The United States has seven films
in competition at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival
running in the lagoon city from August 31 to September 10.
The line-up is a mixed bag of genres and themes, including
the romantic horror-thriller The Bad Batch written and directed
by American-Iranian director Ana Lily Amirpour, the family drama
The Light between Oceans by Derek Cianfrance, Nocturnal Animals
by Tom Ford, recounting the tragic misadventures of a man on
holiday with his family, and the biopic Jackie by Pablo Larrain
biopic starring Natalie Portman in the role of Jackie Kennedy.
Other US films to look out for at Venice are Voyage of
Time, a documentary film written and directed by Terrence Malick
examining the birth and death of the known universe, new alien
invasion movie Arrival by Denis Villeneuve, loosely inspired by
the novel Story of Your Life by Ted Chiang, and La La Land, a
homage to the Golden Age of the American musical written and
directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Emma Stone, Ryan
Gosling, John Legend and J. K. Simmons.
photo: Stone and Gosling in La La Land
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