The 80th Venice Film Festival takes place from August 30 to September 9. The opening film will be The Commander by Edoardo de Angelis, replacing the previously announced Challengers starring Zendaya. The closing film will be J.A. Bayona’s La Sociedad de la nieve, out of competition. In a previous article, we announced the juries.
The 23 films selected for competition include American and Italian films (6 features each) as well as three French features.
Sofia Coppola will present Priscilla, a biopic about Priscilla Presley based on her memoir « Elvis and me », with Cailee Spaeny in the lead role. Another biopic, that of Enzo Ferrari, starring Adam Driver and written by Michael Mann, will also be presented in competition. A third biopic, Maestro, by and starring Bradley Cooper, is dedicated to Leonard Bernstein, a legendary film composer.
The Promised Land, a Danish historical film about the 18th-century colonization of the Jutland wilderness by the Kingdom of Denmark, starring Mads Mikkelsen and directed by Nikolaj Arcel, is one of the most eagerly awaited projects of La Mostra 2023.
The following films are also in contention for the Golden Lion:
The Killer by David Fincher
El Conde by Pablo Larrain
Poor things by Yórgos Lánthimos
DogMan by Luc Besson
The Beast by Bertrand Bonello
Hors-saison by Stéphane Brizé
Enea by Pietro Castellito
Finalmente L’Alba by Savrio Costanzo
The Commander by ‘Edoardo de Angelis
Lubo by Giorgio Diritti
Origin by Ava Duvernay
Memory by Michel Franco
Io Capitano by Matteo Garrone
Evil does not exist by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
The Green Border by Agnieszeka Holland
The Theory of Everything by Timm Kroger
Adagio by Stefano Sollima
Holly by Fien Troch
Woman of… by Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert
Enea by Pietro Castellito
With: Pietro Castellitto, Benedetta Porcaroli, Giorgio Quarzo Guarascio, Chiara Noschese, Giorgio Montanini, Adamo Dionisi, Matteo Branciamore, Cesare Castellitto, Sergio Castellitto
Our Rate: –
DogMan by Luc Besson
With: Caleb Landry Jones, Jojo T. Gibbs, Christopher Denham, Grace Palma, Marisa Berenson, Michael Garza, James Payton, Eric Carter, Frédéric Guérin, Bennett Saltzman
Our rate: **(*)
Adagio by Stefano Sollima
With: Pierfrancesco Favino, Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea, Adriano Giannini, Emilio Franchini, Marzio El Moety
Our Rate: *