VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2011 SELECTED FILMS
A Dangerous Method, the latest from director David Cronenberg, examines the complex relationship between the fathers of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Based on the book “A Most Dangerous Method” by John Kerr and adapted from the play “The Talking Cure” by Christopher Hampton. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightly, Vincent Cassel and Sarah Gadon. Directed by David Cronenberg.
Helmed by Steven Soderbergh, this gripping thriller focuses on the outbreak of a lethal virus that kills within days. The CDC must assemble an international team of doctors to combat this mysterious pandemic before it destroys the modern world. Starring Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard and Lawrence Fishburne. Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
In the final days before the heavily contested Ohio Democratic presidential primary, a hot shot campaign staffer finds himself involved in a political scandal that could cost his candidate a shot at the presidency. Based on the play “Farragut North” by Beau Willimon. Starring George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marissa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood. Directed by George Clooney.
Deep in the heart of Texas, a local homicide detective (Sam Worthington) must team up with a displaced New York cop to solve a series of unsolved murders taking place in a marsh called the “Killing Fields”. The detectives’ persistence soon backfires, when they become the Killing Field killer’s next targetS. Starring Sam Worthington, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Jessica Chastain and Chloe Moretz. Directed by Ami Canaan Mann.
Set during the Cold War, master spy George Smiley is called out of retirement and assigned the task of identifying and eradicating a Soviet double agent who has infiltrated the upper eschelons of British Secret Intelligence Agency, MI6. Based on the novel by John le Carre. Starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ciaran Hinds, Toby Jones and Mark Strong. Directed by Tomas Alfredson.
After a 13 year absence, dialogue master Whit Stillman makes his much anticipated return to the director’s chair in Damsels in Distress. The film follows a quartet of beautiful college roommates who seek to change the culture of their grungy East Coast university by helping depressed students through music and dance. Starring Greta Gerwig, Adam Brody, Analeigh Tipton, Megalyn Echikunwoke and Carrie MacLemore. Written and directed by Whit Stillman.
2011 VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL LINE UP:
IN COMPETITION
4:44 Last Day on Earth
Alps
Dark Horse
A Burning Hot Summer (Un Ete Brulant)
The Exchange
Faust
Himizu
Killer Joe
Life Without Principle
Chicken with Plums (Poulet aux Prunes)
When the Night (Quando la Notte)
A Simple Life
Terraferma
The Last Earthling (L’Ultimo Terrestre)
Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale
OUT OF COMPETITION
Almayer’s Folly (La Folie Almayer)
Alois Nebel
La Cle des Champs
La Desintegration
Eva
The Moth Diaries
Scossa
The Sorcerer and the White Snake
Summer Games (Gioghi d’Estate)
Tahrir
Tormented
Il Villaggio Di Cartone
Violet Wister’s Damsels in Distress
Vivan Las Antipodas! (opening film)
Wilde Salome
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