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| Nouvelle Vague Photo: Courtesy of San Sebastian Film Festival |
The section will open with Richard Linklater's black and white Nouvelle Vague, about the making of Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless and will close with Rebecca Zlotowski's A Private Life, starring Jodie Foster as a psychiatrist who investigates the death of one of her patients.
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| First still released from Paolo Sorrentino's La Grazia, which will open Venice Film Festival and play in competition Photo: Andrea Pirrello/MUBI |
It will have competed in Venice alongside Noah Baumbach's Jay Kelly, which stars George Clooney as a famous film star struggling with a personal crisis.Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Riley Keough, Eve Hewson, Greta Gerwig, Alba Rohrwacher and Emily Mortimer appear in support.
Other notable titles include Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia, which also competes in Venice, Cannes' Best Director winner The Secret Agent, directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho Prix SACD winner Sleepless City (Dir: Guillermo Galoe) and Directors' Fortnight winner The President's Cake, written and directed by Hasan Hadi.
As always, the section is packed with additional famous names, including festival regular François Ozon, who brings Albert Camus adaptation The Stranger, Hlynur Pálmason's year in the life of a family, The Love That Remains, Raoul Peck's documentary Orwell: 2+2=5, and Paolo Sorrentino's La Grazia, which is opening Venice. The section is rounded out by animation Little Amélie Or The Character Of Rain, the debut film from Maïlys Vallade and Liane-Cho Han and Kaouther Ben Hania's The Voice Of Hind Rajab.
The films will compete for the City of Donostia/San Sebastian Audience Award.
The 73rd edition of the festival runs from September 19 to 27.
