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The Venice Film Festival arrives this year at its 75th edition and announces this week the 21 films that will be in the running for León de Oro, last of the Mexican Alfonso Cuarón and Carlos Reygadas and Argentinian Gonzalo Tobal, while Pablo Trapero presented his new work out of competition.
The director of the Mostra, Alberto Barbera, unveiled in Rome the films that will be exhibited on August 29 to September 8 in the Venetian Lido and surprised the presence of two films on the former president of the city. Uruguay José Mujica .
On the one hand, the Uruguayan Alvaro Brechner will compete in the Horizons section, dedicated to the new expressive currents, with "The Night of the 12 Years" the time that Mujica spent in prison with other leaders of the National Liberation Movement-Tupamaros.
Mujica ica, who was President of Uruguay between 2010 and 2015, will be interpreted by the Spanish Antonio de la Torre and will complete the distribution by the l 39; Argentine Chino Darín as the writer Mauricio Rosencof, and the Uruguayan Alfonso Tort, as Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro, guerrillas confined during the dictatorship
Mujica will also be the star of the documentary "El Pepe, una vida suprema" by Emir Kusturica, presented out of competition.
Barbera unveiled, on the other hand, the establishment of the 21 films of the Official Section, which represents a "rich and curious" edition in which, augured, you will enjoy "many genre films and "In addition to seeing many
Among these are three Latin American bets: the expected " Rome ", Cuarón which has already crossed the Lido in 2013 with" Gravity ", in addition to" Our time "from his com the patriot Carlos Reygadas and" Acusada ", from Argentine Gonzalo Tobal.
A special mention deserves the western, for which the Coen brothers, Ethan and Joe bet, with his miniseries Netflix "The Ballade Buster Scruggs" and the French Jacques Audiard, who will arrive with "The Sisters Brothers", with Joaquin Phoenix.
He will open the show "First Man" by Damien Chazelle, with Ryan Gosling as astronaut Neil Armstrong and Italian Luca Guadagnino will present "Suspiria", an adaptation of the clbadic d & # Horror of Dario Argento, with Dakota Johnson at the head of the poster
Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes will enter the historical genre with "Sunset", placed in the Budapest of 1913, and the Greek Yorgos Lanthimos, who will compete with "The Favorite", with Emma Stone and Rachel Weisz in Machiavellian England of the 18th century.
And will also review the story of the brio excited Mike Leigh with his "Peterloo", reminiscent of the bloodbath caused by the police in Manchester in 1819 to dispel a protest of work.
The British Paul Greengrbad will be remembered with his "July 22" mbadacre of 69 young people from the Norwegian island of Utoya and Australian Jennifer Kent, the only woman in the main competition, will present " The Nightingale ", in a colonial prison of their country.
American Rick Averson will propose "The Mountain"; the French Olivier Assayas "Doubles lives"; the American Brady Corbet "Vox Lux" and the Japanese Shinya Tsujamoto "Zan".
The German Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck will compete with "Werk ohne author"; the Italian Mario Martone with "Capri-Revolution", Roberto Minervini with "What are you going to do when the world is on fire", the French David Oelhoffen "Brother Enemies" and the American Julian Schnabel with "A "Eternity", on Vincent van Gogh
These films are to be examined by an international jury presided over by Guillermo del Toro and composed of a series of film personalities who only transcended the name of the Italian director Paolo Genovese at the moment.
In the Horizons section, in addition to the Uruguayan Brechner, the Argentine Tomás Posse will compete with his short film "Los Bastardos".
Venice will also present a series of films signed by Argentines outside the competition: the last of Pablo Trapero, former known of the competition, who returns with "La Quietud"; "My masterpiece", by Gastón Duprat, and the documentary "Introduzione all" oscuro "by Gastón Solnicki
As a special event, the last film of Orson Welles," L & # 39, other side of the wind ", will be projected. to ride after his death, as well as "A Star is Born" by Bradley Cooper and performed by singer Lady Gaga.
Barbera argued that the festival has extended its borders and this year has titles of countries like Indonesia, Syria or Kazakhstan, particularly present in Horizons
The presentation of the Mostra, the 39, One of the most prestigious film competitions in the world, has been experienced as a party since it's three quarters of a century old.
After years of closure, the historic hotel of the Lido del Lido will be reopened, where Luchino Visconti shot one of his most famous works, "Dead to Venezia" (1971), and will host this year a photographic exhibition on the long life of the EFE festival
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