Harry Styles, Ana de Armas, Timothée Chalamet, Cate Blanchett… The stars are making their comeback at the Venice Film Festival

Canal +, which became the exclusive broadcaster of the Venice Film Festival after losing the rights to Cannes, can smile. The red carpet of the Italian festival will be, from August 31 to September 10, the place for the return of icons and young shoots of the seventh art. The shadow of Marilyn Monroe, Catherine Deneuve honored for his entire career, Cate Blanchett in competition, the president of the jury Julianne Moore will rub shoulders with the idols of Gen Z moviegoers, such as Timothée Chalamet or the singer Harry Styles.

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Twenty-three films are in the running for the Golden Lion, awarded on September 10, in a festival that assumes and reinforces its status as a launching pad for the race for the Oscars. To the detriment of Cannes and Berlin, and even the Toronto Festival and Market, which is only regaining color this fall after two years of the pandemic. A litany of Hollywood projects will parade in Venice, already dubbed as favorites of the awards season. The American contingent is overrepresented.

The most anticipated feature film is a fictionalized version of the life of Marilyn Monroe from the novel by Joyce Carol Oates Blonde hair. In the skin of the icon of Axes slips the actress and revelation of the latest james bondAna de Armas. Directed by Andrew Dominik, Blonde hair, rightly or wrongly, is preceded by a sulphurous reputation. In development for a decade, the film is supposed to feature very graphic scenes.

Netflix in Majesty

It is one of the four Netflix productions in competition this year: Venice has become a place of choice for the platform, which cannot claim Cannes trophies because its films are not released in theaters in France. For this 79^e edition, the platform got the opening movie slot, with White Noise of New Yorkers Noah Baumbach. The director of Marriage Story, sometimes referred to as the new Woody Allen, adapts the star of letters Don DeLillo, with his companion Greta Gerwig and Adam Driver.

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Among the other famous filmmakers in competition will face the Oscar-winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (The Revenant, Birdman), for a film in the form of a homecoming in Mexico, Joanna Hogg (Le Remembrance) and Martin McDonagh (panels of revenge). Respectively with Bardo, false chronicle of some truths, The Eternal Daughter The Banshees of Inisherin

Florian Zeller pursues his Anglo-Saxon dream

France has five films in competition, including Other people’s children of Rebecca Zlotowski with Virginie Efira, Minea signed family portrait Roschdy Zemor even Athena, a fiction of Romain Gavraswritten and produced by Ladj Ly, on a revolt in the suburbs. Coming soon to Netflix.

Defector Coast, after The Fatherwho had won two Oscars, the French filmmaker-writer Florian Zeller pursues its Anglo-Saxon dream by offering itself Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and again Anthony Hopkins for The sonadapted from his play.

If the jury chaired by the American actress Julianne Moore is almost equal, the competition remains unbalanced, with only eight directors, one year after the coronation of the French Audrey Diwan for The Event, on abortion.

The return to grace of Brendan Fraser

The flashes of the paparazzi should crackle. Penelope Cruz, Cate Blanchettconductor in Tar, Catherine Deneuve, Colin Farell and Willem Dafoe are announced on the Lido. Like the god of the applause meter and the walkabouts. Timothée Chalamet, 26, who ignited the red carpet last year with Dunescelebrates his reunion with the director of Call Me By Your NameLuca Guadagnino who had brought him out of obscurity. Bones And All is intended to be a road-trip coupled with a cannibalistic romance.

The star seed of the year could be Sadie Sink, 20 years. The revelation of the series Stranger Things gives the answer to the ghost Brendan Fraser, obese father in The Whale which marks the return behind the camera of Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream). Many see this double comeback, if well received, as one of the most touching stories of the upcoming awards season. franchise star The MummyBrendan Fraser had chained injuries and health problems following the stunts of the saga. The shy and on edge actor was very open about his physical transformation and his journey through the desert.

Don’t Worry Darling, a red carpet under high tension?

One of the surprises of this edition is the presence (or not) of the British pop phenomenon Harry Styles, 28 years old. It is in the credits with Florence Pugh of the drama, there also presented as explicit, Don’t Worry Darling, signed by his partner Olivia Wilde. However, the director and actress has initiated a controversy. In an interview at varietyshe was coming back on the dismissal of the controversial Shia Labeouf and his replacement by Harry Styles. But Shia Labeouf published a denial, accompanied by a video, explaining that it was he who had decided to leave the project. In this clip, Olivia Wilde laments her departure and complains about the “pinched” attitude of her star Florence Pugh. On tour the second part of Dunes in Hungary, with Timothée Chalamet, the British actress will make her only promotional appearance linked to the film in Venice, according to the specialized Hollywood press. Real or supposed tensions that have delighted gossip sites to the point of eclipsing the film which will be presented out of competition in Venice and at the Deauville American Film Festival.