Venice film festival: Burn after watching

Venice film festival: Burn after watching
August 31, 2008 at 9:08 · Filed under News

Brad Pitt, George Clooney and the kings of black humor with a new Coen brothers comedy Burn After Reading opens today 65-th International Film Festival in Venice.

Joel and Ethan Coen, working in the firm and distinctive dramatic-comedy style, brought to Venice after his new masterpiece of Oscar-winning bloody ribbons No place elderly.

In the film, Burn After Reading, they rounded up a bed of Hollywood: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and Richard Jenkins. Malkovich inherited the role of CIA agent who accidentally lost the folder with top secret materials. Daddy fell into the hands of two idiots (one of whom is played by Pitt), working in the gym. In its short-sighted head coach decided to blackmail pierced agent. But no one involved in this history of the parties did not imagine that all of them waiting.

Ipolniteli major role George Clooney and Brad Pitt arrived on the island of Lido, where the Venice film festival, the first of the world famous stars. Inveterate bachelor Clooney, as usual, flirting with the journalist, and Pitt, as a decent father, did not leave their children. He left Angelina Jolie with newborn twins and two daughters in France, and took with him to Venice sons Maddox and Pax. However, to part with them, Pitt, after all, had, when the actor along with his friend and colleague of Humanitarian Affairs, George Clooney went to the gala reception charity Not On Our Watch. In the work of the organization involved almost all of Ocean's Eleven, including Matt Damon and Don Cheadle. They are trying to help victims of humanitarian disasters around the world, in particular, people oppressed by the war in Darfur.

Jury is headed by German director Wim Wenders. Among the celebrities at the fest are waiting for the arrival of Natalie Portman (she will contest shorts), Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger (they will present the film with his participation in the Prairie Fire), Takeshi Kitano and other celebrities. It is possible that at the Lido peep and Mickey Rourke, who played a major role in the movie Darren Aronofsky Wrestler.

For the Golden Lion in the program Mostro will fight 21 films, including film Achilles and the Tortoise Takeshi Kitano and fighter Darren Aronofsky. Outside of the contest will show about 40 films. In the main program were also two animated, both Japanese: Sky Crawlers Mamoru Oshii (the author of the cult Ghost in the Shell) and Hayao Miyazaki's Ponyo Fish, winner of an Oscar, a Golden Bear in Berlin and Venice's Golden Lion.

Total during the Venice festival will be held 49 world premieres. Festival will end on September 6.