Streamer brings 3 star movies to the festival

In the midst of a sea of ​​A -Loors at the this year’s Venice Film Festival – the 82nd edition promises to be the most interesting talent parade on the Lido in recent memory – Netflix will be on the stage in a major way because the main leaders of the Streamer will rub the elbows of the festival presepists.

The Hollywood Reporter learned that the CO-PDG Ted Sarandos, the content director Bela Bajaria, president of the film Dan Lin and Guru Lisa Taback and his team members will be present this week while Netflix presents his most robust Venice slate.

With three selections of competitions (highly anticipated), Netflix is ​​responsible for the infusion of a healthy dose of these cinema stars aforementioned at the festival graceful of Guillermo del Toro Frankenstein With Jacob Elardi, Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth and Christoph Waltz, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly With George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup and Emily Mortimer, and Kathryn Bigelow’s A dynamite house With Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Anthony Ramos and Jared Harris.

Netflix’s beginnings in Venice also signal the confidence of streamer in films at an important time in the race for the price season, because the festival has long been a privileged launch ramp for titles that tend to do well in the months preceding the Oscars. The projection also occurs a year after the streamer hung on the most Oscar nominations for any film in the race last year as a Emilia Pérez I picked up 13, a record for non -English -speaking films. To celebrate, the Jay Kelly The team huddled for a private dinner on Wednesday, while Del Toro and his Frankenstein The stars are expected during a Saturday cocktail. (Clooney, however, had to miss the dinner and interrupt his press calendar to the press while he fell ill on Wednesday.)

In an interview The Hollywood ReporterAlberto Barbera, the director of the Venice Film film, even praised the quality of Netflix offers this year. “They could not come last year because they had no films to offer, but they have three very strong films this year, from Kathryn Bigelow, Noah Baumbach and Guillermo de Toro,” said Barbera. “We fear that it is a good idea to have three Netflix films in the main competition, but they are all so good, they all deserve to be in it.”

Baumach Jay Kelly Will be the first to leave the door with a world first scheduled for Thursday evening. Clooney (with his wife Amal), Sandler and Dern were all spotted on the Lido already before the big night. Baumbach is also there, with his agent, his partner Uta Jeremy Barber, who also represents the partner of the filmmaker of Baumbach and frequent Greta Gerwig collaborator. She has a role in Jay Kelly And could attend. By coincidence, Gerwig is currently at work The Chronicles of Narnia Adaptation, also for Netflix, so everything is in the family.

Jay Kelly Clooney Clooney as a famous film actor who is on a swirling journey and unexpectedly through Europe with his dedicated manager, Ron, played by Sandler. Here is how Baumbach describes the film in the declaration of its official director: “Jay Kelly Speaks of a man who looks at his life and reflects on choices, sacrifices, successes, the errors he made. When is it too late to change the course of our lives? Jay Kelly is an actor, and as such, the film talks about identity. How can we do it? Who are we as relatives, children, friends, professionals? Are we good? Are we bad? What is the gap between who we decided that we are and who could we really be? What makes a life? Jay Kelly This is what it means to be yourself.

Saturday brings the world premiere of FrankensteinAn adaptation of the classic tale of Mary Shelley by Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but selfish scientist who gives life to a creature in an experience which ultimately leads to the loss of the Creator and his tragic creation. “This film concludes a quest that started at the age of 7, when I saw James Whale Frankenstein Films for the first time. I felt the shaking of recognition in this fundamental moment: the Gothic horror became my church, and Boris Karloff Mon Messie, “explained Del Toro in the declaration of its director.

Bigelow and her Dynamite House The crew will not arrive until next week, before the world first of the film on Tuesday September 2. His film tells the story of what is happening when only one unrelated missile is launched in the United States, forcing a race to determine who is responsible and how to respond. “Several nations have enough nuclear weapons to put an end to civilization in a few minutes. And yet, there is a kind of collective numbness – a silent normalization of the unthinkable. How can we call this “defense” when the inevitable result is total destruction? ” Bigelow request in his festival declaration. “I wanted to make a film that confronts this paradox – to explore the madness of a world that lives under the constant shadow of annihilation, but rarely talks about it.”