Take out your camera (or your smartphone, it's 2022 anyway), the stars are out!

In a month begins the 79th Venice Film Festival, which will host an audience of celebrities such as Penelope Cruz or Cate Blanchett.

In total, 23 films will be in the running for the prestigious Golden Lion for best film at this Mostra, which aims to be "a window open to the world", underlined during his online presentation the artistic director Alberto Barbera, denouncing in particular the detention of three filmmakers in Iran.

One of them, Jafar Panahi, who must serve a six-year sentence for “propaganda against the regime”, will also be in competition with

Kherst Nist

(“The bears do not exist”).

Cocorico in Venice

France is particularly well represented this year with no less than five films in competition:

Other People's Children

by Rebecca Zlotowski with Virginie Efira,

A Couple

by Frederick Wiseman (with actress Nathalie Boutefeu),

Mine

, a signed family portrait Roschdy Zem,

Athena

by Romain Gavras on a revolt in the suburbs, and

Saint-Omer

by Alice Diop, a first film on infanticide.

French filmmaker and writer Florian Zeller has offered himself Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern and Anthony Hopkins for

Le fils

, his new theatrical text on father-son relationships.

There will be no shortage of stars this year on the red carpet at the Lido facing the sea: the Spanish star Penelope Cruz is the protagonist of an Italian film,

The immensity

of Emanuele Crialese, while the Australian Cate Blanchett embodies a chef conductor in

Todd Field's

TAR .

This festival will also mark the return of Darren Aronofsky with

The Whale

(“The whale”), taken from a play and with Brendan Fraser as headliner.

Another big name: the Mexican Alejandro Inarritu, with a “very personal” film according to Alberto Barbera:

Bardo, the false chronicle of some truths

.

Timothée Chalamet and Colin Farrell starring

Highly anticipated,

Bones and all

, by the Italian Luca Guadagnino, features a Hollywood cast, from Timothée Chalamet to Chloë Sevigny.

Briton Tilda Swinton will be in the credits of

The Eternal Daughter

by Joanna Hogg, while Colin Farrell will be the protagonist of

The Banshees of Inisherin

by Martin McDonagh.

Andrew Dominik's Blonde

, a Marilyn Monroe-inspired film starring Ana de Armas in the title role and Adrien Brody, is set to turn heads.

The militant action of artist-photographer Nan Goldin will be at the center of

All the beauty and the bloodshed

by Laura Poitras, on the opiate drug scandal in the United States.

Finally,

White Noise

by Noah Baumbach, with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, will have the honor of opening the Venetian competition.

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"Full time": She runs, she runs, Laure Calamy, between work and children

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"The Lost Daughter": Maggie Gyllenhaal attacks the taboo of motherhood

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