In the Competition, there is an exceptional concentration of great auteurs: Wes Anderson, Harmony Korine, Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Michel Franco, Lanthimos, Larraín, Michael Mann, and Luc Besson. They are all directors to be counted among the most important in today’s cinema landscape. There are some intriguing surprises among them, including the presence of Besson, who isn’t precisely a regular at major film festivals. The film he has created and is presenting here at the Lido, Dogman, pleasantly caught me off guard. On one hand, it is an action film, as he has always accustomed us to, but on the other hand, it is an ambitious and intricate work capable of surprising and shifting through multiple registers. With the Australian actor Caleb Landry Jones in the lead role, who delivers truly astonishing performances, it’s truly a monumental interpretation
