The truth is that festivals are not an absolute priority for all producers, which means that some films simply don’t show up anywhere, or only at smaller festivals that are considered useful for distribution reasons.” There is no need to hide the fact it is getting more and more difficult, but it is the same for everyone.
“I am pretty excited about the lineup,” he says. Its opening film is the British-produced mountaineering thriller Everest, featuring Anglo-American glamour in the shape of Jake Gyllenhaal, Keira Knightley and Josh Brolin its competition strand has an impressive list of international auteurs, including Tom Hooper (The Danish Girl), Alexander Sokurov (Francofonia), Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash) and Charlie Kaufman (Anomalisa) and a number of authentic coups, including the world premiere screening of Black Mass, the much-hyped gangster film featuring Johnny Depp as James “Whitey” Bulger, and a first look at Beasts of No Nation, the African-set war thriller that represents Netflix’s most serious shot yet across Hollywood’s bows.Īlberto Barbera, the festival director, and the man primarily responsible for securing the festival programme, is quietly confident. As it gears up for its 11-day extravaganza on the Lido, the long, narrow island to the south-east of the ancient city of Venice, the film festival is looking forward to better times.
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