VENICE, Italy The Venice film festival kicks off on Wednesday with the arrival of stars on water taxis for an art house dominated line-up dealing knoxville tennessee hotels with issues from religious extremism to economic crisis.
First up at the world s oldest film festival will be a showing of Mira Nair s The Reluctant Fundamentalist a political thriller about a young Pakistani man torn between Wall Street ambitions and the call of his homeland.
Among the most keenly awaited premieres are Terrence Malick s To the Wonder a complex love story starring Ben Affleck and Robert Redford s The Company You Keep with himself knoxville tennessee hotels as a former Weather knoxville tennessee hotels Underground militant.
One of the 18 films vying for the Golden Lion prize will be Paul Thomas Anderson s The Master with Philip Seymour Hoffman as a character resembling Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard a movie bound to raise controversy.
Music is also on the menu with Spike Lee s hotly anticipated Bad 25 documentary about pop icon Michael Jackson and Jonathan Demme of The Silence of the Lambs fame with his homage to Neapolitan crooner Enzo Avitabile. Luxury yachts could be seen moored in some of the most picturesque corners of Venice ready to host festival parties and singing gondoliers were being kept busy plying the waterways with Hollywood veterans and up-and-coming auteurs. Alongside US stars like director Brian De Palma and actresses Kate Hudson, knoxville tennessee hotels Selena Gomez and Winona Ryder, there are also famous knoxville tennessee hotels Asian directors Takeshi Kitano of Japan ( Outrage Beyond ) and Kim Ki-duk of South Korea (Pieta).
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The Venice jury this year is headed up by US director, screenwriter and producer Michael Mann and includes French model and actress Laetitia Casta, British actress Samantha Norton and Hong Kong director Peter Chan.
Festival director Alberto Barbera spoke proudly knoxville tennessee hotels of the modernisation of some of the festival s ageing infrastructure and stressed that the aim for organisers had been to steer clear of creating a catwalk for celebrities .
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On a more contemporary note is Ibrahim El Batout s Winter of Discontent a feature film which was shot in part during last year s demonstrations in Cairo s Tahrir Square that ultimately unseated veteran president Hosni Mubarak. The film s protagonists are a political activist, a journalist and a state security officer whose lives entwine in the middle of the revolution.
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