Two stars of Hollywood, Angelina Jolie And Cate Blanchettilluminate the Beach of elegance and beauty and on red carpet there is the frenzy of the crowd and photographers.
The second day of the Venice Film Festivalafter yesterday’s opening night with the glamorous pomp of the couple in love Tim Burton And Monica Bellucciand with Jenna Ortega, Michael Keaton And Willem Dafoeprotagonists of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice And Sigourney Weaver Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievementsees the two actresses dominate the scene. The competition kicked off with Mary Of Pablo Larrain with Jolie in the shoes of Callas in the last days of life Paris and amused by the grotesque and disconcerting film by the Argentine Louis Ortega The Jockey about a drug-addicted jockey.
It was also the day of the miniseries event Leopards Directed by Sergio Rubini (in December on Rai). «A Leopardi without a hump, unpublished, a hymn to freedom for today’s youth». Increasingly important and authorial TV series that have brought to Venice Cate Blanchett For Disclaimer Of Alfonso Cuarón.
Among the documentaries Riefenstahl Of Andrés Veiela sort of spy story to nail the director of the Berlin Olympics to her responsibilities of collusion with Nazism, and Separated Of Errol Morrisdocumentary on the division of migrant families from Mexico to the United States wanted by Trump.
Angelina Jolie She posed on the red carpet bombarded by photographers wearing a dress beige voile with a short fur cape in the same color (a real torture given the sultry heat of these days), very thin, statuesque, with long honey hair and a bright red mouth. Without children in tow, while the ex-husband Brad Pitt will take the same steps for Wolfs with George Clooney Sunday 1st September. «I rediscovered the meaning of the word “diva” thanks to Maria Callas. What a diva is – he said Jolie – often depends on the perception of others, rather than on what you think or feel.”
In facing the challenge of interpreting Maria Callas for the film of Pablo Larrain (in theaters January 1st with 01), Angelina Jolie found a special bond: “many things in common, especially vulnerability.” Both under pressure from the media and with their privacy to defend with difficulty, protagonists of worlds that do not forgive, like when critics were merciless with Callas who was struggling to restore his unique voice plagued by dermatomyositis. For the film of Larrainthe actress learned to sing and to know opera from scratch, she who, she said, only heard «punk and Clash» : «I studied for seven months, I had to learn with discipline, dedication. The thing that made me nervous and worried me was passing the music exam, not disappointing the fans of the Callasmusic lovers who have always loved her, be up to the task.”
Larrainon the script of Steven Knightfocuses on the soprano’s last suffering days, overwhelmed by loneliness, aware of her wounds, very thin, dependent on the medicines that her sister (Valeria Golino) sends them secretly. There is the initial poverty, the subsequent luxuries and excesses, the controversial great love for the millionaire Aristotle Onassis who left her to marry the widow Kennedythe son who died as a newborn. «Ferruccio And Brown they are his guardian angels” they say Pierfrancesco Favino And Dawn Rohrwacher who play the butler and housekeeper who were at her service for 40 years. A colossal reconstruction that through settings, locations, costumes takes us back in time “to reveal the woman behind the myth”.
Cate Blanchettwearing a black dress with a wonderful off-the-shoulder neckline and pearl strings, is Catherine Ravenscroft in Disclaimer – The Perfect Lifea seven-part thriller series by the Mexican Cuaron (on Apple TV+ from October 11th), taken from the novel of the same name by Renee Knight. She plays a London journalist, specialized in revealing scandals, who finds herself the main character in a “scandalous” novel, of which she knows nothing about the author, in which her greatest secret is revealed. And of this her husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) will not be happy at all.
«I think we all have a dark side, something very private to hide, but this does not mean that we are dishonest, but only that we want to hide from others things that we have not yet processed. Catherine she is a woman who has buried some dramatic things in her life, buried a trauma that continues to exist in her body”. Everything takes place on different time planes in which we follow a wild Catherine young, but already with a child, dealing with an aspiring photographer, Jonathaneven too full of verve. From here a story all backwards in search of the journalist’s “original sin”. The cast also includes Kevin Gline And Kodi Smith McPhee.