On Wednesday launched the Venice Film Festival in its 72nd edition. 21 films competing for the Golden Lion. Out of competition is the biopic “Queen of the Desert” by German director Werner Herzog with Nicole Kidman in the lead role. All info in the ticker.
- Film Festival in Venice from 2 to 12 September
- 21 films competing for the “Golden Lion”
- Two German co-productions in the race: “Francofonia” and “Remember”
- Opening with Jake Gyllenhaal and Keira Knightley in the mountaineering drama “Everest”
12.34 Clock: How does the Jury of the Biennale 2015th Among other things, the German actress Diane Kruger.
Thursday, 3 September 11.16 Clock: Director Werner Herzog loves Eccentrics, egomaniac, lone wolf. He portrays in his works people, situations, landscapes of extremes. And he does not want to separate from the fictive documentary. No wonder, then, that he is in his latest work “Queen of the Desert” the real person Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) dedicated.
That Briton who explored the remotest desert regions of the Middle East at the beginning of last century and is instrumental involvement in the borders after the First World War in the region.
Nicole Kidman makes this extraordinary woman, the like also female “Lawrence of Arabia” was called, this intrepid, intelligent Briton from a good family who is living in the home to domesticated. Her father asks her to send them to other countries. So it ends up in Tehran, where they initially estimated in the windy, gamblers embassy official Henry Cadogan ( James Franco ) in love.
In fact Bells provides life story a fantastic movie material, their insights and experiences as a wilderness explorer, ethnologist, adventuress and peacemaker. But Herzog focuses on amorous relationships, reveling in images and shuns neither pathos nor kitsch. That’s sometimes nice to look at, is in the long run but boring
Background:. The prices of the 72nd festival will be awarded on 12 September by an international jury. The Venice Film Festival is the oldest in the world and is one of the most important in the sector. The jury this year also born in Lower Saxony actress Diane Kruger (39, “Inglourious Basterds”) belong as well as the US-American woman Elizabeth Banks (41, “The Hunger Games”). 2015 attracts the 72nd Film Festival as part of the Biennale of Contemporary Art cineastes from 2 to 12 September at the lagoon city. Festival Director is the Italian film critic Alberto Barbera.
The “Exhibition of Film Art” was the first film festival in 1932 held at the hotel “Excelsior” terrace. Prices were at that time not yet awarded. In 1935 the festival became an annual event, but interrupted by the Second World War.
First Winners of Best Picture since 1949 Golden Lion was “Manon” by Henry Georges Clouzot. Additional winners included “Belle de jour” by Luis Buñuel (1967) and “The State of Things” by Wim Wenders (1982). 2014 was “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence” by Roy Andersson successfully. .
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