Breaking… worse

Former Agent 007 Daniel Craig in queer version – desperate and addicted in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer – is one of the most anticipated performances in Competition. The film faces off Harvest by Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari, adapted from Jim Crace’s novel of the same name and starring Caleb Landry Jones. Out of Competition, the montage documentary 2073 by Asif Kapadia imagines what the world will look like in fifty years. Spoiler: not well at all. Belgian filmmaker Fabrice Du Welz worked on the infamous case of Belgian serial rapist and killer Marc Dutroux, who inflamed the country in the 1990s. In the Orizzonti section, plenty space for women and women’s stories, starting with indie American filmmaker Sarah Friedland, whose Familiar Touch is a reflection on old age, and following with Carine Tardieu’s L’attachement, starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi. More on other sections: in the International Film Critics’ week line-up is Don’t Cry, Butterfly by Vietnamese filmmaker Du’o’ng Diêu Linh: betrayal, dream, reality, and magic. Two women, similar yet different, are the protagonists in Taxi monamour by Ciro De Caro. TV series Los años nuevos by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Sara Cano, and Paula Fabra is a ten-episode story of ten New Year’s Days of a couple in their thirties. Last but not least, Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries is an ‘encyclopedic journey’ through the animal, plant, and mineral worlds, directed by Massimo D’Adinolfi and Martina Parenti.