The Venice Film Festival is already drawing rave reviews even before it opens
The Venice Film Festival is just around the corner, so now is the perfect time to put together a shortlist of favourites to avoid getting lost in the sea of spoilers and posts.
We’ve narrowed down the list of all the films to the five most interesting ones to make your cinematic journey easier and more structured.
1. Primetime
Robert Pattinson has been successfully reinventing his acting repertoire for several years now: this time we see him in the role of Chris Hansen, the presenter of one of the most controversial programmes on American television, To Catch a Predator. In an already tense story about exposing sex offenders, the drama is heightened by the character’s personal backstory. It must be both fascinating and chilling to witness such a story based on real events.
2. Joie de Vivre …
A seven-hour documentary about Bernardo Bertolucci’s work may not sound like the most compelling project, but knowing how skilfully Luca Guadagnino films and captures the small yet picturesque details of life, one would like to believe that we won’t be able to tear our eyes away from the screen. A love letter to one of the most iconic directors
3. Bunker
Bunker — a story that seems to echo the recent Brutalist, but is more intimate and unsettling. The same architect is at the heart of the plot, the same tension caused by an eccentric oligarch, and the same tale of the clash between talent and wealth and impunity
4. INK
Although the title is somewhat abstract, it suggests that something used for writing can also become something that causes a mess. Another biographical film about the early career of Rupert Murdoch and The Sun newspaper
5.Woman Unknown
Woman Unknown is yet another psychological thriller set in post-war Denmark. A wealthy man wants to marry his child’s nanny, but at the ceremony she is obliged to wear his late wife’s dress. A chilling dénouement awaits us at the end, and so it goes in this intensely atmospheric film
