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Vogue
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Paolo Sorrentino's La Grazia Will Open the 2025 Venice Film Festival
'I am very happy that the 82nd Venice International Film Festival will open with the new and highly anticipated film by Paolo Sorrentino,' said the festival's artistic director, Alberto Barbera, in a press release on Friday, July 4. The announcement delighted both him and the fans of the Neapolitan filmmaker. 'I like to recall that one of the most important and internationally acclaimed Italian auteurs made his debut right here at the Biennale di Venezia in 2001 with his first film, One Man Up, in my early years as the artistic director.' The director will thus return to the lagoon for the 82nd edition of the festival, which will take place from August 27 to September 6, 2025. Perhaps best known for 2014's Oscar-winning The Great Beauty, Sorrentino quickly established himself in the world of cinema. The son of a banker and a homemaker, he premiered his debut film at Italy's most prestigious film festival and was selected for the official competition at the Cannes Film Festival with only his second feature, The Consequences of Love (2005). For his latest project, titled La Grazia, Sorrentino reunites with actor Toni Servillo, a longtime collaborator. Servillo will star opposite Italian actress Anna Ferzetti. No synopsis has been revealed yet; all we know so far is that it will be a love story.
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Paolo Sorrentino's ‘La Grazia' Set to Open Venice Film Festival
This year's Venice Film Festival will open with Paolo Sorrentino's La Grazia. As the Oscar-winning director reteams with Toni Servillo, the opening night film — which translates to 'Grace' in English — will get its world premiere in competition on the lido on Wednesday, Aug. 27. While plot details remain unknown, Diamonds actor Anna Ferzetti will also star. More from The Hollywood Reporter La Roux Wants You to Know That Beyond Singing, She Also Writes, Produces, and Performs Her Music Monotony and a First-Time Actor Loom Large in Reintegration Drama 'Rain Fell on the Nothing New' As Oasis Kicks Off Their Reunion Tour, the Band Gives Fans Fresh Merch and Clothing Collabs 'I am very happy that the 82nd Venice International Film Festival will open with the new and highly anticipated film by Paolo Sorrentino,' said fest director Alberto Barbera. 'I like to recall that one of the most important and internationally acclaimed Italian auteurs made his debut right here at the Biennale di Venezia in 2001 with his first film, One Man Up, in my early years as the artistic director.' He continued: 'The relationship with the Venice Film Festival became consolidated over the years with the presentation out of competition of the first episodes in the series The Young Pope (seasons one and two) and, above all, with The Hand of God which, in 2021, won the Silver Lion-Grand Jury Prize.' 'Paolo Sorrentino's return in competition comes with a film destined to leave its mark for its great originality and powerful relevance to the present time,' he added, 'which the audiences of the Venice Film Festival will have the pleasure of discovering on opening night.' La Grazia, written and directed by Sorrentino, is a Fremantle film produced by The Apartment, a Fremantle Company, by Numero 10 and by PiperFilm that will distribute it in Italy. MUBI owns worldwide rights excluding Italy. The Match Factory is handling international sales. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The 40 Best Films About the Immigrant Experience Wes Anderson's Movies Ranked From Worst to Best 13 of Tom Cruise's Most Jaw-Dropping Stunts
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Paolo Sorrentino's 'La Grazia' to open Venice Film Festival
July 4 (Reuters) - Oscar-winning Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino will open this year's Venice Film Festival with his new movie "La Grazia", organisers said on Friday. Sorrentino, 55, is known for films such as "Il Divo", "The Great Beauty" and "The Hand of God", a deeply personal movie about losing his parents as a teenager, which took the runner-up Grand Jury Prize at the 2021 festival. "La Grazia" ("Grace"), which Sorrentino also wrote, will screen in competition at this year's event, which kicks off on August 27 and takes place on the Venice Lido, a thin barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon. It stars his longtime collaborator Toni Servillo and actress Anna Ferzetti. Little is known about the film. Sorrentino has previously been quoted as saying he and Servillo wanted to make a Francois Truffaut-style love story. "Paolo Sorrentino's return in competition comes with a film destined to leave its mark for its great originality and powerful relevance to the present time," the festival's artistic director Alberto Barbera said in a statement. The Naples-born Sorrentino debuted his first feature film, "One Man Up", in Venice in 2001. He has also previously presented the first episodes of his television series "The Young Pope" at the festival. "The Great Beauty", about an ageing writer's reflections on life and his search for meaning among Rome's idle rich, won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014. Sorrentino picked up his second Oscar nomination for "The Hand of God". The 82nd Venice Film Festival will run from August 27 to September 6.
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Paolo Sorrentino's ‘La Grazia' Toplining ‘The Great Beauty' Star Toni Servillo Set as Venice Film Festival Opener
Paolo Sorrentino's 'La Grazia,' a love story that re-teams the Oscar-winning director with 'The Great Beauty' actor Toni Servillo, has been set as opening film of the upcoming Venice Film Festival. 'La Grazia' – the title can be translated in English as 'Grace' – will be launching from the Lido in competition. More from Variety Colman Domingo to Host amfAR Venice Film Festival Gala (EXCLUSIVE) Venice 2025: 'Smashing Machine' With Dwayne Johnson, Luca Guadagnino's 'After the Hunt' Starring Julia Roberts, Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos' Latest Collab Eyed for Lineup Wong Kar-wai's 'Blossoms Shanghai' Sets Criterion Channel Launch Following Mubi Acquisition Servillo stars in 'La Grazia' opposite Italian actor Anna Ferzetti, who recently appeared in Ferzan Ozpetek's smash hit 'Diamonds.' Plot details of Sorrentino's new film are being kept under wraps besides the fact that it is a love story set somewhere in Italy. 'La Grazia' will mark Servillo's seventh collaboration with Sorrentino who has shot 10 feature films to date. They first teamed up in Sorrentino's dazzling 2001 debut, 'One Man Up' in which Servillo played an ageing cocaine-addicted crooner. Servillo is best known to international audiences for his memorable turn as Roman writer and socialite Jep Gambardella who embarks on a Dantesque descent amid the Eternal City's grotesque glitterati in 'The Great Beauty,' which won the 2014 best international film Oscar. He also played a heroin-addicted accountant for the mob in Sorrentino's sophomore film 'The Consequences of Love;' controversial Italian politician Giulio Andreotti in 'Il Divo;' and media-mogul-turned-politician Silvio Berlusconi in Sorrentino's 'Loro.' 'I am very happy that the 82nd Venice International Film Festival will open with the new and highly anticipated film by Paolo Sorrentino,' Venice artistic director Alberto Barbera said in a statement. He went on to underline that Sorrentino made his festival debut at Venice in 2001 with 'One Man Up' during Barbera's early years as Venice chief. Though Sorrentino launched several subsequent works – including 'The Consequences of Love,' 'Il Divo,' and 'The Great Beauty' – from Cannes, his rapport with Venice consolidated over the years with the launch from the Lido of the first episodes in his groundbreaking series 'The Young Pope' (seasons one and two) and, with his 2021 film 'The Hand of God' that won the Silver Lion-Grand Jury Prize. 'Paolo Sorrentino's return [to Venice] in competition comes with a film destined to leave its mark for its great originality and powerful relevance to the present time, which the audiences of the Venice Film Festival will have the pleasure of discovering on opening night,' Barbera concluded. 'La Grazia,' which is written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, is a Fremantle film produced by The Apartment, a Fremantle Company, by Sorrentino's own Numero 10 shingle, and by PiperFilm that will distribute it in Italy. Mubi owns worldwide rights excluding Italy. The Match Factory is handling international sales. As previously revealed by Mubi boss Efe Cakarel, Jim Jarmusch's triptych picture 'Father Mother Sister Brother,' starring Cate Blanchett and Adam Driver, is believed to be up for a Lido competition slot. The upcoming edition of Venice is shaping up to be a star-studded affair with Benny Safdie's 'The Smashing Machine,' featuring Dwayne Johnson as two-time UFC heavyweight champ Mark Kerr and Emily Blunt as his wife Dawn; Luca Guadagnino's #MeToo-themed thriller 'After the Hunt' starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri; and 'Bugonia,' the latest collaboration between Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone — who were last at the fest in 2023 with the Oscar-winning 'Poor Things' — all likely to be set for a Venice sendoff, as Variety has reported. As previously announced, two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne will preside over the main jury. The 82nd edition of Venice will run Aug. 27-Sept. 6. The lineup will be announced on July 22. Best of Variety Oscars 2026: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Roberts, Wagner Moura and More Among Early Contenders to Watch New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week 'Harry Potter' TV Show Cast Guide: Who's Who in Hogwarts?
