Madrid, 28 August (EFE). – Spaniard Juan Antonio Bayona will lead the Spanish presence at the 80th Venice Film Festival, to be held from 30 August to 9 September, and will present the closing film “The Snow Society”, which tells the story of the Andes of 1972 The story of the survivors of the plane crash.
Under the Netflix umbrella, the Bayonne film will be the first Spanish production to close the Venice competition, as confirmed last July by the director of “The Impossible” (2012) and “A Monster Comes to See Me” (2016). It wandered between the mountains of Granada, Chile and Uruguay.
Although there is no Spanish production in competition for the Golden Lion, Oscar winner Penelope Cruz is eyeing the Volpi Cup for best actress as she stars in “Ferrari,” a biographical film about Enzo Ferrari directed by Michael Mann. But the Madrid actress’s presence at Mostra is not guaranteed.
On the other hand, the intermittent and versatile Jordi Molla surprised with two films in this Mostra: an out-of-competition experimental project called “Agro Dr1ft”, directed by Harmony Korine and, Parallel Section In Horizontes Extra, “Pet Shop Days”, by Elm Schnabel.
“Agro Dr1ft” is the first project born from Edglurd, the studio created by Corin to produce video games and experimental films. Molla appears as the protagonist alongside American rapper Travis Scott.
The story follows a hitman searching for his next target in Miami’s sinister underworld, but according to Corinne, it’s not a movie but “what comes after a movie”, something “like a video game.” Which includes animation and artificial intelligence technology.
As for “Pet Shop Days,” it’s the debut of Julian Schnabel’s son, a romantic drama set in New York whose cast includes both Willem Dafoe and Peter Sarsgaard, as well as Molla and Maribel Verdu. Are.
Marina Alberti, granddaughter of poet Rafael Alberti and writer María Teresa León, will present the second most important section in Horizontes – the short “Aitana”, which focuses on the memory of her mother, embedded in the memory of the country and of an entire century.
And the tribute to Salvador Dali by eccentric French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux will also have a Spanish touch. The film “Daali”, with a cast led by Anais Demostier and Gilles Lellouche, revolves around the meeting between a journalist and an artist in Figueres (Girona) to film a documentary.
It will be out of competition, as well as the longer version of the documentary “Frente al Guernica” made by the Museo Reina Sofia to enrich the documentation of Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece on the 50th anniversary of his death.
In Jornadas de los Autores, a parallel and independent program of Mostra, the Basque Victor Uriarte will make his debut with “Especially the Night”, a thriller starring Lola Dueñas and Ana Torrent as a single mother on the way of three characters. see you. , a son and an adoptive mother.
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