Venice Film Festival Opens with Jenna Ortega's Beetlejuice

The Venice Film Festival kicked off on Wednesday with a devilish screening of Tim Burton's Beetlejuice A wave of stars is set to compete in the glittering Lido on the sunny island. Lady Gaga, George Clooney, Daniel Craig, Julianne Moore and Brad Pitt are among the stars expected to descend on the Italian waterfront city over the next 10 days for the world's longest-running film festival, known as the Lido International Film Festival. No mostraThe return of Hollywood's big-budget glamour — after a muted edition last year due to the Hollywood writers' strike — was on full display Wednesday with the out-of-competition world premiere of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

The film once again stars Michael Keaton as the chaos-causing ogre, alongside Winona Ryder, Catherine O'Hara, Monica Bellucci and young star Jenna Ortega – who wore a red, backless gown to match the red carpet.

For Tim Burton, a noted fan of the weird and the terrifying, his latest afterlife fantasy was a project “from my heart.”

“In the last few years I've been a little bit disillusioned with the film industry,” Burton told reporters before the opening.

“For me, this movie was a recharge of my batteries, a kind of return to the things I love to do, the way I love to do them, the people I love to do them with,” he said.

Soul-sucking creature

with Beetlejuice BeetlejuiceTim Burton fans can revisit the crazy world of his 1988 classic 36 years later.

The bizarre family drama now centers on Lydia (Ryder), a TV host specializing in the paranormal, struggling to connect with her rebellious teenage daughter (Ortega), whose accidental discovery of a mystery in the attic unleashes chaos once again on the Dietz household.

The fantasy world of the second part includes demonic children, Soul Train The dead are transported to the afterlife to the tune of groovy 70s music, and a dingy basement waiting room where the newly departed await bureaucratic formalities.

The film also features a cameo from Monica Bellucci, who plays Delores, Beetlejuice's vengeful ex-wife, who brandishes a stapler in an unforgettable opening scene.

“She’s more than a monster, she’s a creature,” Monica Bellucci quipped. When a reporter asked if there might be another sequel to the disrespectful, annoying ogre, Burton joked: “Well, let’s figure it out.”

“It took 35 years (to make this sequel), and I'll be over 100 (to make the third one). I think it's possible – with medical science these days – but I don't think so.”

Callas and Joker

The opening ceremony on Wednesday saw Sigourney Weaver receive the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement, Space The star calls the honor “incentive jet fuel.”

The tone of the festival changes on Thursday, when all eyes turn to Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas in MariaPablo Larrain's “The Secret Life of the Golden Lion,” which tells the story of a tortured opera singer, is one of 21 films competing for the Golden Lion award, which will be awarded on September 7.

Dark psychological thriller is also among the things that many are waiting for. Joker: Madness of the Duoa sequel to American director Todd Phillips' 2019 Venice Film Festival-winning film, which is loosely based on DC Comics characters and set in a brutal Gotham City.

The film brings back actor Joaquin Phoenix, who won an Oscar for his portrayal of a failed clown who descends into mental illness, this time with Lady Gaga as his assistant and lover Harley Quinn.

James Bond movie stars Daniel Craig gay Directed by Italian Luca Guadagnino, it is based on William Burroughs' novel set in 1940s Mexico City, while Australian director Justin Kurzel's film The order The film stars Jude Law as an FBI agent investigating a white supremacist case in the Pacific Northwest.

Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar returns with his first English-language feature film, next room With Moore and Tilda Swinton, while Nicole Kidman co-stars with Antonio Banderas in the erotic thriller. little girl From Dutch director Halina Rein.

The list also includes American director Brady Corbett. The Savagewhich stars Adrien Brody as a Hungarian Jewish architect and a project that changes his life.

Two documentaries about the Ukraine war are being screened out of competition – Songs of the Slowly Burning Earth Among the films she starred in were Ukrainian director Olga Zorba and Russians at War, in which Russian-Canadian director Anastasia Trofimova starred with a Russian army battalion in eastern Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Swedish director Goran Hugo Olsson said his documentary, Israel and Palestine on Swedish Television 1958-1989His “most painful” film to date, based on thirty years of public broadcast archives, was a major success.

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