Five years after “Joker” received the highest prize on the Venice Film Festival, filmmaker Todd Phillips is returning with the sequel. “Joker: Folie à Deux” will play in competitors with 20 different titles, competition organizers stated Tuesday.
The extremely anticipated follow-up to the blockbuster comedian guide movie stars Joaquin Phoenix because the mentally ailing Arthur Fleck and Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn.
The lineup for the 81st version of the competition, unveiled early Tuesday, additionally consists of new movies starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and Jude Law.
Among the movies taking part in alongside “Joker 2” in competitors are Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas movie “Maria,” starring Jolie; Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here”; the erotic thriller “Babygirl” starring Kidman and Harris Dickinson from filmmaker Halina Reijn; Luca Guadagnino’s William S. Burrough’s adaptation “Queer,” with Craig and Jason Schwartzman; and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language movie, “The Room Next Door,” starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. Set in New England, the filmmaker has stated it’s about an imperfect mom and a resentful daughter.
“The Order,” Justin Kurzel’s 80s-set crime thriller in regards to the white supremacist group starring Law as an FBI agent, Nicholas Hoult and Jurnee Smollett, will even be in competitors, as will Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” with Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones and Joe Alwyn. Shot on 70mm, the 215-minute epic is a couple of Hungarian Auschwitz survivor who goes to the United States.
Pitt and Clooney will reunite in Jon Watts’ “Wolfs,” an adrenaline packed action-comedy about a couple of fixers that can display screen out of competitors.
Several fascinating movies taking part in within the horizons further part embody “September 5,” in regards to the stay tv protection of the Munich Olympics, starring Peter Sarsgaard; John Swab’s “King Ivory,” with Ben Foster and James Badge Dale; and Alex Ross Perry’s movie about Stephen Malkmus’ California rock band Pavement.
Venice will even display screen Peter Weir’s 2003 epic “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World,” at the side of his lifetime achievement award.
Seven episodes of Alfonso Cuarón’s psychological thriller sequence “Disclaimer” will even premiere on the competition. The AppleTV+ present is predicated on a novel a couple of documentary journalist and a secret she’s been protecting. It stars Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline and can debut on the streamer in October.
Among the nonfiction titles taking part in out of competitors are Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ “One to One: John & Yoko,” which reconstructs the New York years of the Beatle and his spouse; Errol Morris’ “Separated,” in regards to the separation of immigrant youngsters from their mother and father within the U.S; Anastasia Trofimova’s “Russians at War”; Göran Hugo Olsson’s “Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989”; “Riefenstahl,” in regards to the German propagandist; And one other Beatles-focused doc, “The Things We Said Today,” a time capsule of their arrival in New York and first live performance at Shea Stadium.
Last yr’s competition befell amid the actors’ strike. Although some attended below interim agreements, like Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz for “Ferrari” and “Priscilla” stars Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi, the competition was missing its standard, constant provide of star energy. But its awards season affect remained robust: Seven Venice world premieres went on to get 24 Oscar nominations and 5 wins: Four for “Poor Things” and one for Wes Anderson’s “The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar.”
Venice is a major launching floor for awards hopefuls and the primary main cease of a busy fall movie competition season, with Toronto, Telluride and the New York Film Festivals shut behind.
The 81st version kicks off on August 28, with the world premiere of Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.” All of the principle forged, together with Michael Keaton, are anticipated to grace the purple carpet. The Venice Film Festival runs by way of Sept. 7.
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