Pablo O. Scholz
09/01/2021 12:30 AM
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Updated 09/01/2021 12:30 AM
With the world premiere of
Parallel Mothers
, by
Pedro Almodóvar
, with
Penélope Cruz
, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and Rossy de Palma, the Venice Festival will be inaugurated tonight.
The Mostra never stopped being in-person, since last year in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic it was the same on the island of Lido, where
Nomadland
, by Chloé Zhao, won the Golden Lion.
Just this year
Nomadland
- which has been available on the
Star +
streaming platform since yesterday, August 31
- received the Oscar for best film.
It also won best direction, and best leading actress, for Frances McDormand, but the important thing is something else.
For a few years now, the Venice Film Festival has usually been the true launching pad for films that will later obtain the main statuette awarded by the Hollywood Academy.
Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz, in the filming of "Parallel Mothers", which Venice opens today.
Clarín Archive
If before it was the Toronto Film Festival that could boast that the title it received there, in Canada, the audience award, then won the Oscar, it is the Italian Mostra that has been heralding the winner.
In addition, the number of films that pass through Toronto triples - at least - those of Venice.
Examples abound.
7/9/2019.
American director Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix pose with the Golden Lion for "Joker."
AFP photo
In 2020, then, the Golden Lion went to
Nomadland
.
A year before, in 2019,
Joker
, by Todd Phillips, received the Lion from the hands of Lucrecia Martel, president of the Jury, and then was a candidate for the Oscar -Joaquin Phoenix won for best actor-, the same as
Story of a marriage
, with Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson (both performers were nominated).
Alfonso Cuarón and Yalitza Aparicio, on the set of "Roma", another winner who jumped to the Oscars.
Photo Clarín Archive
In 2018
Rome
, which triumphed in Venice, reached the final stages at the Oscar.
It was the great candidate to win best film, and won, among other awards, the best film spoken in a foreign language, and the best director, for the Mexican Alfonso Cuarón.
The favorite
, another who went through the Italian festival, won the Special Jury Prize and its protagonist, Olivia Colman, was best actress.
Colman repeated the award in Hollywood.
The Volpi Cup, as the award for the best performers is called in Venice, in the male category went to Willem Dafoe, for
Van Gogh: At the door of eternity
.
The actor of
The Last Temptation of Christ
and
Platoon
he became an Oscar nominee the following year.
Guillermo del Toro holds the Golden Lion for "The Shape of Water".
Then he and his movie would win the Oscar.
AP Photo
In 2017, the winner of Venice repeated at the Oscar:
The Shape of Water
, by another Mexican, Guillermo del Toro (who would also be the best director for the Hollywood Academy).
And
3 ads for a crime
, which was an Oscar nominee and for which Frances McDormand won her second Oscar, took home the best screenplay award in Venice.
Night of confusion.
Jordan Horowitz, producer of "La La Land", shows that "Moonlight" won the Oscar, and not his film.
Get back, Warren Beatty.
AFP photo
In 2016
La La Land
competed in Venice
(the one that "won" the Oscar, but did not really, remember the confusion of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway when opening the envelope?), For which Emma Stone took the Volpi Cup and then go on to win the Oscar, and
Jackie
, for which Natalie Portman was nominated by the Academy.
Others who competed?
The Arrival
, an Oscar nominee and
Nocturnal Animals
, which had an Oscar nomination.
Before winning the Oscar, "On the Front Page" had its international premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
Photo Clarín Archive
To sum up, in 2015, when Pablo Trapero won the Silver Lion for best director for
El Clan
,
On the front page it
was shown out of competition, and the following year it won the Oscar for best film.
The Danish Girl
(Alicia Vikander won the Oscar for best supporting actress, and Eddie Redmayne was nominated for best leading actor) and
Anomalisa
(nominated for best animated film) did
compete
.
Nicolás Giacobone, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Alexander Dinelaris and Armando Bo, with their Oscars for "Birdman", another that debuted in Venice.
AP Photo
And not to forget that in 2014
Birdman
competed in Venice, and then won the Oscar, as did its director, Alejandro González Iñárritu, another Mexican ...
So it is very likely that many of the titles to be screened in the Sala Grande del Palazzo from tonight and until Friday of next week, at least are in the discussion for the Oscar to be delivered on Sunday, March 27 (the nominations will be announced on Tuesday, February 8).
A scene from Almodóvar's new film, "Parallel Mothers."
Photo Clarín Archive
This year there are many American productions in Venice.
Not all will be exhibited in competition.
Those that will be seen this year, thinking about the Oscar - in addition to
Parallel Mothers
, which may be the one sent by Spain to compete in the category now called best international film, are:
The Power of the Dog
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in Jane Campion's "The Power of the Dog."
Premieres in December in Argentina.
Netflix photo
From New Zealander Jane Campion (
The Piano Lesson
), with Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Jess Plemons.
Western in which Phil Burbank inspires fear in those around him.
When his brother brings home a new wife and son, Phil torments them.
It premieres as
The Power of the Dog
in Argentina on December 1, on Netflix.
Spencer
Kristen Stewart, dyed blonde to be Lady Di in "Spencer."
Photo Clarín Archive
From the Chilean Pablo Larraín (who already competed with
Jackie
), with Kristen Stewart as Lady Di.
The actions kick off on her Christmas vacation with the royal family at the Sandringham estate in Norfolk, England, when she decides to leave her marriage to Prince Charles.
In Argentina it does not have a release date yet.
The Lost Daughter
Olivia Colman stars in Maggie Gyllenhaal's "The Lost Daughter."
Netflix photo
Maggie Gyllenhaal's feature directing debut with Olivia Colman (
The Crown
,
The Father
), Dakota Johnson and Peter Sarsgaard.
A woman's beach vacation takes a dark turn as she begins to grapple with the problems of her past.
It premieres in Argentina on December 31, on Netflix.
The Card Counter
Oscar Isaac is in two films in competition this year.
One is "The Card Counter".
From Paul Schrader, with two actors already awarded in Venice, such as the aforementioned Willem Dafoe and Tye Sheridan (the actor from
Ready Player One
was awarded by
Joe
), plus Oscar Isaac.
Revenge thriller about a former military interrogator turned gamer haunted by the ghosts of his past.
It has no release date in Argentina.
It was the hand of God
The protagonist of the new film by Paolo Sorrentino.
Netflix photo
By Paolo Sorrentino, it may well be the one sent from Italy to the Oscar.
It is the story of a child in the tumultuous Naples of the eighties, and the most personal film of the director of
La grande bellezza
y
Juventud
.
It premieres on Netflix on December 15.
And out of competition:
The last duel
Matt Damon co-wrote and co-stars in "The Last Duel," again working with Ridley Scott.
Photo Fox / Disney
From Ridley Scott, with Jodie Comer (
Killing Eve
,
Free Guy
), Adam Driver, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck (the latter two co-wrote the script).
Set in 14th-century France, Marguerite de Carrouges (Comer) claims to have been raped by the knight Jacques Le Gris (Driver), her husband's best friend. King Charles VI authorizes a duel to the death between the two men.
In Argentina it premieres on October 14 as
The Last Duel
.
Dune
Zendaya and Timothée Chalamet, two of the stars of "Duna".
Photo WB
From Denis Villeneuve, with an all-star cast: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Dave Bautista, Stellan Skarsgård, Charlotte Rampling, Oscar Isaac, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Jason Momoa.
It is the adaptation, after the David Lynch film, of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel, about the son of a noble family who is entrusted with the protection of the most vital element in the galaxy.
It opens in Argentina on October 14.
Last Night in Soho
Anya Taylor-Joy in the strange "The Soho Mystery".
Photo UIP
From Edgar Wright, with “our” Anya Taylor-Joy.
An aspiring fashion designer is mysteriously capable of stepping into the 1960s, where she meets a ravishing aspiring singer.
Dreams of the past begin to present something darker.
In Argentina it premieres on November 11 as
The Mystery of Soho
.
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