Angelina Jolie Triumphs, Erotic Dramas Make a Comeback and More Venice Film Festival Takeaways

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TV Crashes the LidoVenice is an essential stop for movies looking to generate Oscar heat, but this year the festival is raising the profile of some 2025 Emmy contenders. The Venice lineup was awash in auteur directors and movie stars dipping their toes into small-screen waters. Chief among them was “Disclaimer,” Alfonso Cuarón’s erotically charged psychological thriller for Apple TV+, which stars Cate Blanchett as a documentary maker whose past comes back to haunt her. The steamy first four episodes received a rapturous reception on the second day of the fest, earning a five-minute standing ovation.

Cuarón isn’t the only filmmaker to make the leap to episodic entertainment. He was joined by fellow Oscar winner Thomas Vinterberg, who unveiled the climate-change drama “Families Like Ours,” his first project since “Another Round.” Meanwhile, Joe Wright brought things closer to home with “M. Son of the Century,” his biopic series about Benito Mussolini, Italy’s notorious wartime dictator. Moving to television has allowed Cuarón, Vinterberg and Wright more room to realize their epic visions, but it’s also a sign of the greater freedom and financing available there at a time when the movie business is retracting.

Palestinian Directors Sound OffUnlike Cannes or Berlin, which always seem consumed with politics, Venice has rarely been a platform for protests or activism. And yet, the ongoing devastation in Gaza has led to a charged atmosphere. On the first day of the festival, a letter signed by more than 300 filmmakers, actors, writers and musicians was released that condemned the inclusion of two Israeli films in the Venice lineup — “Of Dogs and Men” and “Why War.” They claimed the pictures were made by companies involved in “whitewashing Israel’s oppression against Palestinians.” The letter writers urged the festival not to “program productions” they said were complicit in human rights abuses. Earlier in the day, another letter was released — signed by almost 70 Palestinian filmmakers, including Hany Abu-Assad, Elia Suleiman and Farah Nabulsi — that took a broader swipe, accusing Hollywood of “dehumanizing” Palestinian people for decades, something they said has helped enable the current bloodshed in Gaza.

At the festival in Venice, attendees have been enduring a scorching heatwave, yet finding relief in air-conditioned theaters has proven challenging. This year’s film selection is dominated by passion-filled, sensual movies that have heated up the atmosphere. The lineup boasts films like “Babygirl,” starring Kidman as a powerful CEO engaged in an intense affair with her intern (Dickinson), and Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer,” which features Daniel Craig as a middle-aged American expat infatuated with a younger man. Alongside these age-gap romantic dramas, Alfonso Cuarón’s “Disclaimer” is overtly sensual, a trait that aligns with the controversy his earlier work, “Y Tu Mamá También,” faced with censors two decades ago. In recent years, Hollywood has been producing fewer explicit thrillers like “Basic Instinct” and “Fatal Attraction.” However, the erotic offerings at Venice suggest we may be witnessing a revival of on-screen nudity.

In the realm of festivals like Sundance and Toronto and Sundance film Festival, the bidding wars have long been seen as a traditional part of the event such a context, several films have become more solemn-outed with lavish premieres for movies that were sold elsewhere, has not done so in Italy, has witnessed a shift. However, as the Venice Film Festival is unfolding this year’s competition, it seems to witness a flurge-screen bidding wars. At both Sundance, the traditionally associated with Sundance and Toronto Film Festival, but this year, studios and streaming services are not as common practice. Instead, however, since two of the most anticipated films, namely “Maria” and “Queer”sold to Netflix and A244 features such as “Maria” and “Queer”, who have been sold to Netflix, andhe a historical epic (The Bruton), and “Vermier’s”, an Italian drama” set against the backdrop of a World War II drama set in the era of World War II. Moreover, the Italian historical epic “Brutalogues “The Brutal is also a historical epic, a sprawling popular, as it being Adrien Brody withstoodst of the same-named “Vermiglio faced back then. In recent times past. In Venice, which has experienced a shift towardser-like the Fatal Attrinity “Sundance,” but this year, it seems that Venice in this year’s usher witnessing a resurgence for such nudity onstage.

Angelina Hits All the Right NotesIt’s been years since Jolie had a role worthy of her talent. But that’s about to change with her latest film, “Maria,” in which she plays legendary diva Maria Callas. The film dazzled critics, earned a thunderous ovation and generated awards buzz for its star. EbMaster’s Owen Gleiberman raved that Jolie “reminds you that she can be a deadly serious actor of commanding subtlety and power.” And he’s not alone, with other reviewers praising her for humanizing the tempestuous singer and showing how Callas’ fame became a kind of prison. That’s a fate that Jolie, who has been hounded by the paparazzi and the tabloids for decades, understands all too well. Only with “Maria,” this time the attention is shifting away from Jolie’s celebrity and back to her art.

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2024-09-03 20:47