According to press reports, among the favorites to win the several Venice 2007 Lions tomorrow are:
Best Film/Director:
Grain of Life / The Grain and the Mullet / La Graine et le mulet (top) by Abdel Kechiche, the tale of a Tunisian immigrant who, at the rist of losing his job in a French fishing town, tries to stave off financial ruin by opening a floating couscous restaurant.
Redacted, Brian De Palma's war drama about the rape an Iraqi girl by U.S. servicemen.
Todd Haynes' surreal Bob Dylan biopic I'm Not There.
Michael Caine and Jude Law in Sleuth, Kenneth Branagh's remake of the 1972 Michael Caine-Laurence Olivier intricate drama.
Hafsia Herzi in Grain of Life; newcomer Tang Wei, as the seducer in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution; Cate Blanchett as one of the many Bob Dylans in I'm Not There; and Kierston Wareing, as a tough single mother-cum-entrepreneur in Ken Loach's social critique It's a Free World.
As usual, expect lots of surprises.
Venice Film Festival Awards – 2007
64th Venice Film Festival: Competition Line-Up
64th Venice Film Festival: Out of Competition Line-Up
Venice Film Festival 2007 – Horizons Sidebar
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Venice Film Festival 2007 – The British Have Arrived
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Woody Allen's CASSANDRA'S DREAM at the Venice Film Festival 2007
I'M NOT THERE: Bob Dylan Not at the Venice Film Festival 2007
THE GRAIN OF LIFE: Great Cinema at Venice 2007