Spanish director Jaume Claret Muxart (Barcelona, 27 years old) will compete in the Horizons section of the Venice Festival with its Prima Opera Strange river (Strange river), as the organizers of the contest announced on Tuesday, which will begin on August 27. Inspired by their own family trips, the Catalan filmmaker portrays the “emancipation trip of a teenager on a family vacation by bicycle by the Danube river”, according to the synopsis published by its producers. In this edition, the Spanish presence is completed with actresses Carmen Maura and Marta Etura, protagonists of Malaga street, of the Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Touzani, in the Venice Spotlight section.
The movie Grace, Written and directed by the Oscar -winter Italian director Paolo Sorrentino, will open, in world premiere and in competition, the 82nd edition. The film is starring its fetish actor, Toni Servillo, and Anna Ferzetti and will be screened in the Grand Hall of the Palazzo del Cinema, in the Venetian Lido.
Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro will premiere in competition his version of Frankensteinstarring Jacob Elordi. He will face Yorgos Lanthimos who competes with Bugonia; Kathryn Bigelow llega con A House of Dynamite; Noah Baumbach It occurs with Jay Kelly; Jim Jarmusch, con Father Mother Sister Brother; y Olivier Assayas, con The Wizard of the Kremlin.
Julia Roberts will step on the Festival’s red carpet for the first time to present After the hunt, Luca Guadagnino’s new film, which will participate outside competition. In this same section you can see In the hand of Dante, by Julian Schnabel, about the search for the original manuscript lost of The divine comedy, De Dante, a film in which the actors Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Gerard Butler, John Malkovich, Jason Mummy, Franco Nero, Martin Scorsese and El Pacino participate. The latter is also part of the cast of Dead Man’s Wire, of director Gus van Sant.
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“A mysterious boy appears among the waters of the river. His enigmatic presence not only awakens something new in Dídac but begins to alter the relationship with his family,” says Narra Strange river. With this plot, Claret participates in the second most important section of the Venetian Mostra, Horizons, dedicated to the new avant -garde and film currents.
Rolled in 16 millimeters format, it is a co -production between Spain and Germany and has the participation of Catalan public television 3cat and RTVE. The film will arrive at theaters on October 3, after passing through the Mostra, which is held until September 6.
Maura returns to the festival with a film that tells the resistance of an older woman against her daughter’s decision to sell her home in Tangier. The actress returns to an event where she received the award for best actress for Women on the verge of a nervous attack (1988) by Pedro Almodóvar.
Puerto Rican Bad Bunny will participate in Venice’s show with the film Sad neighborhood in which he acts. The film is directed by Stillz, an American of Colombian origin, with which the artist had already collaborated in several video clips.