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Standing places at Venice Film Festival (31 August – 10 September 2022) for Italian cinema. The list of ready-made films is wide despite some masters being at work and despite the fact that in addition to the traditional long-distance challenge with the Cannes and Toronto festivals, the renewed Rome Film Fest has been added, which aims for a first edition with a bang. The director Alberto Barbera, who with the president of the Biennale Roberto Cicutto will present the selection of Venezia 79 on Tuesday 26 July, may have managed, according to the rumors gathered by ANSA on the eve of the eve, some international coup, one of those that Oscars. The tradition of bringing good luck dates back to a few years ago and includes the various La La Land, Nomadland, Gravity, The shape of water, Birdman, up to the latest The Power of the dog by Jane Campion. This is how the game could be replicated with the announcement of blonde, the film by Andrew DOMINIQUE on the timeless icon Marilyn Monroe played by the perturbing Bond girl Ana de Armas but also a series of other super titles such as the new eagerly awaited film by the multi-Oscar Mexican Alejandro INARRITU BARD, the nostalgic story of a famous Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker, who returns home and is one of the Netflix films expected on the Lido this year and which could make its way up to Oscar nominations. Granted to have NO BEARS, the new film, with Mina Kavani, by the Iranian Golden Lion director Jafar PANAHI, arrested by the regime who will keep him in prison for six years. And also TAR by Todd FIELD who will bring the regular Cate Blanchett back to the lagoon as the protagonist in the role of composer Lydia Tár, the first female conductor of a large German orchestra. In the selection it should also be entered WHITE NOISE (White Noise) by Noah BAUMBACH with Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and Jodie Turner-Smith, awaited film based on the novel by Don DeLillo, the story of a contemporary American family. In tandem with Toronto, the tour of festivals could begin in Venice WOMEN TALKING, an indirectly #MeToo film directed by Sarah POLLEY starring Jessie Buckley, Rooney Mara and Ben Whishaw. Can you root for glam couple George Clooney – Julia Roberts? For the latter, incredible to say, it would be the first time on the red carpet of the Palazzo del cinema and the romantic duo would TICKET TO PARADISE maybe out of competition (and who cares?). Harry Styles could also get to make the girls scream, protagonist of DON’T WORRY DARLING by Oliva WILDE with the emerging Florence Plugh also starring in THE WONDER by Sebastian LELIO (and much more, including Nolan’s Oppenheimer with Peaky Blinders Cyllian Murphy). And then again THE SON by Florian ZELLER (the Oscar winner of The Father) with Vanessa Kirby, while the return of Darren ARONOFSKY with THE WHALE with Sadi Sink, Brendan Fraser and Samantha Morton is assumed. Among the returns also that of Christophe HONORÉ (Lost Illusions) with THE LYCEENS with Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lacoste and Xavier Giannoli. And Abel FERRARA with FATHER PIO.
And the Italians? Luca’s BONES AND ALL would find a place in the competition EARN with beloved young star Timothée Chalamet (and Mary Rylance), Andrea’s MONICA PALLAOR in his first American film, a delicate story about old age, Emanuele’s IMMENSITY CRYALESSE story of Clara and her children, in Rome in the 70s, with Penelope Cruz, Vincenzo Amato and Aurora Quattrocchi, THE LORD OF THE ANTS by Gianni AMELIUM, story of repression and homosexuality on the life of the poet and director Aldo Braibanti with a super cast with Elio Germano, Luigi Lo Cascio and Sara Serraiocco. But it was said at the beginning great crowding. A place in Venice, between competition, out of competition, Horizons, Giornate degli Autori seems to have been booked by others too, such as Roberto AND’ with THE STRANEZZA with Ficarra and Picone and Toni Servillo, Roberto DE PAOLIS director of PRINCESS, Goofy HALF WEIGHT with I EAT YOUR HEART with Elodie, the return of Alessio CREMONINI (On my skin) with PROPHETS with Jasmine Trinca. A trio of female directors could arrive with IL COLIBRI’ by Francesca ARCHIBUGS from the book by Sandro Veronesi with Pierfrancesco Favino, Bérénice Bejo and Kasia Smutniak, Roberta TOWER with LE FAVOLOSE which tells between reality and fiction the story of seven trans friends who meet to recall their friend Antonia, buried by her family dressed as a man (while My hair hurts with Alba Rohrwacher and Filippo Timi, evocative (but not biographical) by Monica Vitti filming has just finished) and Susanna NICCHIARELLI with CHIARA, the story of the saint of Assisi interpreted by Margherita Mazzucco (the Elena Greco or the brilliant friend). For various reasons, Salvatores, Placido, Rosi (but who knows what..), Garrone, Moretti, Rohrwacher, Rovere, Emma Dante jumped.
