Venice .- The blockbuster 3D Everest opened the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival yesterday, the festival of the world’s oldest film struggling to not lose its rank among the big.
The protagonists, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke and Emily Watson were the first to set foot on the red carpet under the sunshine overlooking the legendary Lido.
The film is a “metaphorical journey that seeks to understand what we are and how we relate to nature, “said the Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur, who said that none of the actors was in danger during filming, filmed in part in the Italian Dolomites in very difficult conditions, temperature -30 degrees C . “He went bad, but not put them in danger,” he admitted.
While opening this year was more discreet, the director of the Mostra, Alberto Barbera, hopes that this issue will serve to Everest have the same success reaching Gravity , two years ago and Birdman , last year, both won several oscare after competing at Venice.
It seems that the Mostra will not have so many Hollywood stars especially after it was canceled the screening of the short film by Martin Scorsese The audition , with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, divas expected on the Lido.
For the first time, the competition will open with Beasts of No Nation , a film produced by Netflix will premiere on October 16 worldwide.
Written and directed by Emmy Award winner, Cary Fukunaga ( True Detective ), Beasts of No Nation , it addresses a real issue, that of child soldiers in Africa through the story of Agu, who lost his family in a civil war and mercenary ends.
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True to tradition, Venice has numerous unknown debutantes films. Many of them compete with works based on real events, for a more educated public. Of the 21 films competing for the Golden Lion, 16 are made by directors who participate for the first time in Venice, a real courage for a festival that every year is facing criticism and selects films that fail to reach the market.
On Friday Johnny Deep parade to present Black mass , out of competition, while his new wife, Amber Heard exmodela will present The danish girl on the first sex change operations performed in the 1920s.
The Horizons section began yesterday with A thousand-headed monster , the tape Rodrigo Pla that starts with images of a desperate woman because her husband’s grave and the insurer refuses to give you the medicine you need. The dilemma that puts the director of the protagonist, who does not hesitate to use force to get the drug, he was greeted with applause.
Alberto Barbera, director of the Mostra, announced on Saturday midnight the festival will pay tribute to the late Wes Craven with a special screening of A Nightmare on Elm Street , one of his most iconic films.
On the red carpet paraded yesterday also Stars Everest (Gyllenhaal, Watson and Clarke), actress Diane Kruger, who wore a white dress with layer and the Spanish Paz Vega, who also chose a white dress with halter neck appliques.
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