Pablo Larraín, the only Latin American director to compete for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival

The Chilean director, Pablo Larraín (in charge of bringing to the big screen films such as “Jackie” and “Spencer”, inspired by the lives of the emblematic Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Lady Di or Diana Spencer respectively) is the only Latin American filmmaker who will compete for the Golden Lion at the Venice Festival, in its 80th edition that begins on August 30 and runs until September 9 in the Italian city. The filmmaker will present “The Count,” a vampiric political satire about dictator Augusto Pinochet, for Netflix. His film will be beaten with the selection of colleagues of the stature of the Americans Sofia Coppola, Michael Mann, Bradley Cooper and David Fincher, the Japanese Ryūsuke Hamaguchi and the Greek Yorgos Lanthimos. El conde”, the film by Pablo Larraín, the only Latin American director who will commit for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.However, it should be remembered that although it is not a nomination from Argentina, director Santiago Mitre (who comes from his Oscar nomination with “Argentina, 1985”) and Laura Citarella (winner of Best Latin American Competition Film at the Mar del Plata Film Festival) will be part of the jury (official and in the selection of First Films, respectively) of the prestigious festival. While the only Argentine film present at the Festival will be “El rapto”, by Daniela Goggi (who made the film adaptation of Cielo Latini’s novel, “Abzurdah” with China Suárez), present in the Orizzonti Extra section. Poor Things”, starring Emma Stone in her new work with Yorgos Lanthimos What films will the directors present? Sofia Coppola will premiere “Priscilla”, the biopic about Priscilla Presley and her bond with Elvis; David Fincher with “The Killer,” starring Michael Fassbender; while Michael Mann with another biographical “Ferrari”, with the performances of Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz, about the founder of automobiles. Along with them Bradley Cooper (whose debut is his remake of “A Star is Born”, with Lady Gaga) will present “Maestro”, starring him with Carey Muligan about the life of musician Leonard Bernstein.Two years after winning the Oscar for Best International Film for “Drive my car”, Japanese director Hamaguchi will also go for the official competition with “Evil Does Not Exist”. And for his part, Lanthimos (“The Favourite”) with “Poor Things”, starring Emma Stone, described in the synopsis as a “female Frankenstein”.* Full list- “The Promised Land”, by Nikolaj Arcel (Denmark, Germany, Sweden)
– “Dogman”, by Luc Besson (France)
– “Le Bête”, by Bertrand Bonello (France, Canada)
– “Hors-Saison”, by Stéphane Brizé (France)
– “Enea”, by Pietro Castellitto (Italy)
– “Maestro”, by Bradley Cooper (United States)
– “Priscilla”, by Sofia Coppola (United States, Italy)
– “Finally Dawn”, by Saverio Costanzo (Italy)
– “Lubo”, by Giorgio Diritti (Italy)
– “Origin”, by Ava DuVernay (United States)
– “The Killer”, by David Fincher (United States)
– “Memory”, by Michel Franco (Mexico, United States)
– “Io Capitano”, by Matteo Garrone (Italy, Belgium)
– “Evil Does Not Exist”, by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Japan)
– “The Green Border”, by Agnieszka Holland (Czech Republic, Poland, Belgium)
– “The Theory of Everything”, by Timm Kröger (Germany, Austria, Switzerland)
– “Poor Things”, by Yorgos Lanthimos (UK)
– “El Conde”, by Pablo Larrain (Chile)
– “Ferrari”, by Michael Mann (United States)
– “Adagio”, by Stefano Sollima (Italy)
– “Woman Of”, by Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert (Poland, Sweden)
– “Holly”, by Fien Torch (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France)”Comandante”, the film that will replace “Challengers”Although as we told you, “Challengers” (or “Defiant”, in its translation for Latin America) was going to be the opening film, it can not be. The film, the most recent by Italian Luca Guadagnino (“Call me by your name”, “Bones and all”) that features the starring performances of Zendaya (“Euphoria”, “Spider-Man: Homecoming”), Mike Faist (“West Side Story”), and Josh O’Connor (“The Crown”); will be replaced before its delay by the strike of screenwriters who manifest improvements in their working conditions in Hollywood.Instead, will be screened the film of the also Italian Edoardo de Angelis, “Commander”, starring Pierfrancesco Favino, about an Italian commander who after sinking an enemy ship in World War IIHe decided to rescue his crew.

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