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The 18 Movies We’re Most Excited to See at Venice and TIFF
Two major film festivals are happening over the next two weeks in Venice and Toronto, setting the film world’s agenda for the rest of the year.
While Asif Kapadia got his start making narrative films, he’s best known for Senna, Amy, and Diego Maradona, documentaries crafted entirely out of archival footage to form fascinating montages of famous figures as they were captured by cameras, both publicly and privately. Thus comes the new film from arthouse wunderkind Brady Corbet: a 70-mm., three-and-a-half-hour epic about a fictional Hungarian Holocaust survivor (Adrien Brody) who attempts to preach the architectural glory of raw concrete with the help of a mysterious benefactor (Guy Pearce). Ralph Fiennes as the head of the College of Cardinals, whose job is to oversee the selection, is enough to get my butt in a seat, but throw in Isabella Rossellini as a bossy nun and a novel as source material that includes an eye-popping (and potentially problematic) twist, and I’m more than willing to overlook the fact that I didn’t really like director Edward Berger’s last film, the Oscar-winning All Quiet on the Western Front.
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