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Five years after “Joker” won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival, filmmaker Todd Phillips is returning with a sequel. “Joker: Folie à Deux” will compete against 20 other films, festival organizers said Tuesday.
The highly anticipated sequel to the hit comic book movie stars Joaquin Phoenix as the mentally ill Arthur Fleck and Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn.
The 81st festival’s lineup, announced earlier Tuesday, also includes new films starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig and Jude Law.
Joker 2 is competing against Chilean Pablo Larraín’s Maria Callas film starring Jolie; Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here; the erotic thriller Baby Girl, starring Kidman and Harris Dickinson, directed by filmmaker Halina Regin; Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of William S. Burroughs, Queer, with Craig and Jason Schwartzman; and Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language film, The Room Next Door, starring Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton. The filmmaker says the story is set in New England and is about an imperfect mother and a resentful daughter.
Justin Kurzel’s 1980s crime thriller The Order, about a white supremacist group, stars Law as an FBI agent, Nicholas Hoult and Jurnee Smollett, while Brady’s The Brutalist with Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones and Joe Alwyn will also be in the running. Shot in 70mm, the 215-minute epic tells the story of a Hungarian Auschwitz survivor who travels to the United States.
Pitt and Clooney will reunite in Jon Watts’ Wolf, an adrenaline-fuelled action-comedy about bad guys that will screen out of competition.
Several interesting films screened in the Extra Horizons section included “September 5th,” about the televised broadcast of the Munich Olympics, starring Peter Sarsgaard; “King Ivory,” by John Swab with Ben Foster and James Badge Dale; and “Almost nothing,” a film by Alex Ross Perry about the California rock band Pavement, directed by Stephen Malkmus.
Venice will also screen Peter Weir’s 2003 epic “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” and present a lifetime achievement award.
Seven episodes of Alfonso Cuarón’s psychological thriller series Disclaimer will also premiere at the festival. The AppleTV+ show is based on a novel about a documentary journalist and the secrets she keeps. The series, starring Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline, will debut on the streaming service in October.
Nonfiction works not in the competition include “One on One: John and Yoko,” which recreates the years of the Beatles and their wives in New York; “Separated,” by Errol Morris, about the separation of immigrant children from their parents in the United States; “Russians at War,” by Anastasia Trofimova; “Israel Palestine on Swedish Television 1958-1989,” by Göran Hugo Olsson; “Riefenstahl,” about the German propagandist; and “What We Say Today,” another documentary focusing on the Beatles, a time capsule of their arrival in New York and their first concert at Shea Stadium.
Last year’s festival was held during an actors’ strike. Although some were scheduled to attend, such as “Ferrari” stars Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz and “Priscilla” stars Kelly Spaeny and Jacob Elordi, the festival lacked its usual steady supply of stars. But its impact on awards season was still significant: Venice’s seven world premieres received 24 Oscar nominations and five wins: four for “Poor Thing” and one for “The Amazing Story of Henry Sugar.”
Venice is the main jumping-off point for award winners and the first stop in a busy fall festival season, with the Toronto, Telluride and New York film festivals following closely behind.
The 81st festival will kick off on August 28 with the world premiere of Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.” All the main actors, including Michael Keaton, are expected to appear on the red carpet. The Venice Film Festival will run until September 7.
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