Tag: Venice Film Festival 2010
Venice Film Festival 2010 Winners
Sofia Coppola‘s Somewhere won Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 2010.
Quentin Tarantino, this year’s head of the Jury said:
“This is a film that enchanted us from our first screening; yet, from that first enchanting screening it grew, and grew, and grew, in both our hearts and our analysis.”
Somewhere stars Stephen Dorff, Elle Fanning, Benicio Del Toro, Michelle Monaghan, Laura Chiatti, Simona Ventura among others.
Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff) is a bad-boy A-List actor stumbling through a life of excess while living at Hollywood’s legendary Chateau Marmont Hotel. His days are a haze of drinks, girls, fast cars and fawning fans.
Johnny has lost all sense of his true self. Until, that is, his 11-year-old daughter Cleo (Elle Fanning) unexpectedly shows up and unwittingly begins to anchor him. Johnny’s fragile connection to real life slowly revives in her presence…
The Silver Lion went to Spanish director Alex de la Iglesia‘s political tragicomedy The Last Circus (Balada triste de trompeta or A Sad Trumpet Ballad).
Potiche by Francois Ozon, Venice Film Festival 2010
Quite interesting title, and more than interesting story from director Francois Ozon.
That’s why we’re here today to talk about the movie titled Potiche, selected In Competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Check out the rest of this report to see why this project is already described as a “battle-of-the-sexes comedy”…
Potiche follows: “Sainte-Gudule, northern France, 1977: Suzanne is the submissive, housebound wife of wealthy industrialist Robert Pujol, who oversees his umbrella factory with an iron fist and is equally tyrannical with his children and “trophy wife.”
La Passione by Carlo Mazzacurati, Venice Film Festival 2010
Another title In Competition for Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival 2010.
Next project that we’re going to talk about is movie titled La Passione or if you prefer The Passion from Italian director Carlo Mazzacurati who was in charge for the script as well, together with Umberto Contarello, Doriana Leondeff and Marco Pettenello.
Check out the La Passione synopsis: “When you’re over fifty, it becomes increasingly difficult to be an up-and-coming director. Gianni Dubois knows this only too well. He hasn’t made a film for years, and now that he has the chance to direct a young TV star he can’t even think up an idea for a story.
Attenberg by Athina Rachel Tsangari, Venice Film Festival 2010
Attenberg is the latest project from Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari, and one of the movies selected In Competition at 67th Venice Film Festival.
Attenberg
“I made a film about four people who happen to be in the same place at the same time. Three people become four, then two. Three, of course, being the only perfect number in a relationship.”
That’s what Tsangari had to say about her project that goes like this:
“…born and raised in an abandoned mill town, uniformly built around a single high-rise apartment building, Marina has fallen in love with a failed architectural experiment and forgotten all about the people who were supposed to live in it.
La Pecora Nera by Ascanio Celestini, Venice Film Festival 2010
La pecora nera or if you prefer, The Black Sheep is the feature debut from Ascanio Celestini, which is In Competition for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
Yes, we said it’s a comedy, but they also describe it as an “inventive, funny and tragic” movie. Check out the La pecora nera synopsis and see why…
“The psychiatric hospital is an apartment block of saints. The poor crazy inmates tucked into their Chinese sheets – industrially manufactured shrouds – are saints, the nun lit up like an ex-voto by her bedside lamp is a saint.
And the doctor is the saintliest of all, he is the head of the saints, he is Jesus Christ.”
Happy Few by Antony Cordier, Venice Film Festival 2010
Happy Few, the second feature by French director Antony Cordier, is another movie that In Competition for The Golden Lion at this year’s Venice International Film Festival.
The movie explores the motivating forces behind an adult love affair in which two couples meet and fall in love, lose sight of each other in the confusion and end up pulling through.
Happy Few is a movie that poses the old chestnut about whether or not it’s possible to love two people at once.
It follows “…two couples who meet, hit it off and soon they swap partners in an ongoing spouse-sharing arrangement – without establishing any ground rules.
Silent Souls by Aleksei Fedorchenko, Venice Film Festival 2010
Ovsyanki or Silent Souls, another title In Competition for Golden Lion statue at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
This time, we’re here to present you a movie that comes from a Russian director Aleksei Fedorchenko that is already being described as “melancholy drama relates the journey of a man and his companion, who travel to a river with the remains of his companion’s late wife.”
Here’s the Silent Souls synopsis: “After a man’s young wife dies suddenly (the cause is never disclosed) he enlists the help of a colleague in disposing of the body in accordance with the local custom.
The characters here are Meryar, descendants of a 400-year-old Finnish tribe once native to that part of western Russia, but now all but forgotten. They have different and non-traditional names for places and people, but most strikingly different are their rituals to do with marriage and death and the expression of grief.”
Venus Noire by Abdel Kechiche, Venice Film Festival 2010
As you already guess, we’re here to continue with the movies that In Competition for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
Venus Noire, or if you prefer Black Venus is an upcoming French drama directed by Abdel Kechiche, and we’re here to introduce you to the movie based on the life of Sarah Baartman, a Khoikhoi girl who in the early 19th century was exhibited in Europe under the name “Hottentot Venus.”
Check out the Venus Noire synopsis: “Paris, 1817: inside the Royal Academy of Medicine. “I have never seen a human head more similar to that of an ape’s.”
Norwegian Wood by Tran Anh Hung
Norwegian Wood from award-winning director Tran Anh Hung is the adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s novel about Japanese students in the 1960s experiencing love and loss, and one of the titles selected In Competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
There are already some reports describing this movie as “a passionate story of nostalgia, loss and awakening sexuality”, check out the rest of this report to see why…
Norwegian Wood follows “…childhood friends Watanabe and Naoko reunited in Tokyo in 1969 when they meet by chance at a museum. Their friendship is rekindled, but they are both haunted by a shared tragedy that they would prefer remain shrouded in distant memory. As their affections for each other begin to grow, so too does the spectre of the past.
