Five Italian films will be in the
running for the Golden Lion at the 81st Venice Film Festival,
which takes place from August 28 to September 7 and will be
packed with Hollywood stars, organizers said on Tuesday.
The Italian movies in competition are Gianni Amelio's
Battlefield; Maura Delpero's Vermiglio; Iddu by Fabio
Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza with Toni Servillo and Elio
Germano; Luca Guadagnino's Queer starring Daniel Craig; and
Giulia Steigerwalt's Diva Futura.
The festival will open with the premier of Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice, the long awaited sequel to Tim Burton's cult 1988
fantasy horror comedy.
The follow-up, again directed by Burton and starring Michael
Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Justin Theroux, and
Monica Bellucci, and with Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe, is Out
of Competition at the world's oldest film fest.
Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore and John Turturro are also coming
to the festival to present Pedro Almodóvar's The Room Next Door.
Brad Pitt and George Clooney pair up in Jon Watts' Wolfs and
Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce and Felicity Jones feature in Brady
Corbet's The Brutalist.
Then there will be Jude Law for Justin Kurzel's The Order and
Angelina Jolie for Pablo Larrain's Maria, which also stars
Italy's Pierfrancesco Favino and Alba Rohrwacher.
Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga are the stars of another hotly
awaited sequel Joker: Folie a Deux by Todd Phillips.
Antonio Banderas and Nicole Kidman will also be in Venice for
Halina Reijn's Babygirl.
Photo: Giulia Steigerwalt.
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