VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2023 - competition films

[Chris Knipp]

VENEZIA 80

Wed, Aug 30, 2023 – Sat, Sep 9, 2023



Maestro (Bradley Cooper)

Competition Films


BASTARDEN (THE PROMISED LAND)
Director Nikolaj Arcel
Main Cast Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, Melina Hagberg, Kristine Kujath Thorp, Gustav Lindh / Denmark, Germany, Sweden / 127’

DOGMAN
Director Luc Besson
Main Cast Caleb Landry Jones, Jojo T. Gibbs, Christopher Denham, Clemens Schick, Grace Palma / France / 114’

LA BÊTE
Director Bertrand Bonello
Main Cast Léa Seydoux, George MacKay / France, Canada / 146’

HORS-SAISON
Director Stéphane Brizé
Main Cast Guillaume Canet, Alba Rohrwacher / France / 115’

ENEA
Director Pietro Castellitto
Main Cast Pietro Castellitto, Giorgio Quarzo Guarascio, Benedetta Porcaroli, Chiara Noschese, Giorgio Montanini, Adamo Dionisi, Matteo Branciamore, Cesare Castellitto, Sergio Castellitto / Italy / 115’

MAESTRO
Director Bradley Cooper
Main Cast Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke, Sarah Silverman, Josh Hamilton, Scott Ellis, Gideon Glick, Sam Nivola, Alexa Swinton, Miriam Shor / USA / 129’


Priscilla (Sofia Coppola)

PRISCILLA
Director Sofia Coppola
Main Cast Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Dagmara Dominczyk / USA, Italy / 110’

FINALMENTE L’ALBA
Director Saverio Costanzo
Main Cast Lily James, Rebecca Antonaci, Joe Keery, Rachel Sennott, Alba Rohrwacher, Willem Dafoe / Italy / 142’

COMANDANTE
Director Edoardo De Angelis
Main Cast Pierfrancesco Favino, Massimiliano Rossi, Johan Heldenbergh, Arturo Muselli, Giuseppe Brunetti, Gianluca Di Gennaro, Johannes Wirix, Silvia D’Amico, Paolo Bonacelli / Italy / 120’

LUBO
Director Giorgio Diritti
Main Cast Franz Rogowski, Christophe Sermet, Valentina Bellè, Noemi Besedes, Cecilia Steiner, Joel Basman, Filippo Giulini, Alessandro Zappella / Italy, Switzerland / 175’

ORIGIN
Director Ava DuVernay
Main Cast Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Niecy Nash-Betts, Audra McDonald, Nick Offerman, Connie Nielsen / USA / 135’

THE KILLER
Director David Fincher
Main Cast Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Kerry O’Malley, Sophie Charlotte, Emiliano Pernía, Gabriel Polanco / USA / 118’

MEMORY
Director Michel Franco
Main Cast Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Brooke Timber, Merritt Wever, Elsie Fisher, Jessica Harper, Josh Charles / Mexico, USA / 100’

IO CAPITANO
Director Matteo Garrone
Main Cast Seydou Sarr, Moustapha Fall / Italy, Belgium / 121’

AKU WA SONZAI SHINAI (EVIL DOES NOT EXIST)
Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Main Cast Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani / Japan / 106’

ZIELONA GRANICA (GREEN BORDER)
Director Agnieszka Holland
Main Cast Jalal Altawil, Maja Ostaszewska, Tomasz Włosok, Behi Djanati Atai, Mohamad Al Rashi, Dalia Naous / Poland, Czech Republic, France, Belgium / 147’

DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM
Director Timm Kröger
Main Cast Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuss, David Bennent, Philippe Graber / Germany, Austria, Switzerland / 118’

POOR THINGS
Director Yorgos Lanthimos
Main Cast Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, Suzy Bemba, Jerrod Carmichael, Kathryn Hunter, Vicki Pepperdine, Margaret Qualley, Hanna Schygulla / UK / 141’

EL CONDE
Director Pablo Larraín
Main Cast Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, Alfredo Castro, Paula Luchsinger / Chile / 110’

FERRARI
Director Michael Mann
Main Cast Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon, Gabriel Leone, Jack O’Connell, Patrick Dempsey / USA / 130’

ADAGIO
Director Stefano Sollima
Main Cast Pierfrancesco Favino, Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea, Adriano Giannini, Gianmarco Franchini, Francesco Di Leva, Lorenzo Adorni, Silvia Salvatori / Italy / 127’

KOBIETA Z... (WOMAN OF)
Director Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert
Main Cast Małgorzata Hajewska-Krzysztofik, Joanna Kulig, Bogumila Bajor, Mateusz Wieclawek / Poland, Sweden / 132’

HOLLY
Director Fien Troch
Main Cast Cathalina Geraerts, Felix Heremans, Greet Verstraete, Serdi Faki Alici, Els Deceukelier / Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France / 102’


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Hors saison (Stéphane Brizé)