The thriller stars Michael Fassbender, Arliss Howard and Tilda Swinton.Īva DuVernay will become the first African American woman to compete on the Lido with her new feature, Origin, which follows the true-life journey of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson in her quest to find the origins of injustice. Another Netflix feature, David Fincher’s The Killer, will get a Venice competition slot. Maestro, Bradley Cooper’s second directorial effort, after the blockbuster success of A Star is Born - which premiered in Venice in 2018 - will grace the Lido this year, though if the SAG-AFTRA strike is still ongoing, it’s unclear whether Cooper, who also stars as legendary conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, alongside Carey Mulligan as Bernstein’s wife Felicia Montealegre, will be able to attend. The competition line-up certainly looks impressive. He noted that the SAG-AFTRA strikes will mean some “actors and actresses” will not attend but that talent from independent films will be able to come, meaning that the red carpet “will not be empty.” “The other American movies we had invited and have been confirmed and will be present,” he said. Bayona’s survival thriller, produced for Netflix, will close the 2023 Venice Film Festival on September 9.īarbera said the program for the 80th festival had already been finalized ahead of the strike, but that the impact of the labor action on the final line-up “has been quite modest” with only Challengers pulling out. Instead, Comandante, an Italian period drama from director Edoardo De Angelis starring Pierfrancesco Favino ( The Traitor) will open the fest on August 30. Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, a ménage à trois tennis drama starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor, and Mike Faist, was set to open the 2023 Venice Festival in an out-of-competition slot but was pulled last week, after MGM announced it was pushing the release of the R-rated tennis drama to April 26, 2024. Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Oscar Follow-up 'Evil Does Not Exist' Gets North American Distribution
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