For the 79th Venice Film Festival, artistic director Alberto Barbera put together one of the finest lineups of his career. Both studios and streamers are well represented.
Netflix took a hit on the first night with Noah Baumbach white noiseWith a buzz that promises to rock the Lido alongside Andrew Dominik’s Marilyn Monroe biography, Blonde, with Anna de Arma; Alejandro GO Iñárritu’s Mexican Epic Bard, a false chronicle of a handful of truths; and Romain Gavra’s French action thriller Athena.
The studio fee is well represented by Warner Bros.’ do not worry dear director Olivia Wilde; Todd Field is the highlight Tar with Cate Blanchett and Mark Strong; The MGM premiere will star Luca Guadagnino’s Timothée Chalamet-Taylor Russell. bones and all; reflective gifts Inisherin’s Banshees starting Three billboards outside of Ebbing, Missouri directed by Martin McDonagh; and Sony Pictures Classics will be produced by Florian Zeller son Proceed Dadand 1950s Oliver Hermanus period drama LifeWith Bill Nye.
But while all these titles can be talked about, Venice’s unofficial market offers a handful of films, both auteur and genre, that are still available, with enough hooks and stars to attract international and local buyers.
All the beauty and the bloodshed
Director Laura Poutras
noise Oscar-winning medical director (citizen four) turned the lens to photographer Nan Goldin, whose artistic campaign against the Sackler family’s pharmaceutical dynasty exposed the US opioid crisis and revealed how the family profited from addiction and the deaths of half a million Americans. Buyers drawn to Poitras’ name and theme should try to see the film.
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dreaming wild
stars Walton Goggins, Zooey Deschanel, Casey Affleck
Director bill pohlad
noise True stories and music documentaries are all the rage right now, with Pohlad’s follow-up to the dormant success making a strong case for this feature. love and mercy, a pop music biopic about Brian Wilson. This time, Pohlad tackles a lesser-known musical tale: the story of brothers Don and Joe Emerson (Goggins and Affleck), who spent all of their savings producing their groundbreaking debut in 1979. dreaming wildAn album that was rediscovered in the late 2000s.
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love and life
stars Fumino Kimura, Kento Nagayama, Atom Sunada
Director koji fukada
noise This Japanese melodrama marks Fukada’s first appearance in the main competition in Venice (he won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes for his 2016 feature film). Harmonium). Inspired by J-pop star Akiko Yano’s 1991 ballad “Love Life,” the film explores a young couple’s romantic journey after a family tragedy. The film’s masterful treatment of the multi-layered material should attract buyers hoping to repeat the success of the 2021 sensation. drive my car.
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Men
stars Satoshi Tsumabuki, Sakura Ando, Masataka Kubota
Director Kei Ishikawa
THE BUZZ Based on the novel by Japanese writer Keichiro Hirano. Men It follows a troubled lawyer (Tsumbabuki) who becomes entangled in a mysterious web when a former client asks him to investigate her late husband’s dark past. The film reunites Ishikawa with Tsumabuki, the star of his well-received Venice Horizons. traces of sin (2016), also starring the moving Ando, star of Palme d’Or winner Hirokazu Koreda, shoplifters.
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fields
Director Nicolo Falsetto
noise A low-key title that could win over art homebuyers willing to take a chance on the debut director, this comedic and partially autobiographical story is set in the sleepy Tuscan town of Grosseto and follows a passionate trio of Italian punks. Rockers who are forced to fight their parochial surroundings to organize a show for one of their favorite American bands.
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master gardener
stars Joel EdgertonSigourney Weaver
Director paul schrader
noise Just over a year later, it’s a slow-burning wonder. card counterSchrader returns to Venice with his 22nd directorial debut, master gardenerStarring Egerton, Weaver and Quintessa Swindell (in treatment). It matches Schrader’s pioneering “man in the room” genre (think Taxi driver, The one who sleeps in the light any card counter), the film follows Edgerton as Narvel Roth, a meticulous gardener at Gracewood Gardens, a historic estate owned by wealthy landlady Mrs. Haverhill (Weaver). When Mrs. Haverhill demands that Roth take on his rebellious niece Maya as a new apprentice, chaos ensues in his Spartan existence, revealing dark secrets of a buried violent past. Venice also awards Schröder the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement this year.
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Monica
stars Trace Lizette, Patricia Clarkson, Emily Browning
Director Andrea Palaoro
noise After winning the Venice Best Actress Award for Charlotte Rampling A-N-A In 2017, Italian Californian director Palaoro returns to Lido with this family drama starring Lisette as a trans woman who returns home to care for her dying mother (Clarkson). This slow-burning drama can be a solid show for high-end art audiences across the world.
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no bears
Director jafar panahi
stars Jafar Panahi, Mina Kavanagh
noise The last drama of the Iranian master Panahi (Taxi, out of play, circle), which was secretly filmed to circumvent Tehran’s ban on the dissident director’s works, no bears It tells us two parallel love stories of couples frustrated by hidden obstacles. The film is sure to find a home among top distributors around the world.
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nuclear
Director Oliver Stone
noise Stone may have put his narrative fiction career on hold, but the always provocative filmmaker continues to produce documentaries that still find an audience among niche buyers. His last is a passionate argument for nuclear energy as a solution to the climate crisis. Streamers, as well as Doctor Who distributors, could accept it.
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holy omer
stars Kaije Kagame, Guslagie Malanga
Director alice diop
noise The feature film debut of acclaimed documentary filmmaker Diop, whose non-fiction work we Encounters, which won the award at last year’s Berlin International Film Festival, is a courtroom drama about a young novelist forced to face his personal traumas after the trial of a young mother accused of infanticide. He fit in well with the schedules of art house dealers.
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