23 films compete for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Including “TÁR” with Nina Hoss and Cate Blanchett.
Venice – Top German actress Nina Hoss can be seen alongside two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
The film “TÁR” by the American Todd Fields, in which Blanchett embodies a chief conductor, is one of a total of 23 films in competition for the Golden Lion in the northern Italian lagoon city. Parts of the film were shot in the Dresden Philharmonic.
The 79th edition of the Film Biennale, whose program Alberto Barbera, Biennale Director for Cinema, presented together with Biennale President Roberto Cicutto on Tuesday, runs from August 31st to September 10th. It opens with US director Noah Baumbach’s film White Noise, starring Greta Gerwig, Adam Driver and Lars Eidinger, based on a novel by Don DeLillo. The president of the jury is the US actress Julianne Moore.
Five of the competition films come from Italy and five from France. Penélope Cruz, who starred in Pedro Almodóvar’s opening film Madres paralelas (‘Parallel Mothers’) in Venice last year, stars in Italian director Emanuele Crialese’s ‘L’Immensità’ (‘Infinity’).
Taxi Tehran director Jafar Panahi, whose arrest was reported in Iran in mid-July, is included with Khers Nist (No bears), one of two Iranian films in the competition. Romain Gavras, son of legendary director Constantin Costa-Gavras, is represented in Venice with the film “Athena” about social conflicts in a suburb. dpa
