On Wednesday, the program was announced 72 Venice Film Festival. Venice Mostra as it is also called the world’s biggest film festival, as well as his colleagues – festivals in Cannes and Berlin, trying to find a middle ground between cinema commercial, film entertainment and film art.
Therefore, The official program of the festival coexist Baltasar Kormakur, Keira Knightley, Tsai Ming-Liang and Alexander Sokurov.
The festival will open on the Venice Lido on September 2 and the winners will be announced on September 12.
The jury of the main competition headed by Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron. Today, he successfully works in Hollywood, and in 2001 received the award in Venice for the sensational film “Y Tu Mamá También”. American Jonathan Demme, director of “Silence of the Lambs”, will head the competition debut film “Horizons”.
BBC Russian Service has selected five worthy films Venice Film Festival this year.
Alexander Sokurov and his documentary-play tape “Francophonie” takes part in the main competition.
In fact the picture is not Russia – it is France, Holland and Germany, which contributed to the shooting.
The story told in the film, – the history of the salvation of the treasures of the Louvre during the Second World War, during the German occupation.
By the time of the entry of German troops in Paris in 1940 is already empty halls of the Louvre. According to the director, who leads the agency Interfax, the history of salvation of the Louvre – “not only the French and German history – a history of the world, is the world’s experience of the world of mistakes and overcoming them, the story about the amazing events and the measures by which managed to save the country and the art of the Louvre “.
The work on the film, Sokurov started in 2013, it has, and game footage and documentary chronicle. Starred in the film by German and French actors.
It is interesting that the director, famous for its ability to defend its position, refused to participate in the competition at the Cannes Film Festival, but accepted the invitation of Venice.
epic, disaster movie “Everest” Baltasar Kormakur will open the festival on September 2, but in the competition is not involved.
The film about the tragedy, which occurred in 1996, when several groups to climb Mount Everest, hit the snow storm.
However, shooting pictures were interrupted more terrible tragedy that occurred April 18, 2014, when, during the melting of the snow avalanches killed 16 people.
In 1996, victims of disaster began eight people. Today Icelander Kormakur, to make a film in Nepal and the legendary Italian studio Cinecitta, trying to tell this story again. The film starring Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Robin Wright. In wide release film will be released in September.
animated film Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson “Anomaliza” participating in the competition.
For Kaufman’s first experience with the technology, time-lapse animation. A little more than 400 thousand dollars for the filming were collected on Kickstarter.
The story, however, is not for children, and she tells about the life of a middle-aged man named Michael, tortured monotony of life.
In other words, this is a typical story for Kaufman, author of the screenplay for the film “Being John Malkovich,” “Adaptation” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”.
The main characters voiced by David Thewlis and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
“Noon” Taiwanese director Tsai Minlyana will be shown out of competition.
Cai Minlyan already received the “Golden Lion” in Venice, however, in 1994 – the ribbon “Long live love”.
His love festivals, and it is not surprising as the Asian filmmaker, he was the unanimous opinion of critics, is shooting a film in the tradition of completely European. He often uses almost verbatim quote from their favorite European directors.
His latest film, “Noon” will tell whether Tsai surprise this time. However, the picture showing out of competition at the Mostra is already evidence of merit.
Drama ” Beasts without tribe “ American Cary Fukunaga participate in the competition.
For Fukunaga is the third major project after “Jane Eyre” and the series “True Detective”. So the invitation to contest such an esteemed film festivals like Venice, already means a lot to the young director’s career.
“The creatures without tribe” – the story of a dangerous and ill-age around the world. This time, with Briton Idris Elba in the title role.
Netflix has acquired the rights to show the film in its network at the same time with the premiere in cinemas in October. Value is not cheap – $ 12 million.
With a history of African boy growing up in the middle of an armed conflict in an unnamed country director and screenwriter, Fukunaga is responsible for the ideological component of the festival.
Learn how sincere in its quest to tell a grim story of a teenager in whose eyes had been killed the father and whose mother and sister are missing, only the audience will be the first Venice Film Festival.
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