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There are 21 Films IN COMPETITION for the Grand Lion Prize at La Biennale di Venezia!


From the Hollywood Reporter --

Venice Festival Picks Marilyn Monroe Drama ‘Blonde,’ New Timothee Chalamet, Olivia Wilde, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Films
The 79th Venice International Film Festival unveils the movies that will compete for this year's Golden Lion.


BY SCOTT ROXBOROUGH

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JULY 26, 2022 1:58AM


The Venice Film Festival has done it again.

The lineup for the 79th Venice International Film Festival could have been a damp squib after Cannes’ stellar 2022 festival, which featured the likes of Hollywood blockbusters Top Gun: Maverick and Elvis alongside arthouse crowd pleasers, including Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or winner Triangle of Sadness and Park Chan-wook’s South Korean mystery thriller Decision to Leave.

But Venice’s 2022 program, unveiled on Tuesday, stands up to the Croisette razzle-dazzle with an impressive mix of red-carpet-friendly, star-studded features and compelling, politically-charged dramas and documentaries. While there will be nothing to match Top Gun at the Lido this year, it looks like Venice’s position as the launch pad for award-season contenders is still firmly in place.


New features from Alejandro González Iñárritu, Florian Zeller, Noah Baumbach, Luca Guadagnino, Darren Aronofsky, Joanna Hogg and Olivia Wilde will all premiere in Venice. The stars set to boat in for the Italian fest include Timothée Chalamet, Ana de Armas, Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Tilda Swinton, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Florence Pugh and Chris Pine.

Baumbach’s Netflix film White Noise, an adaptation of the 1985 Don DeLillo novel that is starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, will open the 79th Venice Film Festival on Aug. 31, Venice had announced on Monday. It will mark Baumbach’s return to the Lido three years after his Marriage Story premiered in Venice, en route to picking up six Oscar nominations and one win. It’s one of three Netflix features on the Lido this year, with the streamer also taking Blonde, a fictionalized chronicle of the inner life of Marilyn Monroe from New Zealand director Andrew Dominik, starring de Armas as Monroe, and Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths to the Lido. Bardo is Iñárritu’s first Mexican film since his 2000 feature debut Amores Perros.

Other competition highlights include Zeller’s The Son, the French director’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning drama The Father, starring Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby and Anthony Hopkins, will premiere in competition in Venice. Adapted, like The Father, from his own French-language play, The Son is being produced by See-Saw, the British/Australian banner behind 2021 Venice Festival and 2022 awards season darling The Power of the Dog. Sony Pictures Classic has the rights.

Venice favorite Guadagnino returns to the Lido with competition title Bones and All, a U.S.-set feature that reteams the director with his Call Me By Your Name Oscar nominee Chalamet. The film co-stars Taylor Russell as Maren, a young woman living on the margins of society who falls in love with Lee (Chalamet), an intense and disenfranchised drifter. Jessica Harper, Chloë Sevigny, Michael Stuhlbarg and Mark Rylance co-star. MGM has worldwide rights, with United Artists releasing in the U.S. and Vision Distribution handling the Italian bow.

Aronofsky’s The Whale will also premiere in competition, marking his return to the Lido after 2017’s Mother! Aronofsky won the Golden Lion in Venice in 2008 with The Wrestler. His latest stars Sadie Sink, Brendan Fraser and Samantha Morton in the story of a reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity who attempts, one last time, to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter. A24 has worldwide rights.





British auteur Joanna Hogg will bring The Eternal Daughter, starring Tilda Swinton, to the Venice competition. The same goes for the latest from 2017 Venice Golden Lion winner Martin McDonagh (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), The Banshees of Inisherin, starring Colin Farrell. French director Rebecca Zlotowski’s Other People’s Children, a French feature starring Virginie Efira (Elle, Benedetta) as a childless woman who forms a deep bond with her boyfriend’s young daughter, has also made the Venice competition cut, as has Our Ties from fellow French director Roschdy Zem (Chocolat).

Italian director Andrea Pallaoro, whose 2017 drama Hannah, starring Charlotte Rampling, was part of the Venice competition that year, is set to return with his English-language debut, Monica. The family drama stars Trace Lysette as a woman who returns home to care for her dying mother. Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza and Emily Browning co-star. The Exchange and UTA Independent Film Group are handling world sales. Another Italian feature, Chiara from director Susanna Nicchiarelli, will be representing the home crowd in the Venice competition this year.

No Bears, a film shot in secret by banned Iranian director Jafar Panahi, will also get a Venice competition slot, as will Todd Field’s Tar, starring Cate Blanchett, Vahid Jalilvand’s Beyond the Wall, Alice Diop’s Saint Omer and Koji Fukada’s Love Life. Beyond the Wall, an Iranian drama from Panahi’s countryman Vahid Jalilvand, will also screen in competition, one of four Iranian films in Venice’s official selection this year.

Laura Poitras’ documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed will get a rare competition slot for a non-fiction film, while A Couple, a French-shot feature from acclaimed documentarian Frederick Wiseman (City Hall), will also premiere in the lineup.

Other competition titles include Il signore delle formiche from Italian director Gianni Amelio, a portrait of the Italian poet, playwright and director Aldo Braibanti jailed in 1968 under a Fascist-era law criminalizing gay activity; Emanuele Crialese’s Spanish drama L’immensità starring Penelope Cruz; and Santiago Mitre’s political period piece Argentina, 1985.

The Hanging Sun, a Sky thriller from director Francesco Carrozzini, based on the Jo Nesbø best-seller, starring Alessandro Borghi, Jessica Brown Findlay, Peter Mullan and Charles Dance, will close the Venice Film Festival on Sept. 10.



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Some conversations --

Bastien Ⓜ️
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On en parle que les films que j'attendais à #Cannes2022 avec impatience sont finalement sélectionnés à Venise !!! 🙄 #Blonde avec Ana De Armas #TheSon avec Hugh Jackman & Laura Dern #Limmensita avec Penelope ❤ #Venezia2022 #BiennaleCinema2022
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La Biennale di Venezia
@la_Biennale
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#BiennaleCinema2022 #Venezia79 #Concorso #Competition

Scopri di più → bit.ly/Venezia79_Concorso
Find out more → bit.ly/Competition_Venezia79
Pierre Lescure
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Replying to
@bastii3n
Blonde,c’était le blocage Netflix (affaire en cours).Mon seul regret…
Penelope, le film n’était pas totalement prêt …
The Son , nettement le choix de la prod de jouer Venise . Tactique old school pour les Oscars .
Vous avez raison de les attendre .
Moi aussi , en quelque sorte.

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Blonde, it was Netflix blocking (ongoing case). My only regret…
Penelope, the movie wasn't totally ready...
The Son, clearly the choice of the prod to play Venice. Old school tactic for the Oscars.
You are right to expect them.
Me too, sort of.

Will it be a choice between Venice (supposedly the producers choice) and Telluride ( could that be Zeller;s choice?) -- or can both be accomodated?

We'll see...

Btw, this is more on the gossip side -- when they were filming, some gossip came out about the supposed feud between Dern and Kirby... I came across another tweet now asking if that feud will continue?

Lol!

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A lot of references to Hugh's Oscar race --

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FALL release in the USA!

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Official Page of SONY PICTURES CLASSICS --

www.sonyclassics.com/film/theson/

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In summary -- the 21 films considered IN COMPETITION ( for the Grand Jury Prize, the Golden Lion) --

VENEZIA 79 COMPETITON
Il Signore Delle Formiche, dir: Gianni Amelio
The Whale, dir: Darren Aronofsky
L’Imensita, dir: Emanuel Crialese
Saint Omer, dir: Alice Diop
Blonde, dir: Andrew Dominik
Tar, dir: Todd Field
Love Life, dir: Koji Fukada
Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths, dir: Alejandro G. Inarritu
Athena, dir: Romain Gavras
Bones And All, dir: Luca Guadagnino
The Eternal Daughter, dir: Joanna Hogg
Beyond The Wall, dir: Vahid Jalilvand
The Banshees Of Inisherin, dir: Martin McDonagh
Argentina 1985, dir: Santiago Mitre
Chiara, dir: Susanna Nicchiarelli
Monica, dir: Andrea Pallaoro
No Bears, dir: Jafar Panahi
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed, dir: Laura Poitras
A Couple, dir: Frederick Wiseman
The Son, dir: Florian Zeller
Our Ties, dir: Roschdy Zem
Other People’s Children, dir: Rebecca Zlotowski

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Some friction was observed between Dern and Kirby? A bit of gossip, whether or not true, often piques the interest of the entertainment press.

Love that we’re finally seeing some production stills from the movie. Looking forward to the eventual trailer.

Let’s hope that “Oscar train” is a bullet train sending Hugh speedily to the Best Actor winner’s podium at the 2023 Academy Awards.

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I had a recent friendly twitter exchange with fans of the movie and of the 2 actresses. Comparison as to who would have the showier scenes ( so they could be considered for supporting role awards) was discussed. Someone said that Vanessa is supposed to have a showy scene ( not in play) in the movie while someone said that Laura will likely be in a surprise scene ( shot in France) not also directly referred to in the play. Lol - I am picking up bits of speculations

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Who knows - maybe young Aussie actor Zen McGrath ( who plays the titular SON) might actually wind up with a supporting actor nod??

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The Official Page of THE SON at La Biennale di Venezia 2022.


www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2022/venezia-79-competition/son



CINEMA
THE SON
Venezia 79 Competition

Director:
Florian Zeller
Running Time:
123’
Country:
UK
Main Cast:
Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Quarshie

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Must films be subtitled or dubbed?
All films must be presented exclusively in their original language. The festival will not accept dubbed films. Foreign language films must be subtitled in Italian. Italian language films must be subtitled in English.

Will the press see my film?
Some 3,000 journalists, film critics, and radio and television reporters are attending the Festival and have privileged access to screenings. A film presented at the Festival attracts world attention. The Venice Film Festival has long been an exclusive launching pad for the work of new filmmakers as well as for accomplished personalities.

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Images from where the screenings and presentations are held -- Check the Photo Gallery below.


www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2022