More than ever, the Venice Film Festival deserves its reputation as Hollywood on the lagoon.
Like past editions, artistic director Alberto Barbera has captured a large contingent of American films who hope to shine at the Oscars and are counting on the glamor of the City of the Doges to launch with a bang and get a head start in this long-distance race. .
Its program from August 31 to September 10 makes you dizzy, and probably some heartburn in Cannes and its coach Thierry Frémaux.
Arrives in Venice in official competition Timothée Chalamet.
The one who triggered crowd movements at the Lido last year with
Dune
finds director Luca Guadagnino who revealed him in
Call Me By Your Name.
In
Bones And All
, the duo stages the road trip of cannibalistic lovers.
Another expected sulfur wind, Ana de Armas.
In Andrew Dominik's
Blonde
for Netflix, the spy in
Dying Can Wait
portrays a more sensual and tormented Marilyn Monroe than life.
Netflix makes the opening
Banned from Cannes but welcomed with open arms in Venice, Netflix has four contenders for the golden lion.
In addition to
Blonde ,
White Noise
by Noah Baumbach
is expected to open .
Adam Driver and actress-director Greta Gerwig carry this adaptation of the great American novel by Don DeLillo about a middle-class family in the Midwest in the 80s facing media saturation, unbridled consumption or addiction to drugs.
The platform is also launching the city thriller
Athena
by Frenchman Romain Gavras, co-written with Ladj Ly des
Misérables
and
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
by Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu.
The director of
The Revenant
tells the existential crisis of a documentary filmmaker in three hours.
The Los Gatos firm will also be present in the television series section of the Mostra with
Copenhagen Cowboy
by Nicolas Winding Refn.
Back behind the camera by Darren Aronofsky
Other big names expected: Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby who will defend
The Son
, a new adaptation of his plays by Florian Zeller who dazzled the seventh art with
The Father,
with Anthony Hopkins.
Cate Blanchett will amaze with her mastery of the baton and classical music in Todd Field's
Tar
, a portrait of Germany's first woman conductor.
Black Swan
author
Darren Aronofsky returns behind the camera with
The Whale , which follows an obese recluse (
Mummy
star
Brendan Fraser).
More independent films complete this English-speaking contingent:
The Eternal Daughter
where the British Joanna Hogg directs her muse Tilda Swinton.
After
The Panels of Revenge
, Martin McDonagh returns to his native Ireland with a Beckett-like film
The Banshees Of Inisherin
, where Colin Farell and Brendan Gleeson play inseparable friends.
There is also, exceptionally, a documentary
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
by Laura Poitras on the ravages of the pharmaceutical industry.
Playing at home, the seventh Italian art aligns the biopic of Saint Clare of Assisi with Chiara by Susanna Nicchiarelli and
Monica
by Andrea Pallaoro, family and LGBT+ drama in English. Without forgetting, Emanuele Crialese who shines Penélope Cruz in
L 'Immensita
and Gianni Amelio's which recounts in
Il Signore Delle Formiche
the cursed trajectory of the post-war playwright, Aldo Braibanti.
Vitality of Iranian cinema
On the French side, the directors hoping to succeed Audrey Diwan, winner of the golden lion in 2021 with
L'Événement
, are Roschdy Zem with
Les miens
, portrait of a bourgeois Arab family, Rebecca Zlotowski who defends Other people
's children
with Virginie Efira , a film that evokes her story with Jacques Audiard and Alice Diop's drama
Saint-Omer
, which looks back on an infanticide that hit the headlines in France in 2013 when a mother abandoned her little girl at the rising tide.
In the parallel sections are Laure Calamy (
L'origine du mal
by Sébastien Marmier) and Isabelle Huppert (
La syndicaliste
by Jean-Paul Salomé).
The Mostra confirms the vitality of Iranian cinema, present with four titles, including the latest film by the director imprisoned by the Jafar Panahi regime,
No Bears
.
Canal + broadcaster of the Mostra
Out of competition, the stars will also be there.
Don't Worry Darling
by Olivia Wilde will be screened and could bring its stars Florence Pugh and Harry Styles to Venice.
Mia Goth will defend the horror film
Pearl
.
Christopher Waltz will wear the colors of the western
Dead For One Dollar.
So many alluring red carpets that will be broadcast exclusively in France by Canal +.
The encrypted channel that lost The Cannes Film Festival on France Télévisions has acquired the rights to the Mostra.
Antoine de Caunes will thus officiate from Venice.