The 80th Venice Film Festival opened last night without much fanfare, suffering from the absence of Hollywood actors who have been on strike since July and are not allowed to promote their films.
Yesterday evening, the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival opened in unusual calm. Far doesn’t seem to appear until today.
As we know, the latter demand better payment for streaming and a regulated framework for the use of their image by artificial intelligence. In the near future, they fear that their working tool (face, body, voice) will completely or partially escape from them.
In the United States, we don’t mess with unions, and actors and actresses from Zendaya to Cate Blanchett have canceled their trip to the Dogger City after another.
Last night, therefore, the opening film at the Lido at the Palais du Cinéma was no more Challengers With Zendaya, though Commanderan Italian film that won a nice round of applause, nothing more. Commanderby Edoardo de Angelis, tells an episode of World War II through the heroism of an Italian officer (actor Pierfrancesco Favino) who dangerously welcomes enemy survivors aboard his submarine and rescues them. A military drama, gritty, nationalistic, old-fashioned, which didn’t really attract and whose intensity didn’t make the evening soar.
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The same sullen tone on the red carpet. The stars of the evening? The juries. Damien Chazelle, 80th Mostra President, Director La la land and Babylon signed autographs, while Jane Campion, a member of his jury, was the most scrutinized.
Nothing to report about the opening ceremony, which was delivered by the energetic Caterina Murino. The highlight of this glamourous moment was the awarding of the Golden Lion of Honor to the great director Liliana Cavani, 90, who is known for her signature signature of many a transgressor. Night porter in 1974. It was his translator at the time, Charlotte Rampling, who paid tribute to him on stage, recalling the importance of this filmmaker “who confronted us with the beautiful, the ugly, the unresolved.” Kavani, for his part, emphasized that it is the first time that Venice presents an honorary lion to the director and is surprised.
However, Mostra has never looked down on female directors. its last 3 Golden Lions have been awarded to women. After the ceremony, festival-goers went to the traditional opening dinner, served on the Lido or on the super-luxurious terrace of the Gritti Hotel, a stronghold of one of the festival’s partners, Cartier.
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Tonight, in an exception to the rule, Adam Driver should be present on the red carpet to support the film Ferrari, by special permission of SAG-AFTRA, America’s powerful actors/writers union. Likewise, Jessica Chastain is expected to make an appearance later in the week to accompany A memory. Bans that do not apply to French actors. Isabelle Huppert and Vincent Lyndon are expected at the Cartier event at Palazzo Giustinian tonight.
Source: Le Figaro
