F.rancia, Italy and the USAthe three countries that monopolize the Competition with 16 films (due to silence of the co-productions), are now represented by the three films of the main competition. Les enfants des autres by Rebecca Zlotowski, with Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianniis a personal story, barely disguised, of the author who presented Out of Competition in Venice in 2016 Planetarium, and his life partner, director Jacques Audiard.
Virginie Efira in Les enfants des autres.
Rachel (Virginie Efira) loves her existence, her students, her friends, her ex-boyfriend, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali (Roschdy Zem), she bonds deeply with his four-year-old daughter, Leila. She loves her as her mother that she is not hers. Rachel is forty years old and the desire to have a family of her own intensifies.
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The immensity: Penélope Cruz, between mother and daughter
Penélope Cruz, life, career and loves
Also The Immensity by Emanuele Crialese with Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni is a personal story. Set in Rome, in the 70s, in an era of great social and cultural changes, focuses on the relationship between a mother (Penélope Cruz) and a daughter: the first is close to family reality, the second does not feel that it corresponds to its own identity and name.
The Whale by Darren Aronofsky
Brendan Fraser in Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale
The Whale by Darren Aronofsky with Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Samantha Morton, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins is drawn from the 2012 play of the same name by playwright Samuel D. Hunter, set in a room, The Whale is the story of a teacher named Charlie (Brendan Fraser). The man suffers from obesity and decides to give himself one last chance to rebuild the relationship with his teenage daughter (Sadie Sink, Stranger Things). The two, in fact, became strangers after Charlie abandoned the family for the love of a man, who later died. For the pain, the protagonist began to eat compulsively. Habitué of Venice, Aronofsky in 2006 led to the exhibition The Fountainand in 2008 The Wrestler who won the Golden Lion. The black Swan (Oscar as protagonist for Natalie Portman) had opened the show in 2011. Con Mother! (2017) is back in competition.
The Kiev Trial by Sergei Loznitsa
The KIev Trial
The Kiev Trial by Sergei Loznitsa (the author of Austerlitz And Donbass)Out of competition, is the trial that in 1946 was among the first in the post-war period to condemn the Nazis captured by the Soviets for the crimes committed against Ukrainian Jews. Fifteen criminals, guilty of atrocities later identified by the Nuremberg trial as ” crimes against humanity ”, they encounter justice in case No. 1679: ” Hon the atrocities committed by fascist invaders on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR ”.
Far West on the Gargano
Elodie in “I eat your heart”
Horizons proposes I eat your heart by Pippo Mezzapesa with Elodie, Francesco Patanè, Francesco Di Leva, Lidia Vitale, Brenno Placido, Tommaso Ragno, Michele Placido. Puglia. Forgotten by God, the highlands of the Gargano are fought over by criminals who seem to come from a distant time. A land from the Far West, in which blood washes with blood.
The trailer for “I eat your heart”. Elodie’s debut as an actress
To rekindle the hatred between two rival families, a forbidden love: that between Andrea (Francesco Patanè), heir of the Malatesta family, and Marilena (Elodie), the beautiful wife of the boss of the Camporeale.
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