“Who are you waiting for?” early Monday afternoon The old American asked a group of teenagers on the street in front of the Sala Grande, the Venice Film Festival’s main theater in the Lido.
“Harry Style!” They were all chattering, purple umbrellas blocking the midday sun.
“Is he American?”
“English!” The girls said in unison.
“Can you sing one of his songs?”
Elena Bufalari, the oldest in
, Outbursts Styles’ hit “As It Was”.
“Ah, yes, I think I know his music,” the man said.
Six hours before premiere Don’t worry, dear, a stylish psychological thriller starring Styles, Florence Pugh and Olivia Wilde – the film’s director and Styles’ romantic partner – has a large group of teenage girls camping out on the street, who Thousands, waiting to catch a glimpse of pop music’s number one heartthrob. Elena and her – year old cousin Gaia got up at 5am and let Elena’s mother drove five hours from Marche’s home, in central Italy, to Venice. The girls were all wearing Harry Styles “Love On Tour” T-shirts, as was their Shinjuku camp friend Marta Franceschini years old, from Lucca. All three wore Converse All-Star high-tops. All three had seen Styles perform in Bologna in July.
And all three are “super excited” for Styles to follow his character back on screen in 767′ s Dunkirk
.
“I knew it was his dream,” Gaia said.
“I knew he’d do well,” Elena said. “Because he’s Harry Styles. “
If there were any doubts in the public’s mind that the pandemic was over, it was gone during this year’s Venice Film Festival. Since its opening in August , movie theaters are full, and despite announcements ahead of screenings strongly encouraging masks, almost no one is wearing them. Friday night Timothy Chalamet fans are obsessed with the first episode of Luca Guadagnino’s cannibal love story Movie
Bones and All
*——Yes, you read that right – very impressive, with hordes of masks – and fewer teens lining not only the barricades on the red carpet, but the bridge above the canal where his boat arrives , and in the hotel hallway where they thought he might be taking him to the theater. Their screams reached the volume of Beatle mania when he showed up in his scarlet Haider Ackermann halter top and leggings.
Every night in Lido and Venice there is a series of joys: crowded cocktail parties, flamboyant black tie dinners, disco balls. Gone are the “intimate gatherings” of the past two years in Venice, alternate seating in cinemas, fan walls, social distancing on the red carpet and the requirement to show a “green pass” for vaccinations.
For this year’s edition – 31 th- festive mood is not just pre-pandemic “normal”. It’s as exciting and exciting as a Styles concert. Everyone – fans, media, executives and stars – is wearing their best, brightest fashion. So much glitter! Glasses filled with prosecco or champagne. So much hissing! Bars, cafes and food stalls all play upbeat music. So much dancing!
Sadly, overall, the films shown here are depressing, and the atmosphere is festive. Judging by photos from opening night, Noah Baumbach’s White Noise
, to Wilde Don’t worry dear
, the theme seems to be an existential crisis – after two After years of the pandemic, this makes sense. COVID- Lockdown has given us time to think about our lives and our careers – the meaning of life, the human condition. It must be a cultural mistake if writers and directors don’t realize this and use it to their creative advantage.
But it makes the movie more heavy. Baumbach’s
White Noise
, based on Don DeLillo’s novel of the same name, set the tone for the festival: it tells the story of a group of articulate intellectuals who find themselves in marital crisis in an air-borne toxic incident. Then
Bardo
, Alejandro González Iñárritu’s three-hour surreal reflections on the life of an award-winning Mexican journalist who question his raison d’être – what journalist doesn’t? – and Todfield’s
Tár (, A fictional biopic about a groundbreaking female guru embroiled in the #MeToo scandal. The role is likely to earn Cate Blanchett her third Oscar — her performance is as masterful as the symphony she conducts — and the film ended its premiere with a six-minute standing ovation. But
Tal
is A two-and-a-half-hour film about an unpleasant woman who blew herself up. entertainment time. no.
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Guadagnino’s
Bones and all
not for squeamishness. Quite a few of the costumed premiere attendees looked down at their knees and plugged their ears in the cannibalistic scene. But if you can get through the horrific events, Chalamet and Tyler Russell’s romance of two young lost souls might win you over. Like the young woman next to me: she was sobbing when the lights came on.
Master Gardener
is the third in Paul Schrader’s trilogy about what he calls “The Lonely Man’s Room,” following last year’s of The Card Counter
and 630 of
First Reformed.
Its star Joel Joel Edgerton as Gardener, a former Proud Boys white supremacist, Quintessa Swindell as his biracial apprentice, conductor Sigourney Weaver as The racist aunt of this young woman and the owner of the southern plantation where they work. Weaver should also win some awards for her performance. Schrader, he in his 14-year career wrote the screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver ,
Angry Bull
and
The Last Temptation of Christ , and director over Movies, including
American Gigolo
, got the movie Saturday The Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Festival. The film is very much in line with this classic: in it , Schrader deftly uses gardening to explore racism and human conflict. But even he told
The Hollywood Reporter
Admittedly, it was “a nasty gumbo.”
Martin MacDonald’s Banshee Inisherin starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson The story begins as a delightful study of solitary life on a remote island off the coast of Ireland. Irish Civil War 77s – jokes between village mates will make you laugh like MacDonald In Bruges
, there are also these two actors. But the story quickly becomes as dark as a looming rain cloud off the coast as it makes sense of what true friendship means. Here’s what it actually is: The film gets the festival’s longest screening cheer to date – full minutes – and there’s a lot of talk about the Oscars about it.
whale, Darren Aronofsky’s play of the same name about a self-loathing fat man who tries to reconcile with his estranged daughter when he faces imminent death, gives Brendan Fraser stepped into his career after revealing that he was a victim of #MeToo, following a years-long hiatus. The premiere audience rewarded Fraser with a six-minute standing ovation, which brought him to tears.
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But none of this darkness, fear, self-hate or self-questioning dampened the excitement of Monday’s Harry Styles fans.
By 7pm showtime, the crowd had moved beyond the streets and sidewalks to the beach and the entire foyer of the theater. Phone cameras held high, screams rolled up the red carpet as Styles arrived in a pale blue Gucci suit.
“I’m so nervous,” panted one attendee at the party, which was packed full of people. “I hope I don’t faint.”
