Pedro Almodovar will be the protagonist, tomorrow Thursday 3 September at the Venice Film Festival with
THE HUMAN VOICE
, an out of competition medium-length film based on Cocteau's theatrical masterpiece adapted for cinema several times (including the iconic version with Anna Magnani in L'amore by Roberto Rossellini ), this time played by the Lion for Lifetime Achievement 2020, Tilda Swinton.
Two directors are competing for the Golden Lion: Nicole Garcia, with
AMANTS, a
thriller between love, betrayal and crime and Jasmila Zbanic with
QUI VADIS, AIDA ?, a
story of war and resilience, set in Bosnia in 1995.
The Critics' Week opens with a double special event: the debut of Adriano Valerio's short
LES AIGLES DE CARTHAGE
and to follow the new visionary film by Carlo S. Hintermann, co-produced by Terrence Malick,
THE BOOK OF VISION.
At the Giornate degli Autori,
EST
by Antonio Pisu makes its
debut
, a road movie set in Eastern Europe in 1989 starring, among others, the leader of
Lo Stato Sociale, Lodo Guenzi.
It is also the day of
Oliver Stone
, protagonist of a meeting with the public at the Giornate degli Autori on the Oedipus island at 6.30 pm, for the release of his Aatobiography,
Looking for light - Writing, directing and surviving (La Nave di Teseo)
.