The 23 films in the running for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival
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The Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 31 to September 10, has unveiled its selection. Among them, five films are French.
Twenty-three films are in the running for the Golden Lion for the best film at the 79eVenice Film Festival, which opens Wednesday, August 31. The festivities will be broadcast exclusively on Canal+.
White Noise by Noah Baumbach
The opening movie is White Noiseby Noah Baumbach, broadcast on Netflix, with Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy. United States, 136 minutes.
Both funny and terrifying, poetic and absurd, classic and apocalyptic, White Noise follows the daily life of a contemporary American family trying to settle their conflicts while facing the universal mysteries of love, death and the possibility of happiness in a world where uncertainty reigns.
Il signore delle formiche by Gianni Amelio
Italy, 134 minutes with Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio GermanoLeonardo Maltese, Sara Serraiocco.
Biopic about Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti, imprisoned in 1968 under a fascist-era law that criminalizes homosexual activity. The informant is his partner’s father, who forces his son to undergo electroshock conversion therapy.
United States, 117 minutes with Brendan Fraser, Sadie SinkHong Chau, Samantha MortonTy Simpkins.
Charlie, a 600-pound middle-aged man, tries to reconnect with his seventeen-year-old daughter. They separated, since the father abandoned his family for his lover. Since the death of the latter, Charlie suffers from the syndrome of uncontrolled hyperphagia due to the depressive state.
L’Immensita (the immensity) by Emanuele Crialese
Italy, 97 minutes with Penelope CruzLuana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato
Rome in the 1970s, the Borghetti family has just moved into one of the many new residential complexes built in the Italian capital. Despite this recent move, on the top floor of a new apartment with a view of the whole city, Clara and Felice are no longer in love, but cannot leave each other. Clara finds refuge from her loneliness by focusing on the special relationship she has with her three children. The eldest, Adriana, still unknown in this new neighborhood, deliberately presents herself as a boy to the children, which will push the bond that still unites the family to a breaking point.
Saint-Omer by Alice Diop
France, 122 minutes with Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valerie DrevilleAurelia Petit.
Rama, a young novelist, attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Assize Court of Saint-Omer. The latter is accused of having killed her fifteen-month-old daughter by abandoning her at the rising tide on a beach in northern France. But during the trial, the word of the accused, listening to the testimonies make Rama’s certainties waver and question our judgement.
Blonde hairby Andrew Dominick
United States, 165 minutes with Ana de Armas, Adrian BrodyBobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, Julianne Nicholson, Lily Fisher.
After ten years of waiting, the adaptation of the novel by Joyce Carol Oates – published in 1999 – will finally see the light of day. Blonde hair is a bold reinterpretation of the trajectory of Marilyn Monroe, one of Hollywood’s most timeless icons. From her tumultuous childhood to her meteoric rise and complex love stories – from Norma Jeane to Marilyn – BLONDE blurs the line between fact and fiction to explore the growing gap between her public persona and the person she she was intimate.
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ART by Todd Field
United States, 158 minutes with Cate Blanchett, Noemie Merlant, Nina HossSophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Mark Strong.
The story of Lydia Tár, a conductor widely regarded as one of the best in her field, and the very first female conductor of a major German orchestra.
love life by Koji Fukada
Japan/France, 123 minutes with Fumino Kimura, Kento Nagayama, Atom Sunada.
Taeko lives with her husband Jiro and her son Keita opposite her in-laws, who never really accepted this marriage. As Taeko discovers the existence of a former fiancée of her husband, Keita’s biological father resurfaces following an unexpected event. This is the beginning of a ruthless game of musical chairs, from which no one will emerge unscathed.
France, 97 minutes, broadcast on netflixwith Dali BensalahSami Slimane, Anthony BajonOuassini Embarek, Alexis Manenti.
Called back from the front following the death of his youngest brother, who died following an alleged police intervention, Abdel finds his family torn apart. Between the desire for revenge of his little brother Karim and the business in danger of his big brother dealer Moktar, he tries to calm the tensions. Minute after minute, the Athena city is transformed into a fortified castle, the scene of a family and collective tragedy to come. When everyone thinks they have found the truth, the city is about to fall into chaos…
USA, 130 minutes with Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark RylanceAndré Holland, Chloe Sevigny.
Maren Yearly is a sixteen year old girl. She travels the country in the hope of finding her father. She hopes to understand why she killed many of her friends because she contains herself so as not to go back to the act.
The Eternal daughter by Joanna Hogg
US/GB, 96 mins with Tilda SwintonJoseph Mydell, Carly-Sophia Davies.
The Eternal Daughter promises family secrets, hidden mysteries, ghost and family mansion…
Bardo, false chronicle of some truths ofAlejandro Inarritu
Mexico with Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid.
Shab, dakheli, divar (beyond the wall) by Vahid Jalilvand
Iran, 126 minutes with Navid Mohammadzadeh, Diana Habibi, Amir Aghaee.
A blind man’s existence begins to crumble when a wanderer enters his life.
Ireland/GB/USA, 109 minutes with Colin FarrelBrendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan.
Two lifelong friends find themselves on a remote Irish island at a delicate time in their relationship, when one of them no longer wants the friendship.
Argentina, 1985 by Santiago Miter
Argentina, 140 minutes with Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski.
The true story of a lawyer who leads a team of inexperienced people against the leaders of Argentina’s military dictatorship.
Chiara by Susanna Nicchiarelli
Italy/Belgium, 106 minutes with Margherita MazzuccoAndrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli.
Clare of Assisi is the young girl of the nobility who imitated Francis of Assisi and who took a vow of poverty. Born in 1194 into the noble and wealthy Offreducci family, Clare was barely 12 years old when Francis of Assisi made the gesture of stripping himself of all his clothes. Convinced by the example of Francis, seven years later, on Palm Sunday evening in 1211 or 1212, the young Claire fled from her home to join him at La Portiuncula. The saint cut his hair and gave him the Franciscan bure, to then bring him to the convent of the Benedictine nuns of San Paolo, near Bastia Umbra. Her father tries in vain to persuade her to return. She then took refuge in the chapel of San Damiano, where she founded the order of the Poor Ladies (or Poor Clares), where she was made abbess and for which Francis issued a first rule. Clare then writes the definitive Rule and asks (and obtains from) Gregory IX the “privilege of poverty”.
Monica by Andrea Pallaoro
USA/Italy, 106 minutes with Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza, Emily Browning, Joshua Close.
A transgender woman returns to her Midwestern hometown to care for her dying mother…
Khersnist (Bears don’t exist) by Jafar Panahi
Iran, 106 minutes with Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri.
In an Iranian village near the border, a director witnesses a love story while filming another. Will tradition and politics get the better of both?
All the beauty and the bloodshed by Laura Poitras
United States, 113 minutes.
The activism of artist photographer Nan Goldin on the opiate drug scandal in the United States.
France/United States, 63 minutes with Nathalie Boutefeu
Leo and Sophia Tolstoy formed an extraordinary couple: 36 years of marriage, 13 children, intense arguments, passionate moments of reconciliation… In the expressive nature of a wild island, Sophia confides in her admiration and her fear for the author of War and Peace, on the joys and sorrows of their life together.
GB, 123 minutes with Reminiscence: Hugh Jackman in search of lost memories, Laura Dern, vanessa kirbyZen McGrath, Anthony HopkinsHugh Quarshie.
Nicolas is seventeen years old and seems to have a hard time living. He is no longer that luminous child who always smiled. What happened to him? And why isn’t he going to class anymore? Overwhelmed by events, his mother no longer knows what to do, and Nicolas asks to live with his father. The latter will do everything to try to save him and give him back the taste for life. But can you really save someone other than yourself?
France, 85 minutes with Sami BouajilaRoschdy Zem, Meriem Serbah, MaiwennRachid Bouchareb, Abel Jafrei, Nina Zem.
Moussa has always been gentle, altruistic and present for his family. Unlike his brother Ryad, a well-known TV presenter who is criticized for his selfishness by those around him. Only Moussa defends him, who feels great admiration for his brother. One day Moussa falls and hits his head violently. He suffers from head trauma. Unrecognizable, he now speaks without filter and throws his four truths to his relatives. He ends up falling out with everyone, except with Ryad…
France, 104 minutes with Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara MastroianniCallie Ferreira.
Moussa has always been gentle, altruistic and present for his family. Unlike his brother Ryad, a well-known TV presenter who is criticized for his selfishness by those around him. Only Moussa defends him, who feels great admiration for his brother. One day Moussa falls and hits his head violently. He suffers from head trauma. Unrecognizable, he now speaks without filter and throws his four truths to his relatives. He ends up falling out with everyone, except with Ryad…
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