The Venice Film Festival celebrates 90 years with a billboard that does not betray the expectations among highly anticipated films that look at the Oscars, a catwalk of world stars, works with strong and very topical themes, a lot of Italian cinema that seeks a relaunch, Netflix that plays the lion's share with four titles including the opening and a TV series (Copenhagen Cowboy by Nicolas Winding Refn).
These are some of the highlights of Venezia 79 (31 August - 10 September) but there is a risk that politics will take the stage while the whole sector sees the festival as a great driving force for returning to the theater.
BLONDE AND THE OTHER UNMISSABLE TITLES
In the selection there are some films on which there has been more competition between festivals starting with BLONDE by Andrew Dominik with Ana de Armas in the role of Marilyn Monroe in a film that promises to make us known in a way unpublished the eternally alive diva, taken from the homonymous book by Joyce Carol Oates (La nave di Theseo).
WHITE NOISE
by Noah Baumbach, the opening film of the exhibition, based on the well-known novel by Don DeLillo, with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig tells the attempts of a modern American family to face the conflicts of everyday life and at the same time understand the universal mysteries of love, death and happiness in a world full of uncertainty.
BARDO
, the new film by Alejandro G. Iñárritu who returns to Mexico after the 2000 film Amores Perros, for a story that has personal roots, a nostalgic comedy.
THE WHALE
is Darren Aranofsky's long-awaited return with the story of Charlie (Brendan Fraser), an English professor who suffers from severe obesity and attempts to reconnect with his teenage daughter (Sadie Sink).
BONES AND ALL
by Luca Guadagnino is one of the must to watch of Venice 79, the story of cannibal love between two young men on the margins, interpreted by the star Thimothee Chalamet and Taylor Russell and adapted from the novel by Camille DeAngelis.
Another unmissable is Olivia Wilde's second film
DON'T WORRY, DARLING
, screened out of competition and starring Florence Pugh, Harry Styles and Chris Pine, is a psychological thriller set in the 1950s.
FROM CHALAMET TO STYLES THE YEAR OF YOUNG STARS
There are Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Julienne Moore president of the jury, Cate Blanchett, Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem but this year the red carpet is above all for the rising stars loved by the audience of young people who will be able to 'bring them closer' again after the pandemic wall in front of the Palazzo del Cinema has been demolished.
I'm Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Timothee Chalamet, Sadie Sink from Stranger Things, our Elodie leading this up-and-coming patrol that also includes Aimee Lou Wood is one of Oliver Hermanus' Sex Education al Lido in Living series and 17-year-old Noah Jupe ( Wonder alongside Julia Roberts) in Venice with Bill Pohlad and Mia Goth's Dreaming 'Wild, launched by Lars Von Trier and X:
POLITICS AND SURROUNDINGS
With the upcoming Italian elections, the Lido risks being a stage in the electoral campaign and Italian politics a more or less conscious catchphrase.
Starting with the secretary of the League, Matteo Salvini who returns to Venice to accompany his girlfriend Francesca Verdini among the producers of the documentary by Anselma Dell'Olio on Franco Zeffirelli to continue with Giorgia Meloni 'evoked' by Marcia on Rome the new and highly anticipated work of Mark Cousins, Special Out of Competition Event at the Giornate degli Autori, 100 years after Benito Mussolini took power at the helm of the first government of the fascist era.
Dario Franceschini, leader of the Democratic Party in Naples, should arrive on 1 September in his duties as Minister of Culture.
The President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella will not participate this year in the
GLAMOR VIEW OF SAN MARCO
In a certain sense, Covid 19 has been archived, the exhibition recovers the postcard scenography that is its own.
Meanwhile, before the opening with the Academy of the Oscars, for the first time on an official visit to the Lido, he will make a splash: for the new CEO of the Academy, Bill Kramer and other members exclusive dinner by Chef Alajmo, 3 Michelin stars in Mercy.
Same superstar chef and same location for Shiseido's 150th anniversary gala dinner.
The opening of Venezia 79 is in the Stucchi room at the Excelsior.
We return to Venice at the Centurion Palace on the Grand Canal with the Diva e Donna Award organized by Tiziana Rocca, while for Vanity and the Red Sea Internation Festival on September 2nd Palazzo Bocca Contamini Corfu opens, on the 3rd Giorgio Armani has booked Ca 'Vendramin, venue of the Casino,
for The dance of the Light.
And at the San Clemente Palace on 7 September dinner by the water and charity event with amfAR, the foundation for research against AIDS that will honor Ferzan Ozpetek with the Courage award and Achille Boroli with the Philanthropic Leadership award.
At the Lido, aperitifs in the lounge of one of the main sponsors, Campari.