The Venice Film Festival is the first to open since the pandemic began. Despite compulsory masks, socially distanced seating and fewer stars wandering around, the world's oldest film festival opens as usual – and may well give us an idea of what to expect from London Film Festival next month.
Director Chloé Zhao follows up her brilliantly slow and subtle The Rider with a road trip across nomad America. Frances McDormand plays Fern, a citizen in a rural Nevada town which endures economic collapse. She decides to abandon everything and live a nomadic life, exploring the American West.
The opening film of the festival has been compared – a lot – to Noah Baumbach’s recent divorce drama Marriage Story. And it’s easy to see why.
An Italian film from Daniele Luchetti, Lacci (The Ties) captures a marriage falling apart over decades – hopping between the 80s and the present day. Despite an early, devastating affair, the couple decide to stay married: held together by a dark secret. Alba Rohrwacher (My Brilliant Friend) stars.
Boasting an all-star cast with Vanessa Kirby (The Crown), Shia LaBeouf (Honey Boy), Sarah Snook (Succession), Jimmie Fails (The Last Black Man in San Francisco), and Benny Safdie (Good Time), this Boston-set family drama looks like a heavy but rewarding watch.
After losing their baby during the birth, a wife and husband grieve for their loss while bringing charges against a negligent midwife.
Following the filmmaking genes of the Coppola family, Gia Coppola – granddaughter to Francis, niece to Sofia – steps up with Mainstream.
Her film deals with social media and its effect on the psyche. Maya Hawke (Stranger Things) stars as Frankie, a 20-something bartender who craves meaning in her life. After running into the mysterious Link (Andrew Garfield), she enters the world of internet stardom.
Art heists become legends, and so prove ideal for movies. But in the fascinating case of Kempton Bunton, the apparent thief of Goya’s portrait of the Duke of Wellington, the gain was bizarre. He wanted £140,000 to be donated to charity; his motivation being anger at the government for making him pay the TV licence fee.
This new film from Notting Hill director Roger Michell tells Bunton's strange story, which only recently came to light. Stars Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren.
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