2021 has been bringing back the early 2000's vibe in many ways one of which is Bennifer's reunion. The couple rekindled their love earlier this year and made this official on Instagram in July 2021 by sharing a picture of the two kissing, during JLo's birthday celebration. Now the couple, who were previously engaged from 2002 to 2004, have also made their red carpet debut at the Venice Film Festival on Friday (September 9). The two also posed for the camera and sealed it with a kiss. Lopez walked the red carpet in a Georges Hobeika white couture gown with a cascading slit, and Affleck was seen in a classic black and white tuxedo with a bow tie. The duo walked hand-in-hand for the premiere of Affleck's new film The Last Duel. The pictures of the two immediately went viral on social media. As much as fans have been excited for their reunion, fellow celebrities have also been showing support. Kim Kardashian West shared a picture of the couple from Venice on her …
Venice Film Festival Winners Announced – Live
Refresh for latest …: The Venice Film Festival concludes this evening with prizes including the Golden Lion about to be handed out inside the Lido’s Sala Grande. For the second year in a row, the world’s oldest film festival proved it would not let the pandemic cancel a physical event, and organizers put on a selection that was roundly praised by critics and audiences alike. (Scroll below for the winners list which is being updated live.) There were a few hiccups along the way with longer than usual security lines causing some delegates to be delayed at press screenings, and the ticket reservations system was glitchy for many. But the movies themselves comprised another fine crop from artistic director Alberto Barbera and the selection committee — both in and out of competition. There were standing ovations aplenty, including for the world premiere of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune , though the Warner Bros/Legendary sci-fi epic is not up for any prizes tonight. …
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The Venice Film Festival Carried Out 4,500 Covid Tests & Only Got 3 Positive Results
EXCLUSIVE : The Venice Film Festival , which wrapped last night, carried out 4,500 total Covid tests in 11 days, returning only three positive results, organizers have told us. That’s a reassuringly low number for such a large international event (with around 10,500 accredited guests), but testament to the festival’s solid protocols. By comparison, Cannes at one stage was averaging three positive cases per day, but it also carried out many more tests. At one stage Cannes festival chief Thierry Frémaux said the event carried out 3,000 tests in one day. As for the three positive results in Venice, organizers told us that those people were “entrusted to the health authorities and they will follow the appropriate sanitary protocols”. We are aware of at least one festival attendee who tested negative on departure from Italy but subsequently tested positive soon after arriving in their home country. Watch on Deadline The festival wrapped last night with French …
Venice Film Festival 2021: Penelope Cruz, Audrey Diwan’s The Happening Win Top Honours!
A young woman risks going to prison for seeking an abortion in the 1960s in France. Audrey Diwan's hard-hitting drama film The Happening , about illegal abortion, is the second French film to win a major festival this year since Julia Ducournau received the Palme D'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2021 for Titane in July. It was chosen from 21 contenders by a jury led by Parasite director Bong Joon-ho. The jury also included Chinese-born director and Oscar winner Chloe Zhao, who won the Golden Lion in 2020 with Nomadland . After scaling down last year due to COVID-19, the Venice Film Festival's glamour was back in 2021, albeit with necessary pandemic precautions which included mandatory masks, vaccine passes and maximum 50% capacity in the cinemas. Hollywood stars and the international crème de la crème of the movie scene walked the red carpet in Venice. Among the highlights was undoubtedly the appearance of Ben Affleck with his one-time girlfriend Jennifer Lopez …
‘Another World’ Clip: Vincent Lindon In Stéphane Brizé’s Work Vs Life Drama – Venice
EXCLUSIVE: French filmmaker Stéphane Brizé reteams with frequent collaborator Vincent Lindon for Another World (Un Autre Monde) , a Venice Film Festival competition entry that debuts today. Above is a clip from the drama that focuses on an executive, his wife and their family, at the point when his professional choices are about to overturn all their lives. Wild Bunch has international sales with CAA on North America. Lindon also starred in this year’s Palme d’Or winner out of Cannes, Titane . He previously won the Best Actor prize there for Brizé’s The Measure Of A Man in 2015, and this is their fifth film together. Another World sees Lindon as Philippe Lemesle, a man who no longer knows how to respond to the contradictory demands of his bosses — yesterday they wanted a manager, today an enforcer. Now, he and his wife (played by Sandrine Kiberlain) are separating, their love irretrievably damaged by pressures of work. And Philippe must decide what his …
Venice Review: Ridley Scott’s ‘The Last Duel’
Everyone has their own truth, as they say, but some of those truths are considerably truer than others. Old pals Matt Damon and Ben Affleck join forces with established indie filmmaker Nicole Holofcener to adapt a true story – that of Marguerite de Carrouges, a 14th century French noblewoman who was raped by an old friend of her husband’s – and tell it from three different angles in Ridley Scott ’s The Last Duel . A form inspired by the great Akira Kurosawa’s Rashomon , those angles express each person’s understanding – or wishful thinking – about the truth and its consequences. Jean de Carrouges (Damon), a fighting man wronged by someone he has long regarded as treacherous, learns his wife has been raped and seeks vengeance. The film’s first chapter, which has the familiar feel of a Saturday afternoon historical romance, belongs to him. Jacques le Gris ( Adam Driver ) a libertine and favored fixer and drinking partner to the local lord (Ben Affleck), is confounded to see …
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Venice Review: ‘The King Of Laughter’
The Great Beauty and The Hand Of God star Toni Servillo plays Neopolitan actor and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in The King Of Laughter ( Qui Rido Io ), Mario Martone ’s latest Venice Film Festival competition premiere. An affectionate, theatrical portrait set in the early 20th century, it culminates in an historic court case, but the build-up is leisurely to a fault. We first meet Scarpetta when he’s preparing to go on stage. It’s a place where he seems the happiest, if you discount the beds of various female family members. That pretty much sums up the characterization that takes over two hours to repeat. We see that Scarpetta craves the adulation and laughter of the audience, and is having affairs with both his wife’s sister and his wife’s niece. Everyone knows that the resulting children are his, but it’s barely spoken of: he’s known as “Uncle” to the kids. Some are keen to follow in his footsteps; others seem initially rebellious, but will relent. …
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Venice Review: ‘America Latina’
Anyone who has ever seen even a mildly scary movie knows that, when the choice is presented, you should never go down to the basement. That is probably doubly true for a basement built on a reclaimed marsh. Massimo, the debonair dentist whose increasingly tormented face is in almost every frame of buzzy Venice Film Festival competition entry, America Latina , is in bed with his wife when the bulb in their reading light goes. There are probably new bulbs in the basement, he says. Next morning, he finds time between fillings and bridge work to go down there. The sight that meets his eyes is so shocking that it is possible — albeit frustrating — to believe that he is incapable of responding in the way any of us imagines we would, that he might even go back upstairs, lock the door and mumble something to his strikingly young wife and teenage daughters about a burst pipe. That there might be a space of traumatized time — a few minutes, say — when he would do nothing. …
Venice Review: ‘Mama, I’m Home’
“Bodies are heavier after death, my pop told me.” So says a child at the beginning of Mama I’m Home , setting the scene for Vladimir Bitokov ’s compelling second feature which premiered in the Horizons section of the Venice Film Festival . This is Kabardino-Balkaria, a world where some children grow up to have a choice between unemployment, and fighting for a Russian private military contractor. Tonya (Kseniya Rappoport) has persuaded her son to take the latter option, but bitterly regrets it when she is told that he has been killed in action. Refusing to believe it, she storms into everywhere from army offices to police stations, demanding the truth. When the authorities realize that she won’t give up, a young man arrives at her home, claiming to be her long lost son, alive and well. But he’s a stranger to Tonya, and the conspiracy unfolds as she continues to battle for answers. It’s a fascinating premise; on the one hand an identity thriller that recalls …
Venice Review: Oleh Sentsov’s ‘Rhino’
A criminal seeks redemption in Oleh Sentsov ’s Rhino , showing in the Venice Film Festival ’s Horizons section. Played by newcomer Serhii Filimonov, Rhino is a delinquent in 1990s Ukraine who is easily drawn into the criminal underworld. His intimidatingly bulky stature makes him a natural fit for collecting money for loan sharks, among other violent acts. His love story with girlfriend Marina (Alina Zevakova) is initially a happy one, but when that goes sour, so does his life. Sentsov’s film is largely set in flashback, punctuated by a present day confessional between Rhino and a mysterious man in a car. This isn’t a spoon-fed narration, however: much of the action unfolds swiftly and alarmingly, without warning, much as it would in real life. There’s a flavor of classic mafia movies as Rhino is drawn deeper into the world of organized crime, but the specific setting sets this apart, earning it a place in the post-Soviet crime drama genre. From shoot-outs to …
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