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Penélope Cruz and Ana de Armas, Spanish stars at the Venice Film Festival


Penelope Cruz and Ana de Armas, in a file image. / CR

The Madrid actress will present the Italian film ‘La immensidad’ and the Spanish-Cuban actress gets into the skin of Marilyn Monroe in ‘Blonde’

Alvaro Soto

Penélope Cruz will be one of the stars that will parade through the island of Lido at the Venice Mostra, which will be held between August 31 and September 10 and will commemorate the 90th anniversary of its first edition. The actress from Madrid will present her new film, the Italian ‘La immensidad’, directed by Emanuele Crialese, which will fight for the Golden Lion along with 22 other feature films.

Among the most outstanding, ‘Bardo (o false chronicle of a few truths)’, the return of the Mexican Alejandro González Iñárritu to directing six years after ‘El renacido’, with which he won his second Oscar for best direction after the achieved by ‘Birdman’. Iñárritu’s new film is a comedy starring Daniel Giménez Cacho and Griselda Siciliani.

One of the most anticipated films will be ‘Blonde’, by Andew Dominik, a ‘biopic’ of Marilyn Monroe with the Spanish-Cuban actress Ana de Armas in the role of the legendary actress.

Darren Aronofsky (‘The Fighter’, ‘Black Swan’) will also be in the section with ‘The Whale’, his new feature film, based on a play, after a five-year drought, and Argentinean Santiago Mitre, with ‘ Argentina, 1985, which recreates the historical ruling against the first three military junta of the dictatorship (1976-1983).

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As in all festivals, the presence of platforms continues to gain strength at the Mostra. The festival will open with ‘Noise in the background’, by Noah Baumbach (‘Frances Ha’, ‘Marriage Story’), which takes the plot of a novel by the American writer Don DeLillo. The film stars Julianne Moore, who will share the spotlight in Venice with Australian Cate Blanchett, who plays an orchestra conductor in Todd Field’s Tár’. Among the male actors, Colin Farrell stands out with ‘The banshees of Inisherin’, by Martin McDonagh.

Among the most committed cinema that will pass through Venice is ‘Bears do not exist’, by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who will participate “in absentia” because he is serving a six-year prison sentence for “propaganda against the Iranian regime”, according to Alberto. Barbera, director of the festival since 2011. “It is said that festivals are windows open to the world and perhaps it is an image that is abused, but it is true that from that window we witness things that we do not like,” said Barbera during the presentation of the tapes.

The Italian ‘The Lord of the Ants’, by Gianni Amelio; the French ‘San Omer’, by Alice Diop; the Japanese ‘he loves life’, by Kôji Fukada; the British ‘The son’, by Florian Zeller; or the Iranian ‘Beyond the wall’, by Vahid Jalilvand, will be some of the other films that will participate in the Mostra.


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