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LIMELIGHT
2024

    Masters

    Peter Weir, one of the most consistent innovators in Australian cinema, and Claude Lelouch, a legend of French cinema. Today, they are both honored with significant awards: the first with a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, and we will see again his maritime epic Master & Commander (2003) starring Russell Crowe; the second receives the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award and presents his brand-new Finalement, starring...
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      Face to face

      Brad Pitt faces off with George Clooney in Wolfs (Out of Competition) by Jon Watts, the director of the most vibrant Spider-Man reboots from Marvel. The two stars, playing rival hitmen hired for the same job, reunite after Soderbergh’s Ocean’s trilogy and the Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading. More stars are in Competition in a story that contrasts the dizzying heights and drastic lows of a promising European architect who moves to...
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        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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          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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          LIMELIGHT
          2023

            In Between Two Fires

            Woody Allen brings his Parisian and Francophone film Coup de chance to the Lido, a bourgeois drama starring Niels Schneider and Lou de Laâge; cinematography by Vittorio Storaro. The story revolves around a young couple threatened by the presence of a charming bohemian writer. Another bourgeois drama with much more dramatic atmospheres is Sofia Coppola's Priscilla (Competition), which tells the turbulent love story and betrayals of Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi) and his wife Priscilla (Cailee Spaeny)...
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              Going Gothic

              David Fincher, the brilliant and restless leader of post-Hollywood, returns to the Venice Competition with The Killer, a dark psychological thriller adapted from the graphic novel by Matz and Jacamon. In an eerie future, the French director Bertrand Bonello explores the dystopian world of La Bête, where Léa Seydoux pursues her own past in a society that fears emotions. In the German film Die Theorie von Allem by Timm Kröger, a scientist from the 1960s must face a genuine nightmare...
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                Let the Music Start

                In Maestro, Bradley Cooper directs and plays the life of Leonard Bernstein, the most iconic, outgoing, and multifaceted musical personality of the 20th century, with a focus on his tumultuous relationship with his wife, Felicia (Carey Mulligan). A completely different tune is that of Texan rapper Travis Scott, the idol of young crowds, co-starring in AGGRO DR1FT, an experimental and neo-psychedelic immersion in a noir style by Harmony Korine, already a maverick in the American landscape...
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                  Creatures

                  A special, very-Italian day, starring youth trying to make their space in the world. In Competition, Saverio Costanzo presents Finally Dawn, a raw, piercing look on 1950s Cinecittà. A story of foiled aspirations and delicate equilibriums are all about An Endless Sunday (Orizzonti) by Alain Parroni, while in the Orizzonti Extra section, we will appreciate Micaela Ramazzotti’s directorial debut with Happiness, a story of emancipation for a brother and sister oppressed by their parents. Add to this the Biennale College’s entry, The Year of the Egg by debutant Claudio Casale.
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                  LIMELIGHT
                  2022

                    Close relatives

                    Family dynamics, friendship, and isolation as a choice: Kôji Fukada’s Love Life observes the effects of a late-in-life return of an impoverished, addled father. Martin McDonagh returns, five years after the great Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, with The Banshees of Inisherin, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson...
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                      The legacy of our fathers

                      To keep our resolve in condemning aggression wars means to give some thought to Ukrainian documentarist Sergej Loznitsa’s film, The Kiev Trial, a reconstruction of a post-WWII trial against Nazi officials, and possibly, a sad prophecy of what is soon to come. Familial drama is the genre of Emanuele Crialese’s L’immensità, with Penélope Cruz, and Darren Aronofky’s The Whale, starring an unrecognizable Brendan Fraser opposite Sadie Sink in the story of a faulty father-daughter relationship, which is also a theme in Zapatos rojos, a Mexican-Italian co-production by Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser...
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                        At the margin

                        Italian cinema takes off with Bones and All by Luca Guadagnino, starring Timothée Chalamet in what is an adaptation of a novel by Camille DeAngelis. Marginalization is also a theme in Romain Gavras’ Athena, set in the Parisian banlieue. American documentarist Frederick Wiseman participates with a historical fictional story, Un couple, inspired by the correspondence between Leo Tolstoy and his wife, Sophia...
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                          Rights denied

                          Today, Paul Schrader (a Festival’s habitué since his 1997 participation with Affliction) will be awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. He is in Venice with Master Gardener, starring Sigourney Weaver. Public and private alternate in the main competition, with Argentina, 1985, a story of two lawyers investigating the crimes of the military junta, and Monica, a film on a tormented mother/trans daughter relationship by Andrea Pallaoro...
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