{"id":35086,"date":"2025-08-31T18:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T18:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35086\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T18:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T18:59:07","slug":"jude-law-as-putin-earns-wizard-of-the-kremlin-ovation-at-venice-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/35086\/","title":{"rendered":"Jude Law as Putin Earns Wizard of the Kremlin Ovation at Venice Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cThe Wizard of the Kremlin<\/a>,\u201d a political thriller starring Jude Law<\/a> as Vladimir Putin and Paul Dano as his former right-hand man and spin-doctor Vadim Baranov, earned a hugely enthusiastic 10-minute standing ovation at this year\u2019s Venice Film Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the film belonged to Dano, who smiled appreciatively at the applause, it was the star power of Law that gave the audience cause for screams of \u201cBravo!\u201d The actor \u2014\u00a0sporting a white tux jacket \u2014 beamed and clapped throughout the ovation, only pausing to embrace Olivier Assayas. The director did well to work the crowd, climbing over seats behind him to hug various members of the film team and walking down the steps to show his appreciation for the cheers. Meanwhile, Alicia Vikander, who plays Baranov\u2019s romantic interest Ksenia, wiped away tears as the ovation continued.<\/p>\n

\n\tSet in the early \u201990s during the final years of the Soviet Union, \u201cThe Wizard of the Kremlin\u201d follows the fictional character of reality TV producer Vadim Baranov, who unexpectedly becomes the spin doctor of Putin, a former KGB officer and promising up-and-comer in the Russian Federation. Tom Sturridge and Jeffrey Wright round out the cast.<\/p>\n

\n\tAssayas (\u201cPersonal Shopper\u201d) directed and co-wrote \u201cThe Wizard of the Kremlin,\u201d adapted from Giuliano da Empoli\u2019s 2022 novel of the same name. Though a fictional account, the story has heightened relevance amid Russia\u2019s continued full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Putin has been in the news lately after meeting with President Donald Trump, who has been working to cobble together a peace deal between the two nations.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBeyond the passions of men navigating the dangerous fluxes of modern politics, we see the powerful cinematic sweep of history in the making,\u201d Assayas said when the film was announced. \u201cIt\u2019s drama; it\u2019s action; it\u2019s about trying to make sense of the chaos that is transforming our world in the strangest, most disturbing ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAssayas was last on the Lido with 2019\u2019s\u00a0\u201cWasp Network,\u201d a spy drama starring Pen\u00e9lope Cruz, Edgar Ram\u00edrez, Ana de Armas and Gael Garc\u00eda Bernal.\u00a0Law attended the 2024 edition of Venice with crime thriller \u201cThe Order,\u201d in which he portrayed an FBI agent investigating a white supremacist group in the \u201980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Wizard of the Kremlin,\u201d a political thriller starring Jude Law as Vladimir Putin and Paul Dano as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[434,18,117,19,17,27249,22984,11492],"class_list":{"0":"post-35086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-jude-law","14":"tag-the-wizard-of-the-kremlin","15":"tag-venice-film-festival"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}