The Venice Film Festival’s 2019 competition line-up has been announced and the titles all rumored the other day have been confirmed to be competing.
Todd Phillips’ comic adaptation “Joker,” Steven Soderbergh’s Panama Papers scandal drama “The Laundromat,” James Gray’s astronaut drama “Ad Astra,” Olivier Assayas’ “Wasp Network,” Atom Egoyan’s “Guest of Honor,” Ciro Guerra’s “Waiting For The Barbarians,” Haifaa Al-Mansour’s “The Perfect Candidate,” Pablo Larrain “Ema,” Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “The Truth” and more are all up for the big prize among numerous others in the competiton category.
Outside of competition there’s some impressive titles too including David Michod’s Henriad adaptation “The King” starring Timothy Chalamet, Benedict Andrews’s “Seberg” starring Kristen Stewart, Matthew Michael Carnahan’s gritty “Mosul,” Giuseppe Capotondi’s talked about “The Burnt Orange Heresy,” Paolo Sorrentino’s “The New Pope,” and Stefano Sollima’s “ZeroZeroZero”. The full line-up can be found at La biennale.
Venice fest chief Alberto Barbera has received criticism over the choices, from the selection of only two female filmmaker’s in the competition category alongside the controversial Roman Polanski, to the inclusion of three Netflix titles which has upset European exhibitors.
