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7:00 AM PDT 08/09/2018
by
Irena Medavoy
The season of rewards begins with the premieres of Damien Chazelle and Bradley Cooper, while the festival regular (and his wife, producer Mike) share the buzz of the carpet and the glamorous party scene of the city.
The story is our humanity and Venice does it with elegance, passion and decades of history – on arriving at the festival, I felt some of the glamor of the industry and an artistic fever, very Cinema Paradiso. Damien Chazelle First man was the perfect film to give the kickoff – with the ovation extended, one could feel that the price season had begun.
After the premiere, there was a small dinner at Harry's Bar where Damien and his wife, Olivia Hamilton, Claire Foy and Jason Clarke were honored with touching toasts from producer Wyck Godfrey and Peter Cramer.
The day before, the First man the performers and directors came together for a dinner on the beautifully renovated Gritti Palace terrace, where I lodged (outstanding food, all five stars, every detail was treated with Italian charm). La La Land full moon as a backdrop.
And earlier in the day, what happened on the main waterway between the Cipriani Hotel and the Gritti was indicative of mutual respect in this industry. The studios may be competing in theaters and on the price circuit, but it's a community of filmmakers, while Peter Cramer and his wife, Stacy, had the equivalent of an overheated engine in the universal water taxi, without engine. in the neutral waters of the canal, Fox Searchlight's ship came to the rescue and brought Universal back to Cipriani.
Thursday was The mountain, a competition film directed by Rick Alverson featuring Jeff Goldblum and Tye Sheridan. Jeff and his wife, Emilie, who is an Olympic athlete and has a better training plan than yoga or Pilates, celebrated with a dinner at Harry's, led by Yasmin Ghandehari (a Tate sponsor in London), with producer Keri Selig, director Keith Addis and Eve Gerber (who stopped after A star is born Prior mania; her husband, Billy, is the producer of the film). At another table, Spike Lee was screaming, "Hey, great Jeff!" During the festival, Harry looks like a private club. you go there and meet someone who is in town.
Friday, the weather is rainy, but nothing could hinder the world premiere of Bradley Cooper. A star is born (not even the screen getting dark in the middle of the movie because of a crush!). The most anticipated film of the festival had two big stars and a story that we all know but now directed Bradley – who also sang and played with Lady Gaga making his debut as an actress. Gaga arrived with Bradley and the beautiful Irina Shayk, and the scene was electric. After the burning of two stars that collided and made themselves vulnerable, dinner (in a private house opposite the Gritti) was moving. Billy Gerber said Bradley was the best he had worked with.
A director is born.
A star is born feels like the movie that wins the best picture. Leaving Venice, it was obvious that the film had reached the climax of the opening weekend.
Flying to Cannes to see Caroline Grainge being 30 years old twice, while her family surrounded her, turned the next part of my trip into the How to catch a thief version of life: karaoke made without shame with a birthday girl who watched 28 on a beach in the Riviera. Then in Paris for the Biennale of Art and Design, in the company of Yasmin, one of the best art collectors in the world, and see it through his eyes. After having lunch with Ambassador Jamie McCourt in honor of Mick Jones (Foreigner) and Ann Dexter Jones' first birthday from their remarriage. The Parisian hotels in the Plaza Athénée at the Ritz were full of fashion, life and laughter.
The countdown to my birthday marking WTF will be organized by 17 friends, including Ambassador Nicole Avant, Cheryl Saban and Jennifer Stallone at Avra Beverly Hills: Remembering Europe for centuries, not decades, is everything. that so interesting.
This story first appeared in the September 5 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe.
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