Isabelle Huppert-Starrer ‘Sidonie au Japan’ Set for Venice Days Launch – Full Lineup
variety.comNick Vivarelli International Correspondent French director Élise Girard’s “Sidonie in Japan” starring Isabelle Huppert as a French writer mourning her husband’s death while on a book tour of Japan, is among titles set to launch from the Venice Film Festival’s independently run Giornate Degli Autori.
The section, also known as Venice Days, has unveiled its lineup comprising ten titles world premiering in competition – six of which first works – and films in other sections all displaying a wide range of genres and visual styles, but tied together by “A common discourse,” said the section’s artistic director Gaia Furrer.
The selected films “With all their thematic or formal eclecticism still dialogue with each other,” Furer pointed out in a statement.
Opening the section in competition is Italian director Tommaso Santambrogio’s black and white drama “Oceans Are the Real Continents” set and shot in a decadent contemporary Cuba (see image below).
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