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LIMELIGHT
2024

    End credits

    Curtains are about to set on the Venice Film Festival. The upcoming TV series M – Il figlio del secolo by Joe Wright is maybe one of the most anticipated premieres in town. Starring as Benito Mussolini an amazing Luca Marinelli. Closing the Competition are two final chapters of as many trilogies. The first is Love (after Sex and Dream) by Norwegian Dag Johan Haugerud – a film on changing sexual mores, and on male homosexuality in particular. The second is an elegy: Youth: Homecoming by Chinese documentarist Wang Bing, a film on the crushed dreams of exploited textile workers...
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      Reality

      Reality barges in in a million different shapes. Let’s start with an out of competition feature, an ‘unauthorized’ documentary by Russian-Canadian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova. Her Russians at War about the current war in Ukraine seeks to steer clear of propaganda on either side, focusing instead on Russian soldiers’ bewilderment and disillusionment. From neighbouring Georgia comes filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili, who participates in the main Competition with her film April, the story of an abortionist midwife who defies law for humanitarian reasons. Iddu by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, starring an unrecognizable Elio Germano...
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        Empathy

        Here comes the day of the Joker. Todd Phillips is looking for strike two with Joker: Folie à deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix and a spectacular Lady Gaga. Will the sequel earn Phillips his second Golden Lion? Coming up against it in the main Competition is Diva Futura by Italian-Texan actress and filmmaker Giulia Louise Steigerwalt: the story of the famous porn talent scout Riccardo Schicchi, played by Pietro Castellitto. There’s one actor that we can tell wouldn’t mind bringing home a Lion, we are talking of Vincent Lindon, who plays the part of a widowed father in The Quiet Son by sister-and-sister filmmaking duo Delphine Coulin and Muriel Coulin...
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          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...
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          LIMELIGHT
          2023

            Survivors

            Transitions and unexpected changes are at the heart of the last three titles in Competition. Kobieta Z... (Woman of), by the Polish filmmakers Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert, is the painful story of a father who day after day experiences more discomfort with his identity. In Hors-saison by Stéphane Brizé, Guillaume Canet and Alba Rohrwacher play a couple who coincidentally find themselves at a spa years after their separation...
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              Coming of Age

              A kind of magical realism opens the Competition. Holly, by Belgian director Fien Troch, tells the story of a teenager with unique premonitory and beneficial powers. With Paradise Is Burning, Mika Gustafson follows the struggles of three sisters abandoned by their mother. Adolescence is also the main topic explored in Gasoline Rainbow by Bill and Turner Ross, where a group of five teenagers embarks on a great escape in a van...
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                Odysseys

                In the competition today, Matteo Garrone’s Me Captain, the highly anticipated epic of Seydou Sarr and Moustapha Fall, two friends who leave Dakar, cross the desert, survive the Libyan hell, and finally embark for Europe. Ava DuVernay follows with Origin, based on Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson...
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                  Crossing the Border

                  With Enea, Pietro Castellitto embarks on an ambitious film, a story of friendship and downfall. Shot semi-covertly, Green Border by Agnieszka Holland portrays the conditions of refugees in the forest on the border between Poland and Belarus. Richard Linklater's Hit Man delves into the story of Gary Johnson, an undercover investigator for the police. A visionary and true maverick director, Shinya Tsukamoto, returns to the consequences of war with Shadow of Fire...
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                  LIMELIGHT
                  2022

                    If I Were Myself

                    From the prison that currently houses him, Jafar Panahi talks to us about an Iran that knows no peace in No Bears, which sees him in a quasi-autobiography interpretation. Our Ties also sees director Roschdy Zem starring as himself, as does talented pianist Tymoteusz Bies in Bread and Salt, the latter directed by Damian Kocur...
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                      This is my story

                      A myriad words and miles of film, fiction and non-, have been spent on Marilyn Monroe. Fifty years since her death, Andrew Dominik set out to explore, more than the myth of Marilyn, Norma Jeane’s inner life in his latest feature film, Blonde, starring Ana de Armas. The film builds upon Joyce Carol Oates’ novel, also titled Blonde...
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                        Mazes

                        After an amazing debut with The Father, Florian Zeller is back with a symmetrical work: The Son, a whirlwind of a story that uproots a borderline family, starring Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, and Vanessa Kirby. Casey Affleck and Zooey Deschanel walk the red carpet for Dreamin‘ Wild by Bill Pohlad, the human and musical story of Donnie and Joe Emerson...
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                          Poised lives

                          The outlook on Italian cinema grows wider thanks to Gianni Amelio’s Il signore delle formiche, inspired by a real criminal case mounted against a homosexual professor in 1960s Italy, accused of ‘brainwashing’ youth. Joana Hogg worked on a recurrent theme at the Festival: mother-daughter relationships, in the shape of a disquieting ghost story: The Eternal Daughter...
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