2025 Venice Film Festival

- Opens with Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia

- Jarmusch’s comedy-drama Father Mother Sister Brother, starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, and Tom Waits

- Lanthimos’ sci-fi Bugonia, with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons;

- Baumbach’s Jay Kelly (George Clooney, Adam Sandler, and Laura Dern);

- Luca Guadagnino’s #MeToo-themed thriller After the Hunt (Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Edebiri)

- Benny Safdie’s Nala Sinephro–scored UFC movie The Smashing Machine (Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt)

- Gus Van Sant’s first in seven years, the Bill Skarsgard–starring Dead Man’s Wire

- Kathryn Bigelow’s first in eight, the geopolitical thriller A House of Dynamite, with Idris Elba and Rebecca Ferguson

- Olivier Assayas’ The Wizard of the Kremlin, about the rise of a fictional Vladimir V. Putin spin doctor

- Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave follow-up No Other Choice

- François Ozon’s Albert Camus adaptation L’Étranger

- Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein

- Sofia Coppola’s Marc Jacobs doc Marc by Sofia

- Werner Herzog’s Ghost Elephants

- Closes with 100 Nights of Hero, a movie from writer and director Julia Jackman, with Charli XCX and DL fave Nicky Galitzine

The Stranger adaptation with Benjamin Voisin is a nice surprise! He's turning into quite the little film star, isn't he?

He's collaborated with Ozon previously on Summer of '85, the CMBYN ripoff, which was cute enough.

So Julia supposedly is going to win her second Oscar for this? All I see is her doing her usual schtick - playing Julia Roberts.

r3 It IS her usual schtick, but isn't there something comforting about a Roberts performance in 2025 when everything is falling apart around us? So she might get it because of that comfort food factor. And because of the subject matter, too.