Venice Critics Week Opens With French Romantic Comedy Drag Queen ‘Three Nights a Week’

Venice Critics Week Opens With French Romantic Comedy Drag Queen ‘Three Nights a Week’

Venice Critics Week, the side festival that runs alongside the Venice International Film Festival, revealed its 2022 lineup on Monday.

three nights a weekA French romantic comedy set in the world of drag queens, directed by Florent Guelow, will open this year’s Critics Week. queens, a feminist road movie set in Morocco by director Yasmine Benkiran about three women trying to reach the Atlantic coast before the police, will close the event. Both will debut without competition.

The 2022 competition schedule includes seven feature film premieres, including an environmental drama beating from the sun From French director Philippe Petit, about a landscape architect who decided to create a wild garden in the center of Marseille; german psychological thriller deep skin Directed by Alex Schaad, whose plot revolves around the concept of gender identity; italian comedy fields by Niccolo Falsetti, about a Tuscan punk band; and the Colombian drama by Theo Montoya angel69.

Also in this year’s Critics’ Week competition is Isabella Carbonelli’s Swedish drama born dogthat follows homeless twins struggling to survive on the streets, Eismeyer From Austrian director David Wagner, about a brutal and fearless army lieutenant who is secretly gay; and Serbian women’s empowerment drama have you seen this woman By Dušan Zoric and Matja Glushčević.

Venice Critics Week will also hold a special screening in collaboration with the 2022 Venice Film Festival. bloodThe first feature film by the iconic Portuguese director Pedro Costa, which premiered at the Venice Critics Week in 1989.

Critics’ Week artistic director Beatrice Fiorentino said of the COVID-19 pandemic that “after two difficult years marked by illness and fear, two years of alienation, isolation and forced separation; Two years of darkness”, expected the selection of the festival. “The nine films on this year’s lineup are heading in opposite directions: (perhaps) toward rebirth; to light and color; Friendship, love, open spaces and community.”

The seven titles from the Venice Critics’ Week competition, along with the debut films in the festival’s official selection, are in the running for this year’s Lion of the Future Award, given to the Best First Feature Film, which awards a $100,000 scholarship. in cash.

The official schedule for the 2022 Venice International Film Festival will be announced on July 26.
The 79th Venice Film Festival runs from August 31 to September 31. 10

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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