The 2024 Venice Film Festival kicked off August 28 with the long-awaited Tim Burton-Michael Keaton sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opening the 81th edition, which runs by way of September 7 on the Lido. Deadline is on the bottom to look at all the important thing movies.
The lineup for the world’s oldest fest additionally consists of world premieres of Todd Phillips’ Joaquin Phoenix-Lady Gaga pic Joker: Folie à Deux, Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, Pablo Larrain’s Maria Callas biopic Maria starring Angelina Jolie and new works from the likes of Alfonso Cuarón, Walter Salles, Harmony Korine, Thomas Vinterberg, Brady Corbet, Takeshi Kitano, Claude Lelouch, Errol Morris and others.
Below is a compilation of our critiques from the fest, which final 12 months awarded its Golden Lion for best film to Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things, starring Emma Stone, who went on the win the Best Actress Oscar. Isabelle Huppert heads the competition jury this 12 months.
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’
Warner Bros./Everett Collection
Section: Out of Competition
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Arthur Conti
Deadline’s takeaway: Michael Keaton is again because the compellingly horrible undead star, however it’s not a lot a sequel — serving up extra of the identical — as a kooky, spooky college reunion the place you discover out what occurred to the category weirdo. It’s additionally humorous, all of the time, and a blast to look at.
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Kill the Jockey
‘Kill the Jockey’
Rei Pictures
Section: Competition
Director: Luis Ortega
Cast: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Úrsula Corberó, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mariana Di Girolamo, Daniel Fanego, Osmar Núñez, Luis Ziembrowski
Deadline’s takeaway: A subdued but unusual piece of labor, it begins out like a deadpan Wes Anderson spoof of a Stanley Kubrick gangster movie and slowly mutates. Although it has panache and elegance, Kill the Jockey wants a fairly extra substantial narrative to get it, and us, to the end line.
Maria
‘Maria’
Netflix
Section: Competition
Director: Pablo Larraín
Cast: Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Stephen Ashfield, Valeria Golino
Deadline’s takeaway: Somehow the portrait the movie attracts is curiously cold. Maria Callas the lady stays distant and unknowable; crafty to the top, she eludes us. Maria tells an interesting story, however it lacks that rasping edge.
Separated
‘Separated’
NBC News Studios/Participant/Fourth Floor/Moxie Pictures.
Section: Out of Competition (Non-Fiction)
Director: Errol Morris
Deadline’s takeaway: For those that have forgotten what that the Trump administration’s child-separation coverage seemed like, Morris arrives to remind us with an incisive account of the way it was devised and carried out, and for what function.
September 5
‘September 5’
Republic Pictures
Section: Horizon Extra
Director: Tim Fehlbaum
Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch, Corey Johnson, Georgina Rich
Deadline’s takeaway: Taking a narrative that’s now 52 years previous and making it not simply related however newly inspiring is not any small feat. The performing throughout the board is excellent, and September 5 succeeds on each degree.
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