The Venice International Film Festival unveiled a starry lineup of world premieres for September — together with Pablo Larrain’s “Spencer,” starring Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana, and Ridley Scott’s medieval drama “The Last Duel,” that includes Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Adam Driver.
The oldest movie pageant on this planet is kicking off its 78th version September 1 on the Lido with the premiere of Pedro Almodóvar’s “Madres paralelas,” starring Penelope Cruz. “Spencer” and “Madres paralelas” are amongst 21 options premiering as a part of the official competitors, which has usually helped information eventual Oscar finest image nominees and even winners.
Other movies competing for the Golden Lion embrace Ana Lily Amirpour’s fantasy “Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon,” with Kate Hudson and Craig Robinson; Maggie Gyllenhaal’s adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s “The Lost Daughter,” starring Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson; Paul Schrader’s crime drama “The Card Counter,” with Oscar Isaac and Tiffany Haddish, and Paolo Sorrentino’s “The Hand of God.”
Edgar Wright’s fashionable psychological thriller “Last Night in Soho,” with Thomasin McKenzie and Anya Taylor-Joy, may also have its premiere in Venice out of the competitors earlier than heading to the Toronto Film Festival.
Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog,” with Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons; Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of “Dune,” starring Timothée Chalamet, and “Halloween Kills” have been all beforehand introduced as a part of the slate. Campion’s movie, about brothers in Nineteen Twenties Montana, is one other competitors title, and certainly one of two Netflix movies debuting on the pageant.
Last 12 months, Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” premiered on the scaled-down however nonetheless in-person pageant and was awarded the Golden Lion. This 12 months, Zhao will assist determine who will get that prize as a member of the primary jury led by fellow Oscar winner Bong Joon-ho, who directed “Parasite.”
Following on the heels of the Cannes Film Festival, the Venice Film Festival is anticipated to principally return to its full glamour in September. The pageant runs via Sept. 11.
