Work on the 79th Venice Film Festival has ended.
This year’s Cannes Film Festival set a new record with a mix of Hollywood blockbusters: Top Gun: Maverick, Elvis – and artistic and independent films, including the socially satirical Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner the triangle of sadnessDavid Cronenberg’s Weird Sci-Fi Dystopia future crimes and Park Chan-wook’s secret masterpiece decision to leave.
If Venice wants to retain its crown as a festival contender for awards season, last year’s Lido lineup included Jane Campion. the power of the dogwho won this year’s Best Director Oscar, as well as six-time Oscar winner Denis Villeneuve. Dune – Must match the skin with a mix of prestigious author titles and red carpet glamor.
Venezia will officially announce their 2022 squad on July 26. Here are the top candidates who can make the cut.
bones and all
luca guadagnino bones and all Only the premiere in Venice is guaranteed. Reconnect the Italian director with himself call me by your name Oscar-nominated Timothée Chalamet, whose appearance Dune Last year, the red carpet drew huge crowds in Venice. David Cajganic, author of Guadagnino bigger splash s sighBoth debuted in Venice, adapting the script bones and all From the novel by Camille de Angelis. waves Breakthrough Taylor Russell stars as Maren, a young woman living outside of society who falls in love with Lee (Chalamet), an intense and outcast drifter. Together they embark on a thousand-mile odyssey through the back roads, secret passages and trap doors of Ronald Reagan’s America. Jessica Harper, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg and Mark Rylance star. MGM holds the worldwide rights, with United Artists releasing in the US and Vision Distribution managing bones and allItalian Arch.
Bard, a false chronicle of a handful of truths
Bard, a false chronicle of a handful of truths
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Alejandro González Iñárritu, who used the 2014 Venice Film Festival as his Best Picture Oscar winner. Birdman or the unexpected virtue of ignorance, may return to the Lido with another long-running, ambitious drama. inarritu Bard, a false chronicle of a handful of truths marks the director’s return to Mexico, 22 years after his film debut in 2000 love but. The film is billed as a nostalgic comedy set in the epic personal journey of a Mexican journalist and filmmaker (Daniel Jiménez Cacho) who returns home to work due to an existential crisis. The director’s first feature film since the reborn, Bard Set in Iñárritu’s hometown of Mexico City and shot in 65mm. Netflix, which acquired the worldwide rights to the film, can follow the same promotional playbook it used. PomegranateAlfonso Cuarón’s Friend of Iñárritu, which premiered (and won) in Venice in 2018, kicked off an awards campaign that ended with three Oscars.
white noise
three years later The wedding story Landing at the Lido on his way to starring in the 2020 awards season (he won one of his six Oscar nominations), it seems almost certain that Noah Baumbach will return with his next feature film with Netflix. Based on Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, the first time Baumbach hasn’t worked from his own idea, the film, which follows a dramatic year in the Western professor’s life, completes an ensemble worthy of Venice, including Adam. Driver, Greta Gerwig, Andre Benjamin, Alessandro Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith and Don Cheadle.
eternal daughter
While on the main jury in 2020, British author Joanna Hogg has yet to bring one of her films to Venice (her most recent, part of memory 2, presented at Cannes 2021). But eternal daughter could change all that. Reuniting Hogg with Tilda Swinton and A24, the ghost story, filmed in secret during lockdown, gets an extra boost thanks to producers including Martin Scorsese and Irish label Element Pictures behind it. Favorite s Normal people. He follows A middle-aged daughter and her aging mother who must face long-buried secrets when they return to their old family home, the film also stars Carly-Sophia Davies, Joseph Maidel and Alfie Sankey-Green.
son
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Given the recent raves behind it, this feature seems tailor-made for the Lido cult and is expected to make the trip. The sequel to Florian Zeller’s first twisted feature film Dadwhich won the 2021 Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and Anthony Hopkins was nominated for Best Actor, son – also adapted from the Zeller stage play – features a top-notch cast of Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Vanessa Kirby. Hopkins also returns for a second chance with the fast-rising French director. and connects with last year’s festival, son Produced by See-Saw, the UK/Australian flag behind the 2021 Venice Film Festival and 2022 Dear Awards season the power of the dog. Sony Pictures Classic owns the rights.
Format
Darren Aronofsky’s Last Visit to Venice, 2017 Mother! – It was a disaster. Critics hated its mix of mystery and horror, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem, and the film flopped on the Lido shortly after its release. But Venice still has a soft spot for Aronofsky: 2008 Fighter won the Golden Lion and both antani (2006) and black swan (2010) premiered in Venice, making the festival the perfect setting for the director’s return. Aronofsky’s latest stars Sadie Sink, Brendan Fraser and Samantha Morton in this story about a lonely English teacher suffering from severe obesity who makes one last attempt to connect with his estranged teenage daughter. A24 has worldwide rights.
Rheingold
Turkish-German author Fatih Akin (On the contrary, in fading) has brought two feature films to Venice to date: 2009 Audience Favorite the kitchen of the soul and a 2014 period drama Cut. Rheingold, the long-awaited biopic of ex-convict German hip-hop impresario Givar Hajab, could turn into three. With Emilio Sakraya, Rheingold Released in Germany by Warner Bros. and distributed worldwide by MUBI’s The Match Factory.
Blonde
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BlondeA fictionalized account of Marilyn Monroe’s inner life by New Zealand director Andrew Dominick, with knives out s no time to die Star Ana de Armas as Monroe fits perfectly into the star-studded writer slot she filled last year on Pablo Larraín’s drama Kristen Stewart-as-Lady-D. Spencer. Based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde Co-stars include Bobby Cannavale, Adrien Brody and Caspar Phillipson. Dominik still has only one appearance in Venice: the 2007 western The murder of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford. Netflix, which has worldwide rights, will love it. Blonde This will be his second film directed by De Armas, at next year’s awards.
She said
The investigative drama that follows New York Times Reporters Megan Toohey and Jodi Kantor, while publishing the sexual assault stories that helped spark the #MeToo movement, were rumored to be in the mix for Cannes. But the latest feature from German multi-screenwriter Maria Schrader comes on the heels of her Emmy win for Netflix. heterodox and critical and commercial acclaim for its sci-fi romantic comedy I am your manIt would be good for Venice. Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan star as Toohey and Cantor, the reporters who exposed the late Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, in a cast that also includes Jennifer Elle, Patricia Clarkson, Andre Broher and Samantha Morton. Universal Pictures owns the rights worldwide.
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Susana Niciarelli
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Susanna Nicciarelli’s new participation in the Venice 2020 contest Miss Marx Look for the arc of the lido. The period drama is a biography of Saint Clare of Assisi, who left her wealthy family after hearing St Francis preach and became a nun. my brilliant friend Star Margherita Mazzucco plays the title role. Rai Cinema has the rights.
other people’s children
French director Rebecca Zlotovsky has been a Cannes favorite so far: her 2019 film simple girl Screened at the Cannes Filmmakers’ Fortnight, 2010 dear prudence was the headline of Critics’ Week and 2013 great center It also debuted on the Croisette. But after your last other people’s children, did not appear on the Cannes 2022 schedule, prompting speculation that the film could be moved to Venice. The Belgian virgin Ephira participates in the drama (We will, Benedetta) as a childless woman who forms a deep bond with her friend’s daughter.
Monica
Italian director Andrea Palaoro, whose 2017 drama A-N-AWith Charlotte Rampling, it was part of the Venice competition in 2017 and debuted in 2013 Medeas Shown in the Horizons sidebar at the festival, it will return to Lido for its English debut. The family drama stars Trace Lisette as a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza and Emily Browning star. Exchange and UTA Independent Film Group handle worldwide sales.
Source: Hollywood Reporter

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