The first of five Italian films
competing for an award at the 81st edition of the Venice Film
Festival is debuting on Saturday – Gianni Amelio’s Campo di
Battaglia (Battlefield), set during World War One.
“It’s not a war movie, which often becomes an adventure at the
cinema, but a film on war”, said the director.
“It is an extremely emotional film where the three protagonists
experience a very strong story”, added D’Amelio of the movie,
starring Alessandro Borghi, Gabriel Montesi and Federica
Rosellini.
Films in competition making their Venice debut on Saturday
include The Order by Justin Kurzel, with Jude Law and Nicholas
Hoult, inspired by the true story of criminal actions carried
out in the US by a white suprematist group created by Robert Jay
Mathews in the 1980s; social drama Leurs Enfants Après Eux by
French siblings Zoran and Ludovic Boukherma, based on a novel by
Nicolas Mathieu, which won the 2018 Goncourt Prize.
Meanwhile films Out of Competition include Amos Gitai in Why War
– a story focusing on correspondence between Albert Einstein and
Sigmund Freud on the roots of war and the possible explanation
behind the cruelty of conflicts.
Meanwhile on Friday night, Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson
starred in Venice at the premiere of Halina Reijn’s kinky
Babygirl in which Kidman plays a high-powered CEO who has a
secret affair with her intern (Dickinson).
Babygirl fired up the Venice audience with the public erupting
into a standing ovation as the end credits rolled on the film at
the Sala Grande Theatre.
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