Venice Film Festival Says Ciao to Joker: Folie à Deux
And “Sí!” to Guadagnino, Almodóvar, and Larraín.
L. Gaga is coming home, baby! Lady Gaga’s new movie, Joker: Folie a Deux, is not just a musical putting her opposite a male megastar as his idolizing girlfriend, but it’s also premiering at the Venice Film Festival. Do you get déjà vu? Well, it’s probably because that perfectly describes her 2018 film debut, A Star Is Born, as well. Gaga had one flop and went back to the formula that works. That’s why she’s a star. Folie à Deux, starring Gaga alongside Joaquin Phoenix and directed by Todd Phillips, will premiere in competition at the festival, which runs August 28 through September 7. Festeggiamo!
Venice Film Festival set its full slate on July 23. Also on the lineup is Luca Guadagnino’s buzzy second film of the year, Queer, starring Daniel Craig; Pablo Larraín’s third big biopic, Maria, with Angelina Jolie; and Pedro Almodóvar’s first film in English, The Room Next Door. Below, the full slate of films taking the gondola over to Venice.
In Competition
The Room Next Door — Pedro Almodóvar
Campo di Battaglia (Battleground) — Gianni Amelio
Leurs enfants après eux (And Their Children After Them) — Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma
The Brutalist — Brady Corbet
Jouer avec le feu (The Quiet Son) — Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin
Vermiglio — Maura Delpero
Iddu (Sicilian Letters) — Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Queer — Luca Guadagnino
Kjærlighet (Love) — Dag Johan Haugerud
April — Dea Kulumbegashvili
The Order — Justin Kurzel
Maria — Pablo Larraín
Trois amies (Three Friends) — Emmanuel Mouret
Kill the Jockey — Luis Ortega
Joker: Folie à Deux — Todd Phillips
Babygirl — Halina Reijn
Ainda estou aqui (I’m Still Here) — Walter Salles
Diva Futura — Giulia Louise Steigerwalt
Harvest — Athina Rachel Tsangari
Qing chun gui (Youth – Homecoming) — Wang Bing
Stranger Eyes — Yeo Siew Hua
Out of Competition (Fiction)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice — Tim Burton
L’orto americano (The American Backyard) — Pupi Avati
Il tempo che ci vuole — Francesca Comencini
Phantosmia — Lav Diaz
Maldoror — Fabrice du Welz
Broken Rage — Takeshi Kitano
Baby Invasion — Harmony Korine
Cloud — Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Finalement (Finally) — Claude Lelouch
Wolfs — Jon Watts
Se posso permettermi Capitolo II — Marco Bellocchio
Allégorie citadine (An Urban Allegory) — Alice Rohrwacher, JR
Out of Competition (Non-Fiction)
Apocalipse nos trópicos (Apocalypse in the Tropics) — Petra Costa
Bestiari, erbari, lapidari (Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries) — Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti
Why War — Amos Gitai
2073 — Asif Kapadia
One to One: John & Yoko — Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards
Separated — Errol Morris
Israel Palestina på svensk TV 1958-1989 (Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989) — Göran Hugo Olsson
Russians at War — Anastasia Trofimova
TWST / Things We Said Today — Andrei Ujică
Riefenstahl — Andres Veiel
Pisni zemli, shcho povilno (Songs of Slow Burning Earth) — Olha Zhurba
Out of Competition (Series)
Disclaimer (Chapters 1–7) — Alfonso Cuarón
Los años nuevos (The New Years) (Ep. 1–10) — Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo, Sandra Romero, David Martín de los Santos
Familier som vores (Families Like Ours) (Ep. 1–7) — Thomas Vinterberg
M – Il figlio del secolo (M – Son of the Century) (Ep. 1–8) — Joe Wright
Out of Competition (Special Screenings)
Leopardi. The Poet of the Infinity (Part 1 & 2) — Sergio Rubini
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World — Peter Weir
Beauty Is Not a Sin — Nicolas Winding Refn
Horizons Competition
Nonostante — Valerio Mastandrea
Quiet Life — Alexandros Avranas
Mon inséparable (My Everything) — Anne-Sophie Bailly
Aïcha — Mehdi Barsaoui
Yin’ād ‘alīku (Happy Holidays) — Scandar Copti
Familia — Francesco Costabile
Hemme nin öldüğü günlerden biri(One of Those Days When Hemme Dies) — Murat Firatoğlu
Familiar Touch — Sarah Friedland
Marco — Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi
Carissa — Jason Jacobs, Devon Delmar
Wishing on a Star — Péter Kerekes
Mistress Dispeller — Elizabeth Lo
Anul nou care n-a fost (The New Year That Never Came) — Bogdan Mureşanu
Pooja, Sir — Deepak Rauniyar
Al klavim veanashim (Of Dogs and Men) — Dani Rosenberg
Pavements — Alex Ross Perry
Happyend — Neo Sora
L’attachement (The Ties That Bind Us) — Carine Tardieu
Diciannove (Nineteen) — Giovanni Tortorici
Horizons Short Films in Competition
Neredeyse kesinlikle yanlış (Almost Certainly False) — Cansu Baydar
Shadows — Rand Beiruty
Il burattino e la balena — Roberto Catani
Duyao mao (The Poison Cat) — Tian Guan
Nime baz, nime basteh (Ajar) — Atefeh Jalali
Three Keenings — Oliver McGoldrick
Minha mãe é uma vaca (My Mother Is a Cow) — Moara Passoni
René va alla guerra (René Goes to War) — Mariachiara Pernisa, Luca Ferri, Morgan Menegazzo
James — Andres Rodríguez
O — Rúnar Rúnarsson
Who Loves the Sun — Arshia Shakiba
Moon Lake — Jeannie Sui Wonders
Marion — Joe Weiland, Constantine Finn
Horizons Short Films Out of Competition
F II – Lo stupore del mondo — Alessandro Rak
Horizons Extra
September 5 — Tim Fehlbaum
Vittoria — Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman
Le mohican (The Mohican) — Frédéric Farrucci
Al bahs an manfaz i khoroug al sayed Rambo (Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo) — Khaled Mansour
La storia del Frank e della Nina — Paola Randi
Shahed (The Witness) — Nader Saeivar
After Party — Vojtěch Strakatý
Edge of Night — Türker Süer
King Ivory — John Swab
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