Yesterday has been the last day of the 74th International Venice Film Festival and the great closure ceremony has taken place in Sala Grande in the Palazzo del Cinema, Venezia Lido.
Una famiglia is directed by Sebastiano Riso and it’s a drama based on a universal issue that makes people talk all over the world: surrogate motherhood.
Directed by Martin McDonagh and produced by Fox Searchlight Pictures, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri is a dark comedic drama on the death and rape of a young girl, right under one of the billboards.
Directed by Paolo Virzì, starring Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, The Leisure Seeker is a beautiful on the road film about getting old and suicide. The plot is based on the novel The Leisure Seeker by Michael Zadoorian.
Directed by Edoardo Winspeare, La vita in comune is a magnifying glass over life in a small village in Puglia, Italy, named Disperata. The film maintains its true nature by having the actors act in typical “salentino”, a Puglia dialect.
Espèces Menacées (Endangered Species) is a French and Belgian production directed by Gilles Bourdos, and it’s a drama. The film stars actors like Damien Chapelle, Pauline Etienne, Suzanne Clément (in Mommy) and Alice Isaaz.
