Three new films will premiere at
the 2017 Venice Film Festival.
The 74th edition of the international Venice Film Festival on
August 30-September 9 is directed by Alberto Barbera and
organized by the Biennale chaired by Paolo Baratta.
One of the three films is Zhuibu (Manhunt) by Hong Kong
director John Woo.
A remake of a 1976 Japanese classic, the movie talks about a
Chinese man who has been framed for a murder in Japan and tries
to clear his name while he dodges a manhunt organized by police
and is being attacked by mysterious killers.
The Venice Film Festival in 2010 presented John Woo with the
prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
Zhuibu will not be running for an award.
L'Ordine delle Cose (the order of things) by Italian director
Andrea Segre talks about Corrado, a policeman working for a task
force deployed to control migrant flows.
While coordinating a delicate mission in Libya, Corrado meets
Swada, a young Somali woman who is trying to reach her husband
in Finland.
The movie will premiere in the special screening category.
Italian documentary L'Enigma di Jean Rouch a Torino - cronaca
di un film raté (The Enigma of Jean Rouch in Turin) by Marco di
Castri, Paolo Favaro and Daniele Pianciola focuses on the
"laboratory of ideas" founded by Rouch from 1984 through 1986 as
he was preparing the 1988 film Enigma.
Rouch was an anthropologist and filmmaker and is considered
one of the founders of a style of documentary filmmaking called
cinéma-vérité.
The documentary is narrated by some of the original project's
protagonists and will screen in competition in the Venice
classics' documentary section.
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