Pedro Almodovar, Pablo Larrain, Luca Guadagnino and more return to the 2024 Venice Film Festival

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Facing them will be Joker: Folie à Deux or Their Children After Them.

The 81st edition of Venice Film Festival will take place from September 28 to 7, 2024, and as planned, it will open to the sound of Harry Belafonte with the out-of-competition screening of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Michael Keaton, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega, Winona Ryder, Willem Dafoe and Catherine O'Hara are expected in their finest striped costumes for the occasion. A crazy and gothic atmosphere is guaranteed with this sequel to Tim Burton's cult comedy. The director is making his big comeback after receiving the Golden Lion for his entire body of work in 2007. Succeeding him this year, the actress from Alien, Avatar And Gorillas in the MistSigourney Weaver.

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice will not be the only big-budget production at this festival. Joining the competition is Gotham's most smiling villain, the Joker (Joaquin Phoenix), and his partner in crime, Harley Quinn (Lady Gaga) with Joker: Madness for Two. In 2019, its predecessor, also directed by Todd Philipps, had hit the mark, leaving with an eight-minute standing ovation and the Golden Lion. Will this sequel be able to seduce the jurors?

Among the 21 feature films selected in competition, three filmmakers are making their comeback. Absent from the festivities last year after Challengers was replaced by Order by Eduardo De Angelis, Luca Guadagnigno comes back with Queer – a romance which, as the title indicates, will be LGBTQ+ and will feature Daniel Craig.

After winning the award for best screenplay last year for The count – a strange fiction in which the Chilean dictator Pinochet was a vampire, Pablo Larrain is back in competition with the highly anticipated Maria. Angelina Jolie plays opera singer Maria Callas. Opposite him will be Pedro Almodavar, also a regular at the festival, with The Room Next Door. Tilda Swinton is back under his direction and gives the reply to Julianne Moore. The director had not returned since Parallel mothers presented in 2021.

France is not far behind in the competition! Representing France, Three Friends, Playing with Fire And Their children after them by the Boukherma brothers (with Paul Kircher, Angelina Woreth, Ludivine Sagnier, Sayyid El Alami and Gilles Lellouche). Out of competition, will also be screened Eventually by Claude Lelouch.

The juries will include Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi, Guiseppe Tornatore, Abderrahmane Sissako, Kleber Mendonça Fihlo, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland – whose latest feature film Green Border had received the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival and James Gray. All of this, chaired by actress Isabelle Huppert. Their mission will be to decide between the films in competition and to present the trophies at the end of the festival.

Here is the complete selection of the Venice Film Festival 2024.

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