Amos Gitai’s ‘Why War,’ Starring Irene Jacob and Mathieu Amalric, Debuts First Clip Ahead of Venice Premiere (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor Variety has been given access to the first clip from “Why War,” written and directed by Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai.
The film, starring Irène Jacob, Mathieu Amalric, Micha Lescot and Jérôme Kircher, has its world premiere on Aug. 31 at the Venice Film Festival in an out of competition berth.
The film is inspired by correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud about how humanity could avoid war. It is also based on a work by Virginia Woolf, “Three Guineas,” in which she investigates the relationships of domination in sexuality, to which an essay by Susan Sontag, “Regarding the Pain of Others,” responds, and talks about the iconography of war.
In a statement, Gitai says: “When the attack on October 7th occurred, I wanted to read and reread some texts to seek help and understand the roots of this human desire to engage in war and in killing.
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