• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 874 1545
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

Stars return to Venice red carpet as film festival opens

September 2, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 1, 2021

By Silvia Aloisi

VENICE (Reuters) -Decked out in a black and white Chanel gown, Oscar-winning actress Penelope Cruz led the comeback of movie stars to the red carpet of the Venice film festival on its opening night on Wednesday, as cinema hopes to shake off the gloom of the coronavirus pandemic.

Unlike rival Cannes, the world’s oldest film festival did not skip the 2020 edition due to the health crisis but it is only this year that celebrities are returning in force to the Lido waterfront, in a show of support for an industry hammered by lockdowns.

Organisers are banking on a strict anti-COVID protocol to help keep the 11-day movie marathon trouble free.

Theatres are operating at half capacity and a wall blocks the view to the red carpet to stop crowds from gathering outside the main venue. Face masks and a health pass or a negative COVID test are required to attend screenings, and there will be fewer late-night parties.

“They are taking measures really seriously. Everyone is being really careful, really responsible. I think it’s great for the industry that things can start to come back,” Cruz told Reuters ahead of the opening ceremony.

“I am happy that it’s happening. It’s a celebration of cinema but it also gives jobs to a lot of people around the world.”

Cruz stars in “Parallel Mothers”, the festival’s opening film by Spanish director Pedro Almodovar. Hollywood stars Kirsten Dunst, Timothee Chalamet, Matt Dillon and Maggie Gyllenhaal are also among those who have made the trip to Venice so far.

“Everybody everywhere is eager to come back, to reopen, to restart, to release the films that stayed on the shelf for a year and a half or maybe two years,” festival director Alberto Barbera told Reuters.

He said most of the world premieres to be screened at the festival were already sold out, and promised that there would be no shortage of celebrities – even though fans will not be able to get anywhere near them.

“The red carpet will be one of the most crowded in years because everybody is here,” he said.

Titles vying for the Golden Lion award for best film include Jane Campion’s “The Power of the Dog”, with Benedict Cumberbatch as a ranch owner who torments a young widow played by Dunst, and Kristen Stewart’s turn as Princess Diana in “Spencer”.

Also in the main line-up is Gyllenhaal with her debut as director, of “The Lost Daughter”, based on an Elena Ferrante novel and starring Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson.

Ridley Scott’s medieval epic “The Last Duel” starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and Denis Villeneuve’s hotly anticipated science-fiction tale “Dune”, with Chalamet and Zendaya, will both screen out of competition.

The festival is a showcase for Oscar contenders as awards season approaches, and South Korean “Parasite” director Bong Joon-ho – who presides over the jury – said he was ready for a fight with fellow jury members to pick the award winners.

“As a film-maker I don’t believe cinema can be stopped so easily. COVID will pass, cinema will continue,” he said.

(Additional reporting by Hanna Rantala and Mike Davidson; Editing by Mark Porter, Alison Williams and Richard Chang)

Source Link Stars return to Venice red carpet as film festival opens

David Barret
David Barret

Related posts:

  1. Windows Server 2022 gets full general release
  2. MLB roundup: Dodgers take over NL West lead
  3. Airtel tests cloud gaming experience on 5G network
  4. Romania coalition at risk after junior party pulls support for PM

Filed Under: News

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

  • Orcas Filmed Kissing (With Tongues) In The Wild For The First Time
  • How Easy Is It For A Country To Change Its Time Zone?
  • Earth’s First Commercial Space Station Set To Launch In 2026
  • Black Hole Moon: Rogue Planets With Weird Signatures Could Be A Sign Of Advanced Alien Life
  • World’s Largest Ephemeral Lake Set To Turn Iconic Peachy Pink After Extreme Flooding
  • Stunning New JWST Observations Give Further Evidence That Dark Matter Is A Real Substance
  • How Big Is This Spider? Study Explains Why You Might Overestimate Their Size
  • Orcas Sometimes Give Humans Presents Of Food And We Don’t Know Why
  • New Approach For Interstellar Navigation Was Tested On A Spacecraft 9 Billion Kilometers Away
  • For Only The Second Recorded Time, Two Novae Are Visible With The Naked Eye At Once
  • Long-Lost Ancient Egyptian City Ruled By Cobra Goddess Discovered In Nile Delta
  • Much Maligned Norwegian Lemming Is One Of The Newest Mammal Species On Earth
  • Where Are The Real Geographical Centers Of All The Continents?
  • New Species Of South African Rain Frog Discovered, And It’s Absolutely Fuming About It
  • Love Cheese But Hate Nightmares? Bad News, It Looks Like The Two Really Are Related
  • Project Hail Mary Trailer First Look: What Would Happen If The Sun Got Darker?
  • Newly Discovered Cell Structure Might Hold Key To Understanding Devastating Genetic Disorders
  • What Is Kakeya’s Needle Problem, And Why Do We Want To Solve It?
  • “I Wasn’t Prepared For The Sheer Number Of Them”: Cave Of Mummified Never-Before-Seen Eyeless Invertebrates Amazes Scientists
  • Asteroid Day At 10: How The World Is More Prepared Than Ever To Face Celestial Threats
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 874 1545
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2025 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version