{"id":179092,"date":"2025-08-27T07:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179092\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T07:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T07:01:10","slug":"biennale-cinema-2025-paolo-sorrentinos-la-grazia-is-the-opening-film-of-the-82nd-venice-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/179092\/","title":{"rendered":"Biennale Cinema 2025 | Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s La Grazia is the Opening Film of the 82nd Venice Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong>La Biennale di Venezia<\/strong>\u00a0is pleased to announce that\u00a0<strong>La Grazia<\/strong>,\u00a0written and directed by the Oscar\u00ae-winning filmmaker\u00a0<strong>Paolo Sorrentino\u00a0<\/strong>(The Hand of God,\u00a0The Great Beauty,\u00a0Il divo), and starring\u00a0<strong>Toni Servillo\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong>\u00a0Anna Ferzetti<\/strong>,\u00a0is the\u00a0<strong>opening film<\/strong>,\u00a0in a\u00a0<strong>world premiere in Competition<\/strong>,\u00a0of the\u00a0<strong>82nd\u00a0Venice International Film Festival\u00a0<\/strong>directed by\u00a0<strong>Alberto Barbera\u00a0<\/strong>(27 August \u2013 6 September 2025).<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong>La Grazia\u00a0<\/strong>will have its world premiere screening on Wednesday\u00a0<strong>27 August 2025\u00a0<\/strong>in\u00a0<strong>Sala Grande\u00a0<\/strong>at the\u00a0<strong>Palazzo del Cinema\u00a0<\/strong>(Lido di Venezia) on the\u00a0<strong>opening night\u00a0<\/strong>of the\u00a0<strong>Biennale Cinema 2025<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong>\u00ab<\/strong>I am very happy that the 82nd\u00a0Venice International Film Festival will open with the new and highly anticipated film by Paolo Sorrentino \u2013 stated\u00a0<strong>Alberto Barbera\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 I like to\u00a0recall that one of the most important and internationally acclaimed Italian auteurs made his debut right here at the Biennale di Venezia in 2001 with his first film,\u00a0One Man Up, in my early years as the Artistic Director. The relationship with the Venice Film Festival became consolidated over the years with the presentation out of competition of the first episodes in the series\u00a0The Young Pope\u00a0(seasons one and two) and, above all, with\u00a0The Hand of God\u00a0which, in 2021, won the Silver Lion-Grand Jury Prize. Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s return in competition comes with a film destined to leave its mark for its great originality and powerful relevance to the present time, which the audiences of the Venice Film Festival will have the pleasure of discovering on opening night.\u00bb<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong>La Grazia<\/strong>,\u00a0written and directed by\u00a0<strong>Paolo Sorrentino<\/strong>, is a\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Fremantle<\/strong>\u00a0film produced by\u00a0<strong>The Apartment, a Fremantle Company<\/strong>,\u00a0by\u00a0<strong>Numero 10<\/strong>, and by\u00a0<strong>PiperFilm<\/strong>\u00a0that will distribute it in Italy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rtejustify\"><strong>MUBI\u00a0<\/strong>owns worldwide rights\u00a0\u00a0excluding Italy. <strong>The Match Factory\u00a0<\/strong>is handling international sales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"La Biennale di Venezia\u00a0is pleased to announce that\u00a0La Grazia,\u00a0written and directed by the Oscar\u00ae-winning filmmaker\u00a0Paolo Sorrentino\u00a0(The Hand of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":179093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-179092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115099447240864949","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}