Venice Film Festival begins Wednesday – Observer

The Venice film festival opens on Wednesday with the musical “La la Land”, Damien Chazelle, and in the official selection will feature the Portuguese film “Saint George”, Marco Martins.

Out of respect to the victims of the earthquake that struck Amatrice, the organization canceled the gala opening, keeping only the exhibition of Damien Chazelle movie with Rian Gosling and Emma Stone in the lead roles. It will be the debut of Damien Chazelle, 31, in competition in Venice.

The festival fulfills 73rd edition and display until September 10, films like “The bad batch” of Ana Lily Amirpour “Jackie” by Pablo Larraín, with Natalie Portman, “Voyage of Time: Life’s journey,” documentary by Terrence Malick, and “Arrival” by Denis Villeneuve, all in competition

The “. Orizzonti “dedicated to” new trends in global cinema “, will open on Thursday with the feature film” Saint George “, Marco Martins, with actor Nuno Lopes to interpret an unemployed boxer is obliged to work in collections debt to survive

With the closure because of a new version of “the magnificent Seven,” Antoine Fuqua, Venice will still show two White Paulo productions:. “the beautiful days of Aranjuez”, the German Wim Wenders, awarded director in Venice in 1982 (with “the state of things”), now also in competition, and “to never,” the French Benoît Jacquot, entirely shot in Portugal, showing out of competition.

actor Mel Gibson shows, as a director, the film “Hacksaw Ridge” and Paolo Sorrentino will show the first two episodes of the miniseries “the Young Pope,” with Jude Law.

the festival Venice is still dedicated to “two major recently deceased directors”: Michael Cimino and Abbas Kiarostami. The first will show the film “The Year of the Dragon” (1985) and the Iranian filmmaker, a short will be shown in what would be the work of the series “24 Frames”.

This year the direction of festival announced some changes, including the creation of the “Venice Production Bridge”, a review of the program in which producers and directors looking for financing for future film projects.

the jury will be chaired by British director Sam Mendes.

the French actor Jean-Paul Belmondo and Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski will receive the Lion Career Gold.