30 august 2025 - Festival del Cinema di Venezia

More than a genre or a character, Frankenstein and its myth function almost as a cinematic hypertext: after Whale, Branagh, the Hammer films, and countless variations, Guillermo del Toro’s version competes this year (he won the Golden Lion in 2017 for The Shape of Water), with Oscar Isaac in the title role, Jacob Elordi as the Creature, and Christoph Waltz, Mia Goth, and Lars Mikkelsen. Lars is the older brother of Mads Mikkelsen (the extraordinary Bastarden, Venice 80), the prince of Danish actors, who we will also see out of competition in The Last Viking by Anders Thomas Jensen, a very dark comedy about two brothers hunting for a “forgotten” treasure...

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Soundtrack

Daily #4

ORPHAN_The two Russian-born, French-naturalized brothers Evgenij and Saša Gal’perin, active in cinema for over two decades, have always worked within a rigorous syncretism... JAY KELLY_New York composer and pianist Nicholas Britell, favors his instrument of choice, bending it...

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Director's Cut

The film of his life

For the Mexican director, Frankenstein is the film of his life. It’s a project he’s dreamed of for years, a version of Frankenstein that has inspired many of his other works, particularly his other “monsters.” This is a film he has longed to make but was unable to, due to the high production costs. Thanks to Netflix’s resources, this long-awaited project has finally come to life...

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STAMPA INTERNAZIONALE | INTERNATIONAL CRITICS

INTERNATIONAL CRITICS

SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

THE HOLLYWOOD

REPORTER

THE FILM VERDICT

Boris Bastide

Le Monde

BEN CROLL

INDIEWIRE

JONATHAN ROMNEY

THE OBSERVER

TOMMASO KOCH

EL PAIS

J.H. Leitao Ramos

EXPRESSO

BARBARA HOLLENDER

rzeczpospolita

Daniel Kothenschulte

FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU

SCREEN INTERNAT.

HOLLYWOOD R.

FILM VERDICT

Le Monde

INDIEWIRE

THE OBSERVER

EL PAIS

THE TIMES

rzeczpospolita

FRANKFURTER R.

À PIED D’OEUVRE

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NO OTHER CHOICE

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TUTTE LE VOTAZIONI | ALL RATINGS

COVER STORY

LATE FAME by Kent Jones

ON SCREEN

Concorso Venezia 82

FRANKENSTEIN

Concorso Venezia 82

SOTTO LE NUVOLE

Orizzonti

ROSE OF NEVADA

Venice Classics

LO SPETTRO

Venice Classics Doc

LOUIS MALLE, LE RÉVOLTÉ

Biennale College Cinema

ONE WOMAN ONE BRA

Interviews

The Ghosts of Time

by Marisa Santin

In Mark Jenkin’s Cornwall, following the course of the Rose of Nevada

Interviews

Spaces of Resistance

by Davide Carbone

A conversation with Beatrice Fiorentino, delegate of the 40th Critics’ Week

Highlights

Hichcock vs. Hitchcock

by Giorgio Placereani

The Ghost of Riccardo Freda, between Italian gothic, melodrama, and irony

Highlights

The Defining Chance

by Giorgio Placereani

Kieślowski’s dialectic of freedom and destin

The version of...

Arthur Schnitzler

by Loris Casadei

The novel on which the Kent Jones film is based

Focus

Frankenstein

by Andrea Zennaro

Six film versions of Shelley's monster

The version of...

Mary Shelley

by Loris Casadei

A new cinematic version of Shelley's classic

Highlights

Screen on Fire

by Adele Spinelli

A workshop on rights, inclusion, and cinematic language with Poggi, Vinel e Sciamma

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press conference

palazzo del casinò

12.10 BROKEN ENGLISH (Out of Competition– Non Fiction)
12.50 DEN SIDSTE VIKING (THE LAST VIKING) (Out of Competition - Fiction)
13.30 SOTTO LE NUVOLE (Venezia 82)
14.10 FRANKENSTEIN (Venezia 82)
14.50 LA VALLE DEI SORRISI (Out of Competition - Fiction)

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

11:00

Sala Corinto

LO SPETTRO

Riccardo Freda

(95')

13:15

Sala Perla

ISH

Imran Perretta

(89')

14:00

Sala Grande

BROKEN ENGLISH

Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth

(96')

14:15

Sala Darsena

ROSE OF NEVADA

Mark Jenkin

(114')

14:30

Sala Corinto

BLIND CHANCE

Krzysztof Kieślowski

(123')

15:00

Sala Casinò

UN PROPHÈTE (EP. 1-8)

Enrico Maria Artale

(211')

16:15

Sala Grande

SOTTO LE NUVOLE

Gianfranco Rosi

(115')

16:15

Sala Perla

SHORT SUMMER

Nastia Korkia

(101')

17:00

Sala Darsena

LATE FAME

Kent Jones

(90')

17:00

Sala Corinto

LOUIS MALLE, LE RÉVOLTÉ

Claire Duguet

(65')

17:00

Sala Giardino

ONE WOMAN ONE BRA

Vincho Nchogu

(80')

18:45

Sala Grande

FRANKENSTEIN

Guillermo Del Toro

(149')

21:00

Sala Giardino

MOTOR CITY

Potsy Ponciroli

(103')

21:00

Sala Laguna

AMATA

Elisa Amoruso

(100')

21:45

Sala Grande

THE LAST VIKING

Anders Thomas Jensen

(116')

00:15

Sala Grande

LA VALLE DEI SORRISI

Paolo Strippoli

(122')

BEST FROM THE PHOTOCALL

Soundtrack

Daily #4

Music&Movies

Highlights

Hichcock vs. Hitchcock

Focus

Werner Herzog

Deep inside

Venice Immersive

Blur

Virtual Screens

past conference

I was interested in the approach to criminology, this way of looking at the bearer of evil so as not to leave him nailed to the wall like a butterfly for life.

Leonardo di Costanzo

On behalf of all of us actors and in the name of the entire team, we ask: isn't it enough? Enough of the mass killing, the starvation, the dehumanization, the destruction, the ongoing occupation?

The Voice of Hind Rajab – Film delegation

In the meantime, we are really living in a house of dynamite

Kathryn Bigelow

The film is not about the wins and the losses. It’s about what happens when winning becomes the enemy, and we can all correlate to that pressure

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson

I don’t really know where the hell the story came from

Jim Jarmush

I discovered a phrase by Cocteau that says that Vesuvius produces all the clouds in the world: a wonderful image of this silent but active volcano, which becomes an accomplice of the skies of the world

Gianfranco Rosi

Which of my films do represent me the most? You cannot ask a mother which of your children represents your best, all of them. I love them all, and they’re all wonderful, and they couldn’t get any better.

Werner Herzog

What the film says, if anything, is that this dystopia is happening now, humanity is facing a reckoning very soon, I don’t know how much time we have left

Yorgos Lanthimos

The Creature in this movie is the purest form of myself – it’s more me than I am.

Jacob Elordi

Soon I was seated next to Francis Coppola watching a restoration of a 1938 silent film, and I thought, I’m in heaven!

Alexander Payne

Anytime, during those two decades, I would tell this story to the people around me and no matter where I told it, no matter what country or culture, they would all relate to the story

Park Chan-wook

Creating something is on the one hand an immense joy, on the other also a pain. You have to be persevering, consistent, you have to believe. You doubt, you are afraid. Even the work of creation is violent.

Valérie Donzelli

I think that even the lies of people tell the truth, as we know very well in many places in the world right now.

Luca Guadagnino

We are challenging people to have conversation, to be excited or to be infuriated by that. It’s up to you

Julia Roberts

How do you know I’m not an alien?

Emma Stone

Pardon is not only a legal instrument available to the President of the Republic but a sort of attitude towards the world and life, which is also a loving attitude.

Paolo Sorrentino

The director spent 15 years reconstructing the complexities of this emblematic figure through direct testimonies. Mother Teresa is a symbol of assistance to the poor, but her character is also complex, contradictory, and at times even ambiguous. This complexity is brought to life in full by Noomi Rapace’s extraordinary performance, which captures every nuance of this controversial figure