Two of the most highly anticipated
Hollywood stars to hit the 81st edition of the Venice Film
Festival on Sunday, Brad Pitt and George Clooney, are presenting
a film out of competition, Wolfs by Jon Watts.
The two actors star as two fixers who must cooperate to cancel
all traces of a crime.
Meanwhile Adrien Brody on Sunday is in competition with The
Brutalist by Brady Corbet - the story of a Jewish architect who
survives the Holocaust, László Tóth, his wife and the American
dream.
Also in competition is Ainda Estou Aqui (I'm Still Here) by
Walter Salles, based on a novel by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, on a
family victim of the military regime in Brazil in 1971.
Films debuting out of competition at the festival include Marco
Bellocchio's Se Posso Permettermi - Capitolo II (May I say? -
Chapter II), the follow-up of a short film made in 2019 with the
participation of Bobbio, as part of the training programme
Bottega XNL - Fare Cinema, as well as Alice Rohrwacher and
French video artist Jr Allégorie Citadine.
In the Horizons category, Italy's Familia by Francesco Costabile
is competing for an award with the story of a family in crisis
after the dominating father, after disappearing for 10 years,
wants a rapprochement with his children.
Also starring is the only Italian film competing for an award in
the Settimana della Critica (Critics' Week), Anywhere Anytime by
Milad Tangshir, the story of a migrant in Turin who hopes to
change his life by working as a rider.
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