Julianne Moore heads the jury at the Venice Film Festival. Next to her, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro

Julianne Moore is the sixth actress in history to be honored to lead the jury of the main competition, the oldest film festival on the Old Continent. Before her, the jury chairs were equally famous movie stars: Irene Pappas, Gong Lee, Catherine Deneuve, Annette Bening and Cate Blanchett. The latter also chaired the jury of the Cannes Festival.

In addition, this year’s Venice jury will also include directors: Mariano Cohen from Argentina, Leonardo Di Costanzo from Italy, 2021 Golden Lion winner, Audrey Diwan from France, Spanish director Rodrigo Soroguin and Iranian actress Leila Hatami. Like writer and screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro.

The 79th Venice International Film Festival will run from August 31 to September 10.

Julianne Moore, the big American movie star, winner of an Oscar for the role of a professor of linguistics with Alzheimer’s in “Butterfly Still Alice”, calls herself a veteran of the Venice Film Festival. Indeed, the festival in Lido appreciated it much earlier, before Hollywood knew about her talent.

In Venice in 1993, she and the rest of the cast received a special Volpi Cup for her role in Robert Altman’s “Shortcuts”. A decade later, in 2002, she was recognized as the best actress at the festival, receiving the Volpi Cup for the second time for her role in Todd Haynes’ “Far from Heaven”. She later received one of her four Academy Award nominations for this role.

The organizers of the Venice Festival, criticized for years for the lack of films by female directors, did everything in their power to make us note that they care and appreciate the presence of women. Two years ago, the jury was led by Cate Blanchett, and this time we have Julianne Moore. Perhaps that’s why the controversial Golden Lion was awarded last year to a woman – Audrey Dewan and her movie It Happened, which tells the story of a student set in the 1960s who becomes an unwanted pregnancy and decides to end it nonetheless. Prohibition of abortion. Although the film was received by critics with mixed feelings, it was by far the most feminist film in the competition.

The organizers have not yet announced the list of titles that will compete for the Golden Lion, the main prize for the Venice event. This will be the main message. The media is expected to score if the event’s longtime artistic director, Alberto Barbera, made sure this time around that the number of films made by women was not symbolic.

It is also known that the woman will also receive an honorary Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement. what is it! She will be an icon of French and world cinema, Catherine Deneuve.

It is also worth noting the presence of the 2017 Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro on the jury, which is not often the case at film festivals. Best known to Tenth Muse fans as the author of the novel “Crumbs of the Day”, adapted by James Ivory, he was nominated for eight Oscars and was made famous by the brilliant actors Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins.

Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of eight novels, the most famous of which, in addition to “Girls of the Day”, are “Painter of the Deceptive World”, “Don’t Abandon Me”, “Buried Giant” and “Claire and the Sun”.

The writer is very lucky to film his novels in Great Britain. “Don’t Give Up on Me” starring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield was also very popular. Over time, Ishiguro also began writing for cinema. His original screenplays include “The White Countess” by James Ivory, and “The Sad Music of the World” by Canadian independent director Guy Madin.

In the coming days, we should get acquainted with the list of films that qualified for the main competition of the 79th Venice Film Festival.