September 1st, 2009 10:06 pm
Michael Moore’s Wall Street Satire to Open at Venice Festival
By Farah Nayeri
Sept. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Michael Moore, the American filmmaker and satirist, is making Venice the launchpad for his Wall Street diatribe, “Capitalism: A Love Story.”
Moore’s “Capitalism” will compete for the top prize at the 10-day Venice Film Festival, which opens today. The two-hour movie, which screens next weekend, is a comical documentary on the past year’s global financial meltdown, starting with the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and the bailout of American International Group Inc.
“It’s a crime story, but it’s also a war story about class warfare,” writes Moore in a posting on his YouTube channel. “And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off the rest of us.”
Venice, the world’s oldest film festival, has two dozen movies vying for the Golden Lion award given out on Sept. 12. The lineup of U.S. films is lengthy this year -- both in and out of the official contest -- after a slim 2008 showing on the back of the Hollywood screenwriters’ strike.
Also competing is fashion designer Tom Ford’s directorial debut “A Single Man,” with Colin Firth and Julianne Moore, about an English professor who strives to get on with life after his partner dies. It will be up against, among others, John Hillcoat’s “The Road,” a Cormac McCarthy novel adaptation with Charlize Theron and Viggo Mortensen.
Screening outside of the official competition is Steven Soderbergh’s “The Informant!” starring Matt Damon, who plays a whistleblower in an agricultural commodities company; and Grant Heslov’s “The Men Who Stare at Goats,” with George Clooney, about an Iraq reporter who is fed an intriguing story by a special-forces agent.
Water Taxis
Director Oliver Stone will showcase his documentary “South of the Border” about Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.
Photographers will angle for snaps of film stars as they step off water taxis and onto the red carpet. Actors invited to Venice this year include Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Monica Bellucci, Isabelle Huppert, Val Kilmer, Omar Sharif, Robert Duvall, Ewan McGregor, Jeff Bridges and Kevin Spacey.
Charlotte Gainsbourg features in “Persecution” by Patrice Chereau, also in the official competition. Her mother Jane Birkin stars in Jacques Rivette’s “Around a Small Mountain,” another of France’s four Venice contestants.
The festival’s opening movie is “Baaria” (with Bellucci) by Giuseppe Tornatore, an autobiographical take on his Sicilian birthplace. Tornatore made a name internationally with his 1988 melodrama “Cinema Paradiso,” about a Sicilian film director’s memories of the movie theater in his hometown.
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