{"id":38395,"date":"2025-07-04T15:37:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T15:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38395\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T15:37:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T15:37:13","slug":"paolo-sorrentinos-la-grazia-to-open-venice-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38395\/","title":{"rendered":"Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s \u2018La Grazia\u2019 To Open Venice Film Festival\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLa Grazia, the latest feature from Italian filmmaker <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paolo-sorrentino\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paolo-sorrentino\" data-tag=\"paolo-sorrentino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paolo Sorrentino<\/a>, will open the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/venice\/\" id=\"auto-tag_venice\" data-tag=\"venice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venice<\/a> Film Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe film stars Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti will have its world premiere screening on Wednesday, 27 August in the Sala Grande.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLa Grazia, written and directed by Sorrentino. Very little about the film\u2019s plot is known, but sources close to the film have told Deadline that the film follows the final days of a fictional Italian Presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is a\u00a0Fremantle film produced by The Apartment, Numero 10, and PiperFilm, which will distribute in Italy. Mubi owns worldwide rights, excluding Italy. The Match Factory is handling international sales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cI am very happy that the 82nd Venice International Film Festival will open with the new and highly anticipated film by Paolo Sorrentino,\u201d Venice head Alberto Barbera said in a statement, adding that Sorrentino\u2019s career began at Venice in 2001 with first feature One Man Up. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cThe relationship with the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/venice-film-festival\/\" id=\"auto-tag_venice-film-festival\" data-tag=\"venice-film-festival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Venice Film Festival<\/a> became consolidated over the years with the presentation out of competition of the first episodes in the series The Young Pope (seasons one and two) and, above all, with The Hand of God which, in 2021, won the Silver Lion-Grand Jury Prize,\u201d Barbera added. \u201cPaolo 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBorn in Naples in 1970, Sorrentino\u2019s credits include\u00a0The Consequences of Love\u00a0and\u00a0The Family Friend, which both competed for the Palme d\u2019Or in Cannes in 2004 and 2006 respectively, while his film\u00a0Il Divo\u00a0won the Jury Prize in 2008. He returned In Competition at Cannes in 2011 with\u00a0This Must Be the Place\u00a0and two years later with\u00a0The Great Beauty, which won an Academy Award, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award for Best Foreign Language Film as well as three European Film Awards.\u00a0His last feature Parthenope debuted at Cannes in 2024. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"La Grazia, the latest feature from Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, will open the Venice Film Festival.\u00a0 The film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,30988,67,132,68,9176,30989],"class_list":{"0":"post-38395","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-paolo-sorrentino","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-venice","14":"tag-venice-film-festival"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114795711327558075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38395","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=38395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}