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The 81st Venice International Film Festival opened with Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Its Orizzonti sidebar was opened by Feeling Better. Sigourney Weaver and Peter Weir both received honorary Golden Lions. The Golden Lion for best film went to Pedro Almodóvar for The House Next Door.
The festival runs from 28 August to 7 September.
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- Episodic
- Orizzonti
- Orizzonti Extra
- Out Of Competition
- Venezia 81 Competition
- Venice Classics
- Venice Days
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Venice Latest Reviews
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
Dramatisation of the life of the opera singer Maria Callas.
1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.
An FBI agent comes to believe a series of violent crimes are the work of domestic terrorists.
A louche older man pursues a younger boy toy in Mexico City before the pair go on the hunt for psychedelics in Ecuador.
When Ingrid finds out that her old friend Martha is seriously ill, they reunite and embark on a journey of discoveries.
Follows an octogenarian woman’s transition to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
Failed comedian Arthur Fleck meets the love of his life as his murder trial begins.
Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.
When visionary architect László Tóth flees post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild his legacy and witness the birth of modern America, his life is changed forever by a wealthy client.
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