The 76th Annual Venice Film Festival is set to begin on August 28th and will conclude on September 7th. This Italian-based fest is the oldest in the world and will be the first opportunity to see some of the interesting and award-worthy films that will reach theaters this fall.
"La Verite (The Truth)", the latest by Hirokazu Kore-eda who received several honors last year including the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign-Language Film for "Shoplifters", has been selected as the Opening Night Film. This mostly French language film stars the legendary Catherine Deneuve as a legendary French film star who has just published her memoirs. Her daughter (Oscar-winner, Juliette Binoche), who has returned home with her American husband (Ethan Hawke) and their child for a visit, is triggered to confront her mother about some long-held resentments due to this book.
The latest works by some of the world's most acclaimed filmmakers will be represented in the competition field and will include Steven Soderbergh ("The Laundromat"), Olivier Assayas ("Wasp Network"), James Gray ("Ad Astra"), Todd Phillips ("Joker"), Pablo Larrain ("Ema"), Atom Egoyan ("Guest of Honor"), Noah Baumbach ("Marriage Story") and the highly controversial, Roman Polanski with "J'Accuse (An Officer and a Spy)" which centers on the notorious 19th century political scandal, "the Dreyfus affair" and features Oscar-winner, Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Melvil Poupaud and Mathieu Amalric.
"The Burnt Orange Heresy", an erotic-thriller by Giuseppe Capotondi and based on the cult novel by Charles Willeford, will be the Closing Night Film. Set in Italy in 1970, the story deals with an art-world heist that goes very wrong and features an international cast that includes Donald Sutherland, Elizabeth Debicki, Claes Bang and Mick Jagger.
And Costa-Gavras, the politically-minded, Greek filmmaker behind such films as "Missing", "Music Box", "Hanna K." and the 1969 Oscar-winner for Best Foreign-Language Film, "Z", will receive this year's Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory To The Filmmaker Award. The eighty-six year old writer/director will also premiere his new feature film at the fest, "Adults In The Room" which examines the 2015 Greek financial crisis.
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