This yr’s Venice Movie Pageant will open with Paolo Sorrentino‘s La Grazia.
Because the Oscar-winning director reteams with Toni Servillo, the opening evening movie — which interprets to “Grace” in English — will get its world premiere in competitors on the lido on Wednesday, Aug. 27. Whereas plot particulars stay unknown, Diamonds actor Anna Ferzetti may also star.
“I’m very pleased that the 82nd Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant will open with the brand new and extremely anticipated movie by Paolo Sorrentino,” mentioned fest director Alberto Barbera.
“I wish to recall that one of the essential and internationally acclaimed Italian auteurs made his debut proper right here on the Biennale di Venezia in 2001 along with his first movie, One Man Up, in my early years because the inventive director.”
He continued: “The connection with the Venice Movie Pageant turned consolidated through the years with the presentation out of competitors of the primary episodes within the sequence The Younger Pope (seasons one and two) and, above all, with The Hand of God which, in 2021, received the Silver Lion-Grand Jury Prize.”
“Paolo Sorrentino’s return in competitors comes with a movie destined to go away its mark for its nice originality and highly effective relevance to the current time,” he added, “which the audiences of the Venice Movie Pageant may have the pleasure of discovering on opening evening.”
La Grazia, written and directed by Sorrentino, is a Fremantle movie produced by The Condo, a Fremantle Firm, by Numero 10 and by PiperFilm that can distribute it in Italy.
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