2019 Venecia
Movies I saw at the 2019 Venice Film Festival, ranked
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- DirectorJames GrayStarsBrad PittTommy Lee JonesRuth NeggaAstronaut Roy McBride undertakes a mission across an unforgiving solar system to uncover the truth about his missing father and his doomed expedition that now, 30 years later, threatens the universe.
- DirectorNoah BaumbachStarsAdam DriverScarlett JohanssonJulia GreerNoah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
- DirectorGrear PattersonStarsJack IrvBen IrvingLily GavinA pair of players on a successful high school baseball team, the Giants, come of age in the American South.
- DirectorRodrigo SorogoyenStarsMarta NietoJules PorierAlex BrendemühlTen years have passed since Elena's son, then six years old, has disappeared. Today Elena lives and works at a seaside restaurant until she meets a teenager who reminds her of her missing son.
- DirectorPema TsedenStarsSonam WangmoJinpaYangshik TsoA family struggles against the conflicting dictates of nature, spirituality, politics, and free will.
- DirectorTodd PhillipsStarsJoaquin PhoenixRobert De NiroZazie BeetzDuring the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
- DirectorKore-eda HirokazuStarsCatherine DeneuveJuliette BinocheEthan HawkeA stormy reunion between scriptwriter Lumir with her famous mother and actress, Fabienne, against the backdrop of Fabienne's autobiographic book and her latest role in a Sci-Fi picture as a daughter of a mother who never grows old.
- DirectorPablo LarraínStarsMariana Di GirólamoGael García BernalSantiago CabreraA couple deals with the aftermath of an adoption that goes awry as their household falls apart.
- DirectorJessica PaludStarsNiels SchneiderAdèle ExarchopoulosRoman Coustère HachezA man in his early thirties returns to the rural farm of his childhood and rejoins the family struggle to get by.
- DirectorMichaela MihályiDavid StumpfThe caretaker exhausted of everything. His frustrated wife. Totally depressed deer. Their mutual despair leads them to some absurd events, because sh_t happens all the time.
- DirectorSaim SadiqStarsAlina KhanAbdullah MalikMehar BanoAs a new show is introduced at an erotic dance theatre in Lahore, a sacrificial goat goes missing, a dreamy trans girl desperately tries to become a star and a naive young boy falls in love.
- DirectorPeter StricklandStarsCsaba MolnárGyula MuskovicsA confrontation between two swimmers in a locker room.
- DirectorSteven SoderberghStarsGary OldmanAntonio BanderasAJ MeijerA widow investigates an insurance fraud, chasing leads to a pair of Panama City law partners exploiting the world's financial system.
- DirectorKonstantina KotzamaniStarsJuan Carlos AduviriNelly PrinceElisa MassinoOn Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they'll fall, the ones who live beneath are afraid they'll drown.
- DirectorCosta-GavrasStarsChristos LoulisAlexandros BourdoumisUlrich TukurGreece in 2015: the economy is in tatters and the country is on the verge of bankruptcy. A new government rebels against the EU's iron-fisted rule and inspires millions of Europeans. Based on the political memoirs of Yanis Varoufakis.
- DirectorThomas WoodroffeStarsFrancisca GavilánNicolas SobarzoJosé SozaMiddle-aged Amanda and her teenager son invite his friend to their remote cottage for the holidays. When the friend is wounded, it introduces an unexpected emotional dynamic into the group.
- DirectorAntoine de BaryStarsVincent LacosteEmmanuelle DevosChristopher LambertAn actor who enjoyed success in his youth finds his career and life in a downward spiral as he gets older.
- DirectorGuillermo ArriagaStarsIsabel AerenlundDanny HustonJorge A. JimenezA group of American soldiers travel into Mexico for an unknown mission and they encounter a surprising world which changes their views.
- DirectorSean Robert DunnStarsEmun ElliottMegan ShandleyMichael AbubakarA middle-class family spends the day together purchasing items in anticipation of the arrival of a new baby. We follow them into a consumerist dreamscape that soon dissolves into something nightmarish. Things take a violent turn when the patriarch of the family is confronted by a group of masked vigilantes.
- DirectorZain DuraieStarsMaria ZreikZiad BakriNibal Al AwadiSalam's dream of becoming a mother shatters when she finds out that she is unable to have children with her husband. A lifetime of convictions and beliefs are put to the test as Salam realizes she must make a choice.
- DirectorYonfanStarsSylvia ChangWei ZhaoAlex Tak-Shun LamZiming, a University undergraduate, is entangled between his amorous feelings for a self-exiled mother Mrs Yu from Taiwan and her beautiful daughter Meiling, in the era coincides with Hong Kong's turbulent times of 1967.
- DirectorOlivier AssayasStarsPenélope CruzEdgar RamírezGael García BernalThe story of five Cuban political prisoners who had been imprisoned by the United States since the late 1990s on charges of espionage and murder.
- DirectorClémence PoésyStarsIndia HairSabine TimoteoPierre LopezFlorence is an actress. Preparations for her new role will challenge her in a way she could never have seen coming.