Six Italian films are in the running
for the Golden Lion at this year's 80th annual Venice Film
Festival from August 30 to September 9, artistic director
Alberto Barbera and Biennale president Roberto Cicutto announced
on Tuesday.
The films defending Italy's colours are 'Comandante' by Edoardo
De Angelis starring Pierfrancesco Favino, which will have its
would première as the opening film in competition; 'Io Capitano'
by Matteo Garrone; 'Finalmente l'alba' by Saverio Costanzo;
'Enea' by Pietro Castellitto; 'Lubo' by Giorgio Diritti; and
'Adagio' by Stefano Sollima, again starring Favino alongside
Toni Servillo and Valerio Mastandrea.
Foreign films in the competition line-up include Luc Besson's
Dogma; Maestro, the second film directed by Bradley Cooper on
the life story of composer Bernstein; Priscilla, Sofia Coppola's
long-awaited new film on the true story of Elvis Presley's wife;
The Killer, the new thriller by David Fincher starring Michael
Fassbender; Poor Things by Yorgos Lantimos starring Emma Stone,
a sort of female Frankenstein; El Conde by Pablo Larrain with a
vampire Pinochet and Ferrari by Michael Mann with Adam Driver
and Penelope Cruz.
New films by Woody Allen, Roman Polanski and Liliana Cavani will
instead be showing out of competition.
In total there are 23 films in competition.
Photo: Italian director Matteo Garrone.
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