(27 Aug 2024)
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Venice – 27 August 2024
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STORYLINE:
The Lido is getting ready for the start of the 81st Venice Film Festival.
Film fans, industry professionals, press and security are gearing up for one of the starriest editions of the fest in many years.
Director Tim Burton will kick off the event Wednesday evening with sequel "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice."
This year’s festival is expected to be back to full scale after the 2023 edition was heavily affected by the Hollywood strikes, causing films to pull out and actors to stay away.
Venice is a significant launching ground for awards hopefuls and the first major stop of a busy fall film festival season, with Toronto, Telluride and the New York Film Festivals close behind.
Five years after "Joker” won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, filmmaker Todd Phillips is returning with the sequel. “Joker: Folie à Deux” will play in competition with 20 other titles.
The highly anticipated follow-up to the blockbuster comic book film stars Joaquin Phoenix as the mentally ill Arthur Fleck and Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn.
The lineup for the 81st edition of the festival also includes new films starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and Jude Law.
Among the films playing alongside “Joker 2” in competition are Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas film “Maria,” starring Jolie; Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here"; the erotic thriller “Babygirl” starring Kidman and Harris Dickinson from filmmaker Halina Reijn; Luca Guadagnino’s William S. Burrough’s adaptation “Queer,” with Craig and Jason Schwartzman; and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film, “The Room Next Door,” starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. Set in New England, the filmmaker has said it’s about an imperfect mother and a resentful daughter.
“The Order,” Justin Kurzel’s 80s-set crime thriller about the white supremacist group starring Jude Law as an FBI agent, Nicholas Hoult and Jurnee Smollett, will also be in competition, as will Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” with Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones and Joe Alwyn. Shot on 70mm, the 215-minute epic is about a Hungarian Auschwitz survivor who goes to the United States.
Pitt and Clooney will reunite in Jon Watts’ “Wolfs,” an adrenaline packed action-comedy about two fixers, that will screen out of competition.
The Venice Film Festival runs through Sept. 7.
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