College’s entry, The Year of the Egg by debutant Claudio Casale.
                  LEGGI

                    Parallel Lives

                    A creator and a destructor – two lives, compared. In the main competition, we will today watch Ferrari by Michael Mann, starring an unrecognizable Adam Driver in the role of the car racing legend, and El Conde by Pablo Larraín, a grotesque horror variation on the difficult history of Chile, seeing Augusto Pinochet transforming into himself: a bloodthirsty vampire. But keep an eye on Dogman too, it marks Luc Besson's return to his typical adrenaline-fueled and hyperbolic style with the portrayal of a marginalized man in tight and vengeful communication with his loyal dogs.
                    LEGGI

                      The Law of the Sea

                      A past that speaks to the present and a present that fears the future. This is the story of Salvatore Todaro, the commander of the submarine “Cappellini”, who in 1940 sank an armed enemy merchant ship in the Atlantic. Todaro then rescued the shipwrecked crew and, in accordance with the laws of the sea and at great risk, brought them to a safe harbor. The opening film, Comandante by Edoardo De Angelis, starring Pierfrancesco Favino, now holds an ethical significance that needs no emphasis.
                      LEGGI

                      FINALMENTE L’ALBA

                      by Saverio Costanzo
                      FINALMENTE L’ALBA

                      After the interlude of the television series My Brilliant Friend, the director of The Solitude of Prime ...

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                      AN ENDLESS SUNDAY

                      by Alain Parroni
                      UNA STERMINATA DOMENICA

                      Brenda is pregnant. Alex has just turned 19, and he will soon be a father. Kevin writes his name in every corner of t...

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                      FELICITÀ

                      by Micaela Ramazzotti

                      The directorial debut of Micaela Ramazzotti is a story about the trials and tribulations of a young woman aspiring to...

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                      THE YEAR OF EGG

                      by Claudio Casale
                      L’ANNO DELL’UOVO

                      Gemma and Adriano are a young couple expecting their first child, and they have decided to bring their child into the...

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                      BASTARDEN

                      by Nikolaj Arcel
                      BASTARDEN

                      In the mid-1700s, Jutlandic heath was a God-forgotten wasteland, home to wolves and outlaws. Nature itself knew how t...

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                      POOR THINGS

                      by Yorgos Lanthimos
                      POOR THINGS

                      Based on the 1992 novel of the same name by Alasdair Gray, the irreverent new work by Yorgos Lanthimos revisits the t...

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                      THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR

                      by Wes Anderson
                      THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR

                      Londoner Henry Sugar (Cumberbatch) is a well-to-do man with an unfettered passion for gambling and risk. Having learn...

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