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The reason for peace

Amos Gitai explores the dialogue between Einstein and Freud on war
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The fragile balance

Anne-Sophie Bailly signs a family drama between love and addiction
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A Simple Silence

Quintero returns to Venice Immersive with the last chapter of the trilogy
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Battleground

by Gianni Amelio
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saturday, 31 august 2024

Why wars?

What if Einstein and Freud explained to us the reason for war? Amos Gitai’s Why was born in the aftermath of the Hamas attack and Israeli counter-attack. Gianni Amelio’s Battleground (Competition) is also a war story, the story of two soldiers of opposite visions and a shared love for Anna on the backdrop of...
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Daily #4

If these two films -- Trois amies and Babygirl -- made it into the line-up to legitimize, in the words of Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera, a Festival that found again sexuality as a subject matter to reflect on, well, we must say that once again Europe lags far behind the USA as far as...
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THE question

Amos Gitai presents Out of Competition Why War, focused on an exchange of letters which took place in the 30s between Einstein and Freud where they question each other why man in the course of his history has always chosen war as a solution to the contrasts and conflicts afflicting the world...
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ALL THE Venezia 81 International Critics’ Movies Ratings

COVER STORY

HIGH STAKES (A night in the ward)

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Open field

by Massimo Bran
Gianni Amelio elects Friuli as the ideal set for his new film
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The genius of crime

by Andrea Zennaro
The mastery of Fritz Lang in a cinema classic
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Pusher

The beginning of the end

by Andrea Zennaro
Venice Classics presents the first chapter of the fateful Pusher trilogy
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Laure Calamy

by Delphine Trouillard
Focus on the French actress in Venice this year with "Mon insèparable"
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William P. McGivern

by Loris Casadei
From the pages of McGivern's novel to Lang's masterpiece
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Because today

by Massimo Bran
A masterclass with Patti Smith and Stephan Crasneanscki at Isola Edipo
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12.00 WHY WAR (Out of Competition)
12.40 LEURS ENFANTS APRÈS EUX (Venezia 81)
13.20 FAMILIER SOM VORES (FAMILIES LIKE OURS) (Out of Competition – Series)
14.00 CAMPO DI BATTAGLIA (Venezia 81)
14.40 THE ORDER (Venezia 81)
15.20 BABY INVASION (Out of Competition)

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movies

13:30

Sala Perla

  • Film Critics’ Week

PEACOCK

Bernhard Wenger

(102')

14:00

Sala Grande

  • Out of Competition

WHY WAR

Amos Gitai

(90')

14:15

Sala Darsena

  • Orizzonti

WISHING ON A STAR

Péter Kerekes

(99')

14:30

Sala Corinto

  • Venice Classics

PUSHER

Nicolas Winding Refn

(109')

14:30

Sala Corinto

  • Out of Competition

BEAUTY IS NOT A SIN

Nicolas Winding Refn

(7')

15:00

Sala Casinò

  • Out of Competition

FAMILIES LIKE OURS (EP. 1–4)

Thomas Vinterberg

(195')

16:00

Sala Grande

  • Concorso Venezia 81

AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM

Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma

(144')

16:30

Sala Perla

  • Venice Days

BOOMERANG

Shahab Fotouhi

(83')

16:45

Sala Darsena

  • Orizzonti

MON INSÉPARABLE

Anne-Sophie Bailly

(95')

17:00

Sala Giardino

  • Biennale College Cinema

JANUARY 2

Zsófia Szilágyi

(87')

17:15

Sala Corinto

  • Venice Classics Doc

MIYAZAKI, L’ESPRIT DE LA NATURE

Leo Favier

(84')

19:00

Sala Grande

  • Concorso Venezia 81

BATTLEGROUND

Gianni Amelio

(103')

21:00

Sala Laguna

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HIGH STAKES – A NIGHT IN THE WARD

Giovanni Dota

(84')

21:00

Sala Giardino

  • Orizzonti Extra

LA STORIA DEL FRANK E DELLA NINA

Paola Randi

(105')

21:30

Sala Grande

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THE ORDER

Justin Kurzel

(116')

23:55

Sala Grande

  • Out of Competition

BABY INVASION

Harmony Korine

(80')

23:55

Sala Grande

  • Out of Competition

BABY INVASION

Harmony Korine

(80')

81. VENICE FILM FESTIVAL PHOTOCALLS' DAILY PICK

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

Toni Servillo

Pietro Castellito
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

Giulia Steigerwalt

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

Giulia Steigerwalt

Lady Gaga

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

Andrei Ujică
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

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

Lady Gaga

Luca Guadagnino
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

Julianne Moore
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

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

Brady Corbet

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

Amos Gitai

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

Ludivine Sagnier

Jude Law
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

Alessandro Borghi
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

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

Kurosawa Kiyoshi

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

Halina Reijn

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

Halina Reijn

Nicole Kidman
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

Cate Blanchett

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

Errol Morris
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

Angelina Jolie
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

Valerio Mastandrea
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

Tim Burton
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

Isabelle Huppert
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

Isabelle Huppert

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