The two stars, who star in the film Wolfs, caused a sensation at the Venice Film Festival on Sunday, staging their “bromance”.
Arriving by water taxi, then signing autographs with smiles on the Lido before the screening of their “buddy movie”: George Clooney and Brad Pitt lived up to their reputation as the coolest sixty-somethings in Hollywood in Venice.
The two stainless stars came to present on Sunday, out of competition, the new film which brings them together, Wolf. A duo return to the Lido, sixteen years after the comedy “Burn After Reading” by the Coen brothers.
In the idyllic setting of the lagoon, Clooney and Pitt previously took part in the crowd bath, in complete relaxation: the former in a light grey suit, white shirt wide open, the latter in a sky blue jacket over a simple white T-shirt.
Smiles were also present at the film’s press conference, where the two actors cracked jokes – Clooney in particular, who is 63, compared to Pitt’s 60, joked about his age.
“I’m much younger than him!”
The biggest difference between the two stars? “I’m a lot younger than him! You wouldn’t think so, but I am,” Clooney joked, pointing to his partner in crime. “He’s 74 and still lucky to be working!”
“We’re on the decline!” George Clooney also quipped when the press asked him how it was that a film with two such big stars was virtually denied a theatrical release, in favor of being released online on Apple TV+.
In France, the film will be available only on this platform by subscription, from September 27.
Far from having the comic force of the Coen brothers or the energy of the heist film trilogy Ocean’s Eleven (2001-2007), Wolf (the incorrect plural in English of the word wolf, which is normally written “Wolves”) is an action comedy that plays on the complicity and self-mockery of the two stars.
Director Jon Watts – three Spiderman to his credit – entrusts them with the role of two “lone wolves”, outlaws, charged for their clients with cleaning up all traces of a crime.
But now the two characters find themselves mandated for the same job, to get rid of the body of a young boy found in his underwear in the hotel room of an influential magistrate. Clooney and Pitt, colleagues in spite of themselves, are engaged in a crazy night, where everything will go off the rails.
“As soon as I read the script, as soon as we got on set, I felt this way of joking between us, of bickering all the time, it was so obvious,” George Clooney said at a press conference.
Beyond this light interlude, Sunday was marked by the return of actor Adrien Brody (The pianist) in a monumental 3.5-hour film that revisits the American myth of integration and its flaws through the journey of an architect who survived the Shoah.
This feature film, The Brutalistmade a strong impression, and is in the running for the Golden Lion. The race to succeed Poor creatures with Emma Stone, awarded last year, remains very open.
Angelina Jolie transformed
Angelina Jolie’s acting performance as Maria Callas in a biopic focusing on the singer’s final days (Maria) was noticed, as was Nicole Kidman’s involvement in Babygirla film that divides by wanting to subvert a hackneyed genre, the erotic thriller.
Before presenting its prize list on September 7, the jury chaired by Isabelle Huppert must still discover the first American film, in English, by Pedro Almodovar (The room next door), with Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, or Queeran adaptation of William S. Burroughs, a figure of the beat generation with a Daniel Craig (“James Bond”) who is apparently cast against type.
Not to mention the Joker sequel Madness for twowith Lady Gaga, the first part of which won the Golden Lion five years ago.
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