Photograph by ASAC courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Red Carpet
Robert Redford and Jane Fonda
Photograph by ASAC courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Red Carpet
Paolo Baratta president of La Biennale di Venezia
Alberto Barbera
director of La Biennale di
Venezia Cinema
Photograph by ASAC courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Golden Lions Awards
La Biennale di
Venezia - Cinema
Jane Fonda and
Robert Redford are the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement
of the 74th Venice Film Festival 2017.
Photograph
by Kerry Brown – courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Our
Souls at Night
Ritesh
Batra
From the novel Our
Souls at Night by Kent
Haruf, Ritesh Batra’s film with Jane Fonda, Robert Redford,
Bruce Dern, Matthias Schoenaerts, Judy Greer. Addie Moore has a
most unusual proposal for Louis Waters. They are both past retirement age and
widowed for some time. They both live in a quiet Colorado town where the best thing is that everyone knows everyone.
And the worst thing is that everyone knows everyone. Although they’ve been
longtime neighbors, their acquaintance is hardly more than casual, until one
day Addie proposes that they sleep together—purely for the companionship, to
have someone to talk to in the dark, to sense the presence of another soul in
close proximity, to help sleep come easier. When Louis agrees, Addie is both
surprised and delighted. What they discover in the relative dark of night, they
reveal through the stories they tell each other, history that’s long buried.
It’s only by confessing their past to one another that they can shed the guilt
of lost opportunities—words and emotions thought but never expressed—and move
past the devastating effect the absence of love can have on a life and into the
beautiful effect finding love again can have in life’s final chapter.
Photograph
by Kerry Brown – courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
“Working with the
actors and the land to tell Haruf’s story of this cycle of love and loss that
is life, just made me more certain that stuff of great literature exists
nowhere else but in our everyday lives, as it always has.”
Ritesh
Batra
Director
Contessanally – Most enjoyable –
7/10
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