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Announced competition in Venice in 2016, the festival mixture Wenders with Kusturica, Tom Ford, Malick, among others. St. George, Marco Martins, competes in the Orizzonti section

A parade of the best movies of next season at the Lido. This is what you can expect from the next Venice Film Festival, beginning on August 31, after yesterday was presented the official selection. In addition to great names of world cinema and premium product of Hollywood, there is the announcement of a Portuguese Marco Martins, not in the official competition, but in the Orizzonti, parallel section which mainly invests in discovery.

St George , played by Nuno Lopes, is a journey through the soul of a boxer Greater Lisbon in the years of the troika in Portugal starts working in a collections agency “difficult” to pay their own debts. It is known that the director How To Draw A Perfect Circle have worked with non-professional actors and the film crosses the fiction with documentary language.

In the official selection itself, but out of competition, there is a co-production between France and Portugal, to never , Benoît Jacquot, with Mathieu Amalric and Portuguese Victoria War Elmano Sanches, José Neto and Rui Morrison. An adaptation of Body Artist , Don DeLillo, written by himself Jacquot and actress Julia Roy. The film is produced by Paulo Branco, who managed to put in competition The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez , a work produced for Wim Wenders, with Reda Ketab, Sophie Semin and Nick Cave, in this case a part of the adaptation Peter Handke, already staged in Portugal.

sounding titles is not lacking this year in the city of gondolas. One of the most anticipated is the first American film by Chilean Pablo Larrain, Jackie a biopic about Jackie Kennedy, produced by Darren Aronofsky with Natalie Portman in the skin of JFK’s wife, who here is played by Peter Sarsgaard . After Cannes (Directors’ Fortnight), with Neruda , new Larraín to look at a fascinating public figure.

Immense expectations also for cosmic documentary Terrence Malick, Voyage of Time , narrated by Cate Blanchett, a work that will be seen in Venice in a 90-minute version and later will hit IMAX theaters with shorter duration. Malick has meanwhile completed the Shooting Weightless on the Texas music scene, probably in the pipeline to Berlin or Cannes.

There is another American with favoritism air, The Light Between Oceans Derek Cianfrance, one of the most founded American film promises here a chronicle of stolen motherhood. Rachel Weisz, Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander are the stars.

And in Cannes there was cannibalism with complimentary Nicolas Winding Refn in The Neon Demon now the dose takes certificate of Iranian Ana Lily Amirpour that in the Bad Batch takes us to a fantasy world pontificate by people like Jim Carrey, Jason Momoa and Keanu Reeves. totally free auteur cinema that has everything to be the festival UFO. Unless the aliens Canadian Denis Villeneuve on Arrival, Amy Adams, are even more unusual or female revenge the same Amy Adams in Night Animals, Tom Ford, even more convoluted. Animals arriving not long after the Portuguese cinemas and bring Jake Gyllenhaal.

Still in the competition, especially filmmakers who have had better days, as Emir Kusturica, who finally managed to put a big festival your on the Milky Road , where he himself is the main actor alongside Monica Bellucci, and Andrey Konchalovskiy, Russian filmmaker who in the 1980s was consensual. Your new film gives the Paradise name and takes us into the Second World War.

In France the emphasis is Frantz , the film “German” by François Ozon, with one Pierre Nimey to crave the award for best interpretation, but be an eye the new Stéphane Brizé, the director of the Market Act , premiered with us in the spring.

Venice also opens with a film that everyone wants to see: La La Land , Damien Chazelle, a musical set in Hollywood with the pair, Stupid, Love Crazy, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling. The bad tongues say that was refused in Cannes but Alberto Barbera, artistic director of Venice, gave him the opening honors and place in the competition. It is well able to be found the Moulin Rouge for a new generation.

Absences

Cause some perplexity absences movies like Nocturama , Bertrand Bonello; Colorado , Teresa Villaverde, and Rules Do not Aply , Warren Beatty. It remains, of course, even the announcement of the New York Festival, which at least two or three major world premieres can always …

Out of the Festival Goer circuit is even The Hudson River Miracle , Clint Eastwood, Tom Hanks, the most anticipated film of the rentrée. As has happened in recent years, Warner prevents Eastwood wear master of protocol obligations of these great events.

In the Off Contest , all roads lead to battlefield of World War II in Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson, and Nick Cave, Andrew Dominik’s documentary object, One More Time with Feeling .