Next destination: Italy.
Madres Paralelas
by Pedro Almodovar,
The Power of the Dog
by Jane Campion and three French films in particular will be in competition at the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival, which will be held from September 1 to 11, the organizers announced on Monday.
Madres Paralelas
, with Penelope Cruz and Rossy De Palma, will open the festival.
Pedro Almodovar, 71, received a Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion in 2019.
Jane Campion, Palme d'Or at Cannes with
The Piano Lesson
in 1993, returns to the cinema for the first time since 2009 with a feature film due to be released on Netflix.
The dog of power
(
The power of the dog
) is adapted from a book by Don Winslow (
The dog's claw
, in French), which deals with drug trafficking between Mexico and the United States, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten Dunst.
Stéphane Brizé, Xavier Giannoli and Audrey Diwan selected
Three French films aspire to the Golden Lion:
Another World
by Stéphane Brizé with Vincent Lindon and Sandrine Kiberlain,
Lost Illusions
by Xavier Giannoli and
The Event
by Audrey Diwan.
Five Italian productions will also be in the running, a record:
America Latina
by Fabio and Damiano D'Innocenzo,
Il buco
by Michelangelo Frammartino,
Freaks out
by Gabriele Mainetti,
Qui rido io
by Mario Martone,
E stata la mano di dio
by Paolo Sorrentino.
The other films selected are
Mona Lisa and the blood moon
by American Ana Lily Amirpour,
The lost daughter
by American Maggie Gyllenhaal,
On the job: the missing 8
by Filipino Erik Matti,
Leaves no trace
by Pole Jan P. Matuszynski ,
Captain Volkonogov escaped
by Russian Natasha Merkulova,
The card counter
by American Paul Schrader,
Reflection
by Ukrainian Valentyn Vasyanovych.
Virginie Efira member of the jury
Latin American cinema will also be well represented with
Competencia Oficial
by Argentinian Gaston Duprat with Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas,
Sundown
by Mexican Michel Franco with Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg,
Spencer
by Chilean Pablo Larrain and
La caja
by Venezuelan Lorenzo Vigas.
The South Korean director of
Parasite
, Bong Joon-ho, will chair the jury which will include French actress Virginie Efira and Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao.
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