Three Italian films will be
gunning for the main Golden Lion award at the 73rd Venice Film
Festival, which runs from August 31 to September 10, organizers
announced at a press conference in Rome on Thursday.
They are Roan Johnson's Piuma (Feather), Giuseppe
Piccioni's Questi Giorni (These Days), and Spira Mirabilis, a
documentary by Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti.
Another contender for the top prize at the world's oldest
film festival is La La Land, written and directed by
Damien Chazelle (Whiplash) and starring Emma Stone, Ryan
Gosling, John Legend and J. K. Simmons (supporting actor Oscar
winner for Whiplash).
That movie will open the festival, directed by Alberto
Barbera and organised by the Venice Biennale under Paolo
Baratta, on August 31.
Other Golden Lion hopefuls include Wim Wenders' Les Beaux
Jours D'Aranjuez, Francois Ozon's Frantz, Emir Kustica's On the
Milky Road and Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals starring Jake
Gyllenhaal.
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