Photograph courtesy La Biennale
Venice:
Film Festival – The Reluctant Fundamentalist. The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the new film directed by Mira Nair, was the opening film at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. The Festival this
year is directed by Alberto Barbera and organized by La Biennale di Venezia, which is chaired
by, chaired by Paolo
Baratta. Based on the best-selling novel of
the same title, the movie is a riveting international political thriller that
follows the story of a young Pakistani man, chasing corporate success on Wall
Street, who ultimately finds himself embroiled in a conflict between his
American Dream, a hostage crisis, and the enduring call of his family's
homeland.
Above: Mira Nair directs Riz Ahmed.
Mira Nair, Golden
Lion winner in 2001 for Monsoon Wedding, returns to the Venice Film
Festival for her fifth time.
Photograph courtesy La Biennale
The Reluctant Fundamentalist -
Riz Ahmed and Kiefer Sutherland.
Photograph courtesy La Biennale
The
Reluctant Fundamentalist - Kate Hudson.