30 august 2024 - Festival del Cinema di Venezia

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Dangerous Connections

Kurosawa Kiyoshi and the dark side of action cinema

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TROIS AMIES

by Emmanuel Mouret

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BABYGIRL

by Halina Reijn

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DISCLAIMER

by Alfonso Cuarón

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friday, 30 august 2024

Masks off

Yes, masks off, today, our third day at the Venice Film Festival. The first mask to go is that of roles and genres – says Halina Reijn, who once teased Gen Z with inflammatory horror Bodies Bodies Bodies, and this year is in the main competition with Babygirl, a spark-filled lovers’ story starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson. Second mask to go (we’re still in love territory) is the one that gives that reassuring allure of stability, the one that keeps us pushing through even when nothing seems to go right...

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Soundtrack

John Lennon

Between one of the events narrated in Andrei Ujică’s TWST / Things We Said Today and those in Kevin Macdonald’s and Sam Rice-Edward’s One to One. John & Yoko, seven years passed...

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Daily #3

Review of the soundtracks of Nonostante and Maria ...

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Director's Cut

To be here

We didn’t have to insist on anyone; indeed, all the big names have immediately expressed their willingness to be here, despite being very busy with shooting movies and many other professional deadlines. Everyone made sure to be able to come at the Lido even if only for 24 or 36 hours. In the past there had always been some defections, as is normal...

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FRANKFURTER R.

MARIA

☆☆☆☆☆ 3/5

☆☆☆☆☆ 3.5/5

☆☆☆☆☆ 2/5

☆☆☆☆☆ 2.5/5

☆☆☆☆☆ 4/5

☆☆☆☆☆ 3.5/5

☆☆☆☆☆ 4/5

☆☆☆☆☆ 3/5

EL JOKEY

☆☆☆☆☆ 4/5

☆☆☆☆☆ 2.5/5

☆☆☆☆☆ 3.5/5

☆☆☆☆☆ 3/5

☆☆☆☆☆ 1.5/5

☆☆☆☆☆ 3/5

☆☆☆☆☆ 4/5

ALL THE Venezia 81 International Critics’ Movies Ratings

COVER STORY

CLOUD

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ON SCREEN

Orizzonti

MARCO

Orizzonti

DICIANNOVE

Orizzonti Extra

VITTORIA

Biennale College Cinema

THE FISHERMAN

Venice Classics

THE SOFT SKIN

Venice Classics Doc

CARLO MAZZACURATI – UNA CERTA IDEA DI CINEMA

INTERVIEWS

The greatest impostor

The incredible story of Enric Marco in a film by Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño

Dangerous Connections

Kurosawa Kiyoshi and the dark side of action cinema

Out-of-home life

Giovanni Tortorici's debut work between autobiography and fiction

Focus

Alfonso Cuarón

by Cesare Stradaioli

Focus on the mexican director, this year in Venice with his "Disclaimer"

Highlights

Marcello, come here…!

by Redazione VeNews

At San Servolo Island, an exhibition dedicated to Mastroianni on the centenary of his birth

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Jeanne Moreau

by Cesare Stradaioli

Focus on the French actress, present in Venice in the restored classic "La notte"

Highlights

Truffaut vs Truffaut

by Giorgio Placereani

"The Soft Skin" returns to the festival in a restored version

Venice Immersive

The Gossips’ Chronicles

by Riccardo Triolo

Perspectives, worlds, circuits yet to be invented for the immersive arts

Highlights

The Juries of Venice 81

by F.D.S.

Isabelle Huppert and Debra Granik leading the Competition and Horizons

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press conference

palazzo del casinò

12.30 ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO (Out of Competition)
13.15 BABYGIRL (Venezia 81)
14.00 TROIS AMIES (THREE FRIENDS) (Venezia 81)
14.45 CLOUD (Out of Competition)

Solo accreditati, prenotazione obbligatoria/ Press holders, only upon reservation

10:45

Sala Perla

Venice Days

KORA

Cláudia Varejão

(23')

10:45

Sala Perla

Venice Days

SOUDAN, SOUVIENS-TOI

Hind Meddeb

(76')

11:00

Sala Corinto

Venice Classics

THE SOFT SKIN

François Truffaut

(117')

13:30

Sala Perla

Film Critics’ Week

HOMEGROWN

Michael Premo

(104')

13:50

Sala Grande

Out of Competition

ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO

Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards

(100')

14:00

Sala Darsena

Orizzonti

DICIANNOVE

Giovanni Tortorici

(109')

14:15

Sala Corinto

Venice Classics

LA NOTTE

Michelangelo Antonioni

(125')

15:00

Sala Casinò

Out of Competition

ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV (1958 – 1989)

Göran Hugo Olsson

(202')

16:00

Sala Grande

Out of Competition

DISCLAIMER (ep. 5-7)

Alfonso Cuarón

(148')

16:30

Sala Perla

Venice Days

ANTIKVARIATI

Rusudan Glurjidze

(132')

16:45

Sala Darsena

Orizzonti

MARCO

Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi

(108')

17:00

sala Corinto

Venice Classics Doc

CARLO MAZZACURATI – UNA CERTA IDEA DI CINEMA

Mario Canale, Enzo Monteleone

(96')

17:00

Sala Giardino

Biennale College Cinema

THE FISHERMAN

Zoey Martinson

(112')

19:00

Sala Grande

Concorso Venezia 81

BABYGIRL

Halina Reijn

(114')

19:15

Sala Grande

Concorso Venezia 81

SICILIAN LETTERS

Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza

(122')

21:00

Sala Laguna

Notti Veneziane

TENGA DURO SIGNORINA! ISABELLA DUCROT UNLIMITED

Monica Stambrini

(87')

21:00

Sala Giardino

Orizzonti Extra

VITTORIA

Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman

(89')

00:00

Sala Grande

Out of Competition

CLOUD

Kurosawa Kiyoshi

(123')

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Interviews

The reason for peace

A meeting with...

The version of...

Indian epic

From words to screen

Limelight

There’s no Planet B

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When I read the script I found everything so far-fetched that, as an actor, a highway of verisimilitude opened up.

Toni Servillo

It's a film about a man who managed to live the life he wanted to live, when the profession didn't yet exist, he had to create the world and then work on it.

Pietro Castellito

They represent hidden desire, and people accept that desire only if it remains secret and somewhat despised.

Giulia Steigerwalt

If you are imagining what this movie is like and then you go see it you realize you couldn't have possibly thought of it on your own.

Lady Gaga

It's not a movie about the Beatles, it's the spirit of those years, the spirit of the beat generation, it's a film about us and the ways in which our emotional profile has been changed. It was a challenge to make a film about a band that changed the spirit of an entire group.

Andrei Ujică

We had to find every day what was the truth, what was the honest moment.

Lady Gaga

One of the hallmarks of great actors is the capacity of being very ‘mortal’ on screen. Very few iconic actors allow their fragility to be seen, and Daniel is undoubtedly one of them-

Luca Guadagnino

I think there’s an incredible life force in Pedro’s movies. When you watch them, it’s almost as if you can feel everyone’s heartbeat.

Julianne Moore

This movie does everything we're told not to do...

Brady Corbet

Let’s concentrate on what can be created to make a better future, we have done enough wars.

Amos Gitai

I think one of the aims of every actor is to find humanity in his character, and humanity can only be contradiction.

Ludivine Sagnier

There was a lot of discussion about facial hair. I mean, every agent I interviewed to prepare for the role/character had a mustache, so it was given to grow a mustache…

Jude Law

Gianni never tells you ‘I found a solution’, but ‘What do you think if...?’. He makes you part of the process and for me that's a fundamental thing to do well in this job.

Alessandro Borghi

When you find something so timeless and extraordinary as the only full-length concert that John did outside of the Beatles, you can’t just put that out, there’s far too much to say about it.

Alice Webb (Producer “One to one – John and Yoko”)

Now the internet seems to me to have become something taken for granted, a medium that anyone can use. But now I started to imagine and ask myself: "What happens in people's hearts?"

Kurosawa Kiyoshi

The female orgasm, that’s serious, people! Take note, men…

Halina Reijn

Halina [Reijn] is an actress, she would be able to play every role in the film and very very well, so that… is going to be the sequel!

Nicole Kidman

We all have things we want to hide, not necessarily because we have done something wrong. We all are the heroes of our own narratives.

Cate Blanchett

Truth still does count in our world. they can deny it, they can use a hundred euphemisms to describe it, but the reality of what they did can be shown, can be proven and should be dealt with. Truth matters!

Errol Morris

I probably listen to The Clash more than most, but when your life is falling and you feel a certain level of despair, of pain, of love... Opera seems to be the only sound that can explain that pain.

Angelina Jolie

I consider myself a "Although", as I consider the characters and people around me in life to be so, because they are the most flawed but most interesting people, with whom we then grow step by step.

Valerio Mastandrea

I always wanted to make an Italian horror film... and I ticked that box! No I truly did, I've been a huge fan of like Mario Bava and Freda... Dario Argento, you know, all these people and so, for me, yeah, I can say i did it!

Tim Burton

Making a film represents courage, perseverance, determination. Film is a single word that refers to an entire world; so my hope is that this word can continue to exist as long as possible