Paolo Sorrentino’s grace will open the Venice Film Festival

Will be Grace by Paolo Sorrentino to open the 82nd edition of the Venice International Film Festival. Oscar -winning director for The great beauty Back to Lido – August 27 – With a new film that already promises to be talked about. In addition, not only for the return behind the camera, but also for the couple of protagonists: Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti.

From Grace – which translates into English Grace – You still know very little. Moreover, The plot is wrapped in the narrowest reserve. Nevertheless, if not for a detail: it will be a love story set somewhere in Italy. In addition, But When it comes to Sorrentino, a detail is enough to turn on the wait.

Toni Servillo. fetish actor of the director and iconic face of The great beautyreturns to collaborate with him in a film that paolo sorrentino’s grace will open marks the fourth time together later The star, They And the masterpiece that conquered the Oscar. Next to him Anna Ferzetti. back from the success of Diamonds by Ferzan Özpetek, who will have the opportunity to measure himself with a role full of expectations.

Grace – A Fremantle film. produced by The Apartment, a Fremantle group company, from number 10, and from Piperfilm that will distribute the film in Italy – will be presented in competition And it will mark the beginning of an edition of the Festival that promises to be already full of big names and glamor from Red Carpet. «I am very happy that to open 82. Venice film art exhibition is the new, highly anticipated film by Paolo Sorrentino “, says Alberto Barbera. «I like to remember that one of the most important. appreciated Italian authors internationally made his debut at the Venice Biennale in 2001 with paolo sorrentino’s grace will open his first film, The extra manin my first years as an artistic director. A link with the consolidated exhibition over the years with the presentation of the first episodes of the series The Young Pope (first. second season) and, above all, with It was the hand of God who, in 2021, deserved the silver-granic lion prize of the jury. Paolo Sorrentino’s return to competition takes place with a film destined to leave his mark for his great originality. strong harmony with the present, which the exhibition’s audience will have the pleasure of discovering on the opening evening ».

In Venice Love according to Sorrentino returns to being the protagonistbetween his unmistakable aesthetic. those reflections on life, beauty and grace that make his vision a unique language in contemporary cinema.