T.odd Field is not a prolific author. It was from 2006 – year of release of Little Children film that earned Kate Winslet an Oscar nomination – that nothing of his could be seen. There had been before In the Bedroom with Sissy Spacek (2001)even before a career as an actor and musician.
And it is precisely around the music that he thinks T.TOR, the first of two films in competition today. Portrayed by Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, and Mark Strong, the American’s film puts it once again a female figure in the center: Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) is one of the greatest conductors in the world, and the first woman to conduct the largest German orchestra in Berlin. The world in which she moves, however, is hostile to her and her extraordinary talent which she must continually prove is not sufficient protection from the dangers.
Venice on September 1st: Iñárritu’s Bardo
Bardo, Falsa Crónica De Unas Cuantas Verdades (Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths) By Alejandro G. Iñárritu.
Bardo, Falsa Crónica De Unas Cuantas Verdades (Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths) by Alejandro G. Iñárritu flies the Mexican flag and is the second Netflix film in competition. Played by Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, the film from the director of Birdman And The Revenant tells the story of a Mexican journalist and documentary maker who, on the occasion of a return home, confronts his own existential crisis by clinging to his identity and family relationships.
The Lars Von Trier TV series
RIGET EXODUS (THE KINDOM EXODUS), Danish series by LARS VON TRIERwith Bodil Jørgensen, Mikael Persbrandt, Tuva Novotny, Lars Mikkelsen and Alexander Skarsgård, out of competition, will put the stamina of the festival-goers to the test with his 295 minutes. Set in the neurological department of a large Danish hospitalhas for protagonist sleepwalker Karen (Bodil Jørgensen) in search of answers to the unsolved questions in von Trier’s previous series, The Kingdom (of which a two-part film version was presented in the Window on the Pictures section of the Exhibition). The old feud between the Swedes and Danes is still onthe Kingdom is fragile and a curse persists.
Riget exodus (la Biennial)
Japan in Venice on September 1st
Always out of competition LIVING by OLIVER HERMANUS with Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp and Tom Burke is a adaptation of To live from 1952 by Akira Kurosawa, by the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro, sworn in the exhibition. The action moves to 1950s Britain and follows a veteran civil servant played by Bill Nighy.
Orizzonti’s proposal today comes from Japan: ARU OTOKO (A MAN) by KEI ISHIKAWA, with Satoshi Tsumabuki, Sakura Andô, Masataka Kubota, Nana Seino. The lawyer Kido (Satoshi Tsumabuki) receives a strange request from Rie (Sakura Andô), a former client of her: she wants the lawyer to do a research on the past of her last husband, Daisuke (Masataka Kubota), who died in a tragic accident. Before meeting and marrying Daisuke and before having a family with him, Rie separates from her ex-husband and returns to her birthplace with her son.
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