Until a few years ago, the Venice Film Festival wasn’t viewed as much of an awards-season bellwether.
After the success of “La La Land” and “The Shape of Water,” it’s hard to imagine it as anything else.
And while this year’s edition of the world’s oldest film festival boasts Damien Chazelle’s “First Man,” Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma,” Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspiria,” and Bradley Cooper’s “A Star Is Born,” that’s all the more reason to dig a little deeper.It’s also worth anticipating Willem Dafoe as Vincent Van Gogh in “At Eternity’s Gate,” and Joaquin Phoenix and John C.
Reilly as siblings in “The Sisters Brothers.” But with all of those offerings generating hype across the fall festival season, the under-the-radar options look all the more enticing.
Here are 10 of them.“Charlie Says” (Orizzonti)Mary Harron, director of “American Psycho” and “Alias Grace,
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