Alberto Barbera, artistic director of the Venice Film Festival: "There is a return to a cinema of reality"

Jay Kelly , by Noah Baumbach, with George Clooney and Adam Sandler, The Smashing Machine , by Benny Safdie, with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, A House of Dynamite , by Kathryn Bigelow, with Idris Elba, Father, Mother, Sister, Brother , by Jim Jarmusch, with Cate Blanchett and Adam Driver, Frankenstein , by Guillermo del Toro with Oscar Isaac, but also Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons in Bugonia, by Yorgos Lanthimos… This year again, the Americans, well helped by the relationship established by the Venice Festival with Netflix, occupy a place of choice in the selection expected on the Lido from August 27 to September 6, alongside the new films of Paolo Sorrentino or Park Chan-Wook. But the Mostra could especially be caught up in the troubled political context, as explained by its artistic director since 2011, Alberto Barbera. The Venice 4 Palestine collective of artists and journalists has called for stronger positions within the festival's institutions on the situation in Gaza.

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