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Isabelle Huppert & Venice Jury Members Share Concerns About “Very Weak” Condition Of Contemporary Cinema
Venice Film Festival runs until September 7.
French acting legend Isabelle Huppert, who is president of the Venice Film Festival jury this year, was joined by her panelists as artistic director Alberto Barbera hosted the opening press conference for the 81st running of the event this morning. Buzzy titles in the competition include another sequel from Warner Bros, Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, as well as Pablo Larrain’s Angelina Jolie-starrer Maria, Luca Guadagnino’s William S Burroughs’s adaptation Queer with Daniel Craig and Pedro Almodovar’s English-language feature debut, The Room Next Door. Working with Huppert are jury members James Gray — a Silver Lion winner for 1994’s Little Odessa who was last in Venice with 2019’s Ad Astra — Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland (Special Jury Prize winner for last year’s The Green Border), Kleber Mendonça Filho, Abderrahmane Sissako, Giuseppe Tornatore, Julia von Heinz and Zhang Ziyi.
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