Venice Film Festival 79th Edition Lineup Announced — ‘Bones and All’, ‘Blonde’, ‘Don’t Worry Darling’, and More
The full lineup for the upcoming edition of the Venice Film Festival was revealed today.
While there weren’t many surprises, we now know that it will feature the global debut of some of the season’s most anticipated movies, including Luca Guadagnino’s Bones and All, Ana de Armas’ Marilyn Monroe biopic Blonde, and Olivia Wilde’s Don’t Worry Darling, among many others. Coinciding with the release, MGM has released three brand-new pictures from Bones and All, as well as an official description for the movie.
The film is an adaptation of the Camille DeAngelis novel of the same name, and is described by the producers as “a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.” Guadagnino added:
“There is something about the disenfranchised, about people living on the margins of society that I am drawn toward and touched by. I love these characters. The heart of the movie is tender and affectionate towards them. I’m interested in their emotional journeys. I want to see where the possibilities lie for them, enmeshed within the impossibility they face. The movie is for me a meditation on who I am and how I can overcome what I feel, especially if it is something I cannot control in myself. And lastly, and most importantly, when will I be able to find myself in the gaze of the other?”
One of the new pictures is the header image, and here are the other two:
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- Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet in MGM’s Bones and All
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- Luca Guadagnino on the set of ‘Bones and All’
Check out the entire lineup of the Venice Film Festival here:
Films in competition
White Noise, directed by Noah Baumbach (U.S.) – Opening Film
Il Signore Delle Formiche, directed by Gianni Amelio (Italy)
The Whale, directed by Darren Aronofsky (U.S.)
L’Immensità, directed by Emanuele Crialese (Italy)
Saint Omer, directed by Alice Diop (France)
Blonde, directed by Andrew Dominik (U.S.)
TÁR, directed by Todd Field (U.S.)
Love Life, directed by Kôji Fukada (Japan, France)
Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Mexico)
Athena, directed by Romain Gavras (France)
Bones and All, directed by Luca Guadagnino (U.S.)
The Eternal Daughter, directed by Joanna Hogg (U.K.)
Beyond The Wall, directed by Vahid Jalilvand (Iran)
The Banshees of Inisherin, directed by Martin McDonagh (U.K., U.S.)
Argentina, 1985, directed by Santiago Mitre (Argentina, U.S.)
Chiara, directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli (Italy)
Monica, directed by Andrea Pallaoro (Italy)
No Bears, directed by Jafar Panahi (Iran)
All The Beauty and The Bloodshed, directed by Laura Poitras (U.S.)
A Couple, directed by Frederick Wiseman (U.S.)
The Son, directed by Florian Zeller (U.K.)
Our Ties, directed by Roschdy Zem (France)
Other People’s Children, directed by Rebecca Zlotowski (France)
Films out of competition (Fiction)
The Hanging Sun, directed by Francesco Carrozzini (Italy) – Closing Film
When The Waves Are Gone, directed by Lav Diaz (Philippines, France, Portugal, Denmark)
Living, directed by Oliver Hermanus (U.K.)
Dead For a Dollar, directed by Walter Hill (U.S.)
Call Of God, directed by Kim Ki-duk (Estonia, Kirighistan, Lettonia)
Dreamin’ Wild, directed by Bill Pohlad (U.S.)
Master Gardener, directed by Paul Schrader (U.S.)
Siccitá, directed by Paolo Virzì (Italy)
Pearl, directed by Ti West (U.S.)
Don’t Worry Darling, directed by Olivia Wilde (U.S.)
Films out of competition (Non-fiction)
Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom, directed by Evgeny Afineevsky (Ukraine, U.K., U.S.)
The Matchmaker, directed by Benedetta Argentieri (Italy)
Gli Ultimi Giorni Dell’Umanità, directed by Enrico Ghezzi, Alessandro Gagliardo (Italy)
A Compassionate Spy, directed by Steve James (U.S.)
Music For Black Pigeons, directed by Jørgen Leth, Andreas Koefoed (Denmark)
The Kiev Trial, directed by Sergei Loznitsa (The Netherlands, Ukraine)
In Viaggio, directed by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy)
Bobi Wine Ghetto President, directed by Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo (Uganda, U.K., U.S.)
Nuclear, directed by Oliver Stone (U.S.)
Series out of competition
The Kingdom Exodus (Episodes 1-5), by Lars Von Trier (Denmark)
Copenhagen Cowboy (Episodes 1-6), by Nicholas Winding Refn (Denmark)
Horizons
Note: This section of the Venice Film Festival is dedicated to promoting new trends in world cinema that wouldn’t necessarily get the spotlight anywhere else
Princess, directed by Roberto De Paolis (Italy) – Opening Film
Victim, directed by Michal Blasko (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany)
On The Fringe, directed by Juan Diego Botto (Spain)
Trenque Lauquen, directed by Laura Citarella (Argentina, Germany)
Vera, directed by Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel (Austria)
Innocence, directed by Guy Davidi (Denmark, Israel, Finland, Iceland) – Documentary
Blanquita, directed by Fernando Guzzoni (Chile, Mexico)
For My Country, directed by Rachid Hami (France, Taipei)
A Man, directed by Key Ishikawa (Japan)
Bread and Salt, directed by Damian Kocur (Poland)
Luxembourg, Luxembourg, directed by Antonio Lukich (Ukraine)
Ti Mangio il Cuore, directed by Pippo Mezzapesa (Italy)
To The North, directed by Mihai Mincan (Romania, France, Greece, Bulgaria, Czech Republic)
Autobiography, directed by Makbul Mubarak (France, Germany, Qatar)
The Sitting Duck, directed by Jean-Paul Salomé (France)
World War III, directed by Houman Seyiedi (Iran)
The Happiest Man in the World, directed by Teona Strugar Mitevska (Bosnia, Belgium, Denmark)
The Bride, directed by Sergio Trefaut (Portugal)
Horizons extra
Origin of Evil, directed by Sébastien Marnier
Hanging Gardens, directed by Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji
Amanda, directed by Carolina Cavalli
Red Shoes, directed by Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser
Nezouh, directed by Soudade Kaadan
Notte Fantasma, directed by Fulvio Risuleo
Without Her, directed by Arian Vazirdaftari
Valeria Is Getting Married, directed by Michael Vinik
Goliath, directed by Adilkhan Yerzhanov
The Venice Film Festival will take place between August 31 and September 10. Stay tuned for more updates on these titles, as some of them will be key players as we venture into the next Oscar season.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
