The 78th Venice Film Festival gets underway Wednesday with a slew of Hollywood stars expected on the red carpet for the Sept.
1-11 event, beginning with Penelope Cruz for Pedro Almodovar’s opening film “Parallel Mothers,” in competition, and Isabelle Huppert for French drama “Promises,” which opens the fest’s more cutting-edge Horizons section.They will soon be followed by the creative teams and key cast “of all the films,” said artistic director Alberto Barbera speaking to Variety.
He pointed out that Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya and the “entire 10-member cast” of Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” reboot are headed to the Lido.“This year, there is a quantity of talents coming, especially from the U.S., that is really impressive,” Barbera added, underlining that “the Americans are out in full force.”The only major U.S.
actor who won’t be coming is Adam Driver, who stars in Ridley Scott’s medieval epic “The Last Duel,
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