12 Venice Film Festival Films – Weekend
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The world’s oldest Venice Film Festival is being held for the 80th time this year. On this occasion, the program has gathered a stunning, and it seems that the championship of the Cannes Film Festival this year is in question: many of the most important directors of the world will come to Venice from David Fincher to Bertrand Bonello, from Yorgos Lanthimos to Richard Linklater and from Sofia Coppola to Luc Besson. True, the anniversary was spoiled by the strike of Hollywood screenwriters and actors – because of it, American artists will not take the red carpet and the directors will have to present the premieres. This is especially unfortunate for Venice, which has been relying on Hollywood in recent years. Because of this, The Pretenders by Luca Guadagnino was removed from the program – they were supposed to be the opening film. But even from the remaining premieres, several strong festival programs could be made. We talk about the 12 most promising paintings.
“Premonition”
Bertrand Bonello
A sensitive researcher of modernity, a barometer of social pessimism, Bertrand Bonello seems to be entering David Cronenberg territory. As in the latest Canadian film Crimes of the Future, where Lea Seydoux also played, in the center of Bonello’s picture are experiments on the human body, which, according to the plot, will become the norm of life in the coming decades. In the world of “Premonitions”, people of the future seek to get rid of emotions and “purify” their DNA. This is the largest film by the outstanding Frenchman, the author of “Saint Laurent” and “Paris is a holiday.” The action is divided into two countries – France and the United States – and three times: 1910, 2014 and 2044.
“Priscilla”
Sofia Coppola
Priscilla can be seen as an addition to last year’s Elvis – or as a response to the Baz Luhrmann film, where the wife of the king of rock and roll, Priscilla Beaulieu, almost got no lines and screen time. This is not the first time Sofia Coppola offers a feminine perspective on historical events and she herself compares Priscilla with her own early painting Marie Antoinette. Indeed, if Elvis was a king, then Priscilla is also a story about a princess, and judging by the trailer, there is again a lot of pink in the new Coppola film. The plot tells about the life of the heroine from the age of 15 to 27 – at this age she divorced Elvis after a six-year marriage.
“Theory of Everything”
Timm Kroeger
The most mysterious film of this year’s main competition. The German Timm Kroeger graduated from film school nine years ago with an unlikeable, slightly otherworldly picture of The Council of the Birds based on German romanticism. The film was also shown in Venice, but later it did not have a big festival success. After a long absence, Kröger returned to directing a black-and-white “quantum thriller” (by his own definition) about a scientist who travels to a physics congress in the Alps in the 1960s. The pompous title unhesitatingly echoes that of Stephen Hawking’s Oscar-winning biography, but there’s hardly anything else in common between the two films.
“Poor-unfortunate”
Yorgos Lanthimos
From the 18th century English he studied in The Favorite, Yorgos Lanthimos travels to the Victorian era. The Poor Unfortunates is a film adaptation of Alasdair Gray’s novel (translated into Russian): a postmodern medley based on Frankenstein and picaresque novels tells about a mad scientist who revives a suicidal girl by transplanting her with the brain of a baby. The heroine is played by Emma Stone, the scientist – Willem Dafoe in grotesque makeup. Noteworthy is an unusually large amount of computer graphics for Lanthimos – the world in which the heroes live resembles a steampunk comic book.
“Evil Doesn’t Exist”
Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Against the background of fantasy and historical cinema, which makes up the majority of the competition, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, as usual, comes up with a story about simple things – however, as the name implies, he knows how to make broad generalizations from them. This skill has already earned him an Oscar (plus two nominations) for Get in My Car. The action takes place in a relatively remote Japanese province, where developers, despite the dissatisfaction of local residents, are going to build a campsite for wealthy tourists. Hamaguchi shows the conflict between rural and urban without choosing sides: the plot intertwines the lines of both the residents of the future resort and real estate agents.
“Murderer”
David Fincher
In the long-standing confrontation between the Venice Film Festival and Cannes, the good relations with Netflix give the Italians a big advantage. Cannes announced a few years ago that it would not invite films that were not intended for theatrical distribution, and since then Venice has been happy to take them for itself. This year, one of the potentially major Netflix hits is David Fincher’s film with the simple title “Killer”. The director of “Seven” and “Zodiac” has been filming about killers all his life, and the comic book series on which the new film is based has wanted to be filmed for the last twenty years. If all goes well, the film, starring Michael Fassbender as the hit man with no name, could be the quintessential Fincher style.
“The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”
Wes Anderson
Another Netflix project in the Venice program will be shown out of competition – this is a short film by Wes Anderson, who recently released two full-fledged films in a row. Even in the film for 35 minutes, Anderson assembled a cast with three Oscar nominees and one winner (Ben Kingsley). The main role of the eccentric rich man Henry Sugar was played by Benedict Cumberbatch. The film is based on stories by Roald Dahl. Anderson has already filmed the classic of children’s literature in the cartoon Fantastic Mr. Fox, but this time he collected his darkest texts in the film.
“Castle”
Roman Polanski
The presence of the “Palace” in Venice is already interesting because the 90-year-old Roman Polanski has not been completely “cancelled” for the rape of fifty years ago. At the same time, next to him in the out-of-competition program is “The Great Irony” by Woody Allen – a director no less scandalous, although the accusations against him are far from being so unambiguous. Venice is true to both authors, although Hollywood stars have turned their backs on them too – of the Americans, only Mickey Rourke starred in Polanski, but as a consolation, there is Alexander Petrov in a small role. The Palace tells about a society of millionaires who have gathered to meet the new year 2000 in a Swiss castle: apparently, Polanski’s signature claustrophobic plot is promised.
“Aggro Dr1ft”
Harmony Korine
The name of Harmony Korin’s new film is difficult to translate into Russian: drift is “drift”, but aggro is something like “bull” (Russian teenagers know the verb “aggro”). It is also difficult to find any analogies for the work of Harmony Korin, the poet of everything vulgar, stupid and ugly. Shot entirely in infrared in Miami, this hitman movie is reminiscent of a hallucinatory version of Grand Theft Auto. As in GTA (and other Korin films – Spring Breakers, Gummo, etc.), the plot of “Aggro Dr1ft” has little meaning – it’s a purely visual experience.
“Kane Mutiny Tribunal”
William Friedkin
The last film by William Friedkin, who did not live a month before the premiere: the classic of the “new Hollywood”, the author of “The Exorcist” and “The French Connection” died on August 7 at the age of 87. “Court-Martial…” is not a new story for Hollywood. Based on the novel by Herman Wouk, back in 1954, a film was made with Humphrey Bogart. In the new version, Kiefer Sutherland plays the lieutenant who removed the captain from command of the ship and was put on trial for it, and Friedkin moved the action from World War II to the modern era.
“Daaaaaali!”
Quentin Dupyeux
The strangest French director, the author of intoxicatingly absurd films that defy any description, Quentin Dupye has recently released two films a year (the premiere of Yannick was held in August at the Locarno festival). Little is known about the plot of the picture, except that Salvador Dali is really present there. The protagonist is a journalist who tries to interview an artist for a documentary, but fails. Dali’s eccentricity has become so deeply embedded in pop culture that it has already become banal, but Dupieu’s banal films have not yet happened.
“Term of Time”
Liliana Cavani
The Italian Liliana Cavani became famous with the decadent The Night Porter (1973) and has not made a big movie for the last twenty years, switching to theater and television. Now, in her 90th birthday year, Cavani is back for a story about the end of the world. Several friends gather for one of theirs’ annual birthday celebration and learn that the world may only have a few hours left to live. Starring major Italian actors (Alessandro Gassman, Fabrizio Rongione), as well as Xenia Rappoport. Most likely, Cavani will not shoot another film, and at the festival she will be awarded an honorary prize for her contribution to cinema in a timely manner.
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