At the Venice Film Festival, monsters create

Andiamo! From August 28th to September 6th, it's happening at the Venice Lido. Hollywood has put on its best clothes, three French films are in the running for the Golden Lion. Particularly frightening this year, the selection lines up a number of marquee names from auteur cinema, the kind you'd usually expect to find on the Croisette - from Jim Jarmush to Gus Van Sant, from Benny Safdie to Kathryn Bigelow... In short, the Mostra has put amphetamines in its Spritz. A reputation has stuck to the festival in recent years, due to less strict regulations than at Cannes regarding the admission of platform films in competition. In an often forgettable genre, the works are said to shine less brightly at the finish than their star casts - a prophecy belied here and there by impressive programming coups: T á r , The Brutalist , Sa