(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) OUT OF COMPETITION - NON FICTION THE MATCHMAKER di BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI Italia / 90’ SINOSSI Tooba Gondal è una delle più famigerate jihadiste britanniche. Only twenty years old, left London to join the Islamic State and became known worldwide as “The ISIS Matchmaker”, accused of recruiting a dozen Western women to marry ISIS fighters. Between 2014 and the
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(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Fuori Concorso PAOLO VIRZI’ E I CAMBIAMENTI CLIMATICI VENEZIA 79 Concorso BLONDE di ANDREW DOMINIK con Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, Julianne Nicholson, Lily Fisher / USA / 165’ SINOSSI Tratto dal romanzo di successo di Joyce Carol Oates, Blonde daringly traces the life of one of Hollywood's timeless icons, Marilyn Monroe. From her precarious childhood as Norma Jeane, up to
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #14: (DAY 8) Vittorio De Agro's reviews
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) ALICE DIOP INCANTA IL LIDO VENEZIA 79 Concorso SAINT OMER di ALICE DIOP con Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valerie Dreville, Aurelia Petit / France / 122’ Sinossi: Court of Saint-Omer. The young writer Rama attends the trial of Laurence Coly, a woman accused of killing her fifteen-month-old daughter, abandoned at high tide on a beach in northern France. But while the process
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #13: (DAY 8) The pills from Maria Vittoria Battaglia's WEB
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) La Mostra è accanto all’Ucraina con un doc che testimonia le atrocità della guerra ORIZZONTI LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG di ANTONIO LUKICH con Amil Nasirov, Ramil Nasirov, Lyudmyla Sachenko / Ukraine / 105’ SINOSSI Ci sono tanti posti bellissimi dove morire. Luxembourg is not one of them. Beautiful or not, anyway, in Luxembourg it is very expensive to die. When twins learn that their father, who have not seen since
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(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Zeller posegue la sua trilogia sulla famiglia con uno strepitoso Anthony Hopkins VENEZIA 79 Concorso THE SON di FLORIAN ZELLER con Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Quarshie / UK / 123’ SINOSSI Un dramma che segue una famiglia che lotta per tornare unita dopo essersi sfasciata. The Son is all about Peter, whose busy life with her newborn son
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #11: (DAY 7) The pills from Maria Vittoria Battaglia's WEB
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Fuori concorso il testamento del regista recentemente scomparso KIM KI-DUK ORIZZONTI OBEŤ (VICTIM) di MICHAL BLAŠKO con Vita Smachelyuk, Gleb Kuchuk, Igor Chmela, Viktor Zavadil, Inna Zhulina, Alena Mihulová / Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany / 91’ SINOSSI Quando il figlio dell’immigrata ucraina Irina viene aggredito, the entire city stands in solidarity with his family and condemns the Roma neighbors, suspected of committing the crime.
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(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) Two eagerly awaited films in competition by G. Amelio e Joanna Hogg infiammano il Lido VENEZIA 79 Concorso IL SIGNORE DELLE FORMICHE di GIANNI AMELIO con Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Leonardo Maltese, Sara Serraiocco / Italy / 134’ SINOSSI Alla fine degli anni Sessanta si celebrò a Roma un processo che fece scalpore. The playwright and poet Aldo Braibanti was sentenced to nine years' imprisonment
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #9: (DAYS 5&6) Vittorio De Agro's reviews
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) There are films that ask many questions about existence, e purtroppo non danno risposte VENEZIA 79 Concorso LES ENFANTS DES AUTRES di REBECCA ZLOTOWSKI con Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Clare Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira / France / 104’ Una donna priva dall'istinto materno va giudicata, seen differently than the rest of the female universe? Also discovering that you want a child when your biological clock is running backwards
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(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) SERGEI LOZNITSA returns to the Lido with a very current powerful documentary, mentre nella sezione autonoma GdA si racconta dell’ultima regina della sponda sud mediterranea FUORI CONCORSO - NON FICTION THE KIEV TRIAL di SERGEI LOZNITSA Paesi Bassi, Ukraine / 106’ SINOSSI Il processo di Kiev, also known as the 'Nuremberg of Kiev', took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and it was one of the first trials
#VENEZIA79 - 31/8 -10/9/2022 SPECIAL #7: (DAYS 2 – 4) – Vittorio De Agro's reviews
(from Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Maria Vittoria Battaglia, Vittorio De Agrò and Anna Maria Stramondo - Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale) LUCA GUADAGNINO conquers the public, Abel Ferrara confronts the spirituality of Padre Pio (St Pio of Petralcina) usando incautamente l’inglese VENEZIA 79 Concorso BONES AND ALL di LUCA GUADAGNINO con Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, Andre Holland, Chloë Sevigny, Jessica Harper, David Gordon Green, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jake Horowitz / USA / 130’ È complicato esprimere un giudizio definitivo sull’ultimo film di Luca