The 2021 Venice Film Festival is set to begin and will be an in-person event. And that means COVID controls will be in place with social distancing inside the theaters and vaccination status verification or a recent negative test will be required for entry in to screenings. The 78th annual international film fest will begin today and will be held until September 11th. This will be the first opportunity to see some of the upcoming films that will be released later this fall and winter.
The latest from Pedro Almodóvar, "Madres Paralelas (Parallel Mothers)" will open the festival and make it's world premiere. Penelope Cruz and Milena Smit star as two single pregnant women who each have different views on their impending accidental pregnancies and while they wait to give birth, the conversation they share will impact the rest of their lives. "Madres Paralelas" is due to be released in the US on December 24th.
The South Korean director, Bong Joon-ho was selected as this year's Jury President and his fellow jurors, Italian director/writer, Saverio Costanzo; Belgian actress, Virginie Efira; British actress and singer, Cynthia Erivo; Canadian actress, Sarah Gadon; Romanian-German director, Alexander Nanau and Chinese director/writer (and recent Oscar-winner), Chloé Zhao will decide on which films will receive prizes. Some of the films in the main international competition will include new works by Paolo Sorrentino ("È stata la mano di Dio (The Hand of God)"), Ana Lily Amirpour ("Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon"), Paul Schrader ("The Card Counter"), Jane Campion ("The Power of the Dog"), Pablo Larraín ("Spencer"), Mario Martone ("Qui rido io") and the directorial debut by actress, Maggie Gyllenhaal ("The Lost Daughter").
Denis Villeneuve’s highly anticipated sci-fi adventure, "Dune", that features an impressive all-star cast including Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Zendaya, Charlotte Rampling, Jason Momoa, and Javier Bardem, will be screened out of competition and makes it's world premiere at Venice. The film is set to be released in theaters and HBO Max on October 22nd.
Roberto Benigni, the Oscar-winning, Italian actor/filmmaker and actress, Jamie Lee Curtis will each receive an honorary Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Curtis will also be on hand for the world premiere of her latest film, "Halloween Kills" from David Gordon Green. And Ridley Scott will receive this year's Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker award. The eighty-three year old British director of such cinematic classics as "Alien", "Gladiator" and "Blade Runner" will also screen his new work, "The Last Duel", a medieval action-thriller that stars, Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, Ben Affleck and the very busy, Adam Driver.
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