THE There are two films that we are most anxiously awaiting at the beginning of the second week at the Venice Film Festival: out of competition Coupe de chance by Woody Allenthe fiftieth project by the New York director, the first in French, with Lou de Laâge, Valérie Lemercier, Melvil Poupaud and Niels Schneider, promises to be a semi-serious reflection on the weight of chance in human life (one of the themes dear to the New York director) and tells of Fanny (Lou de Laage) and Jean (Melvil Poupaud), two young lovers installed in a beautiful Paris apartment, to whom life seems to smile.
Lou de Laâge and Melvil Poupaud.
When though Fanny meets her school friend Alain (Niels Schneider) again, remains hopelessly fascinated by him and the stable and bourgeois relationship ends upside down. Allen called his film a story of romance, passion and, ouch, violence in contemporary Paris.
A look at contemporary Tunisia in Horizons
And then there is Oura el jbel (Behind the mountains) Tunisian film by Mohamed Ben Attia in Horizons. After four years in prison and separation from his wife, Rafik is desperate to reconnect with his son. To do this, he kidnaps him in broad daylight, taking him into the woods to show him his new discovery: a hut – refuge. However, the place is not uninhabited and father and son end up imposing their presence on a local family.
Cailee Spaeny is Priscilla.
The films of the Competition on Monday 4 are the much awaited Priscilla by Sofia Coppola, than with the true and tormented story of Priscilla Beaulieu (Cailee Spaeny), Elvis Presley’s young wife, known when the already famous singer was in military service in Germany, continues in path of female portraits started with The Garden of the Virgin Suicidesand continued with Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette, The deception.
When teenage Priscilla meets Elvis (Jacob Elordi) at a party he, who is already a rock ‘n’ roll superstarreveals an unexpected side of himself to her. Based on the 1985 biography Elvis and mewritten by the protagonist herself, promises to reveal the hidden side of a great American myth.
Priscilla Presely as Marie Antoinette
A story that began on a German Army base and continued on their dream estate at Graceland. The director stated that Priscilla is a young woman catapulted into an amplified world (Graceland), like a sort of Marie Antoinette.
With Aku Wa Sonzai Shinai (Evil does not exist) Of Ryusuke Hamaguchi, the Japanese director of Drive My Car, leads us to a remote mountain village where a community made up of locals and families transferred from the capital live in harmony.
There uA large Tokyo company intends to build a luxury campsite, endangering the delicate environmental balance and clashing with the opposition of the civilized but stubborn local population.
Die Theorie von Allem (The Theory of Everything) Of Timm Kröger, devoted lover of Alfred Hitchcock, it is the third title in the competition. The physicist Johannes in 1962 arrives in Switzerland for a scientific congress. A series of unexplained accidents lead to strange deaths on which the man decides to investigate, also thanks to the knowledge of Karin, a jazz pianist who seems to know much more than him about what is happening around them.
Pet Shop Days, the romantic thriller from Julian Schnabel’s son
Also not to be overlooked Pet Shop Days of the young Olmo Schnabel in Orizzonti Extra, romantic thriller between the impulsive Alejandro, who fled from Mexico and from a dangerous father and the naive Jack. Together, the two will explore the underground and often sordid life of New York.
Cédric Kahn always attracts us, with Le procès Goldman which had opened La Quinzaine cannense (and which no Italian distributor seems to have considered yet) had put us in a good mood at the beginning of the festival (something that didn’t happen this year in Venice). His Making of out of competition, already worth watching for the cast (Denis Podalydès, Emmanuelle Bercot, Xavier Beauvois, Valérie Donzelli), as well as for the setting between cinema and politics. Simon (Denis Podalydes), established French director, begins to shoot his own new film about the struggle of some workers to save their factory.
But nothing goes as it should: the producer Viviane (Emmanuelle Bercot) threatens him with a budget cut, his crew goes on strike, and lead actor Alain (Jonathan Cohen) turns out to be uncontrollable. His only ally in this hell is Joseph (Stefan Crepon), a young man who wants to enter the industry and agrees to shoot the making of of the film, documenting the disastrous story behind the scenes.
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