Pedro Almodovar's first
English-language film The Room Next Door and the second of the
five Italian contenders for the Golden Lion, Maura Delpero's
Vermiglio (Vermilion), are set to debut at the Venice Film
Festival Monday.
The Room Next Door stars Julianne Moore as an author of
semi-autobiographical novels and fellow Oscar winner Tilda
Swinton, an Amodovar habitueé, as a war reporter, who meet up
again after many years and try to rebuild their connection.
Vermiglio, the director says, "is a war story without bombs or
big battles, in the ironclad logic of the mountains which every
day remind man how small he is".
Other protagonist of the day will be Peter Weir who is getting a
career Lion, accompanied by the showing of one of his films,
Master and Commander, and Claude Lelouch who is getting the
Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award and is presenting out of
competition his latest film, Finalement with Kad Merad.
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