« Georges ! », « Brad ! ». On the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival, George Clooney and Brad Pitt walked like toys with long-lasting batteries… They never stop: a few steps to the left, then to the right, and in turn the cheers of the fans on one side or the other. This lasted a good forty-five minutes, Sunday 1is September, around 10 p.m., before the out-of-competition screening of Wolf. The police film by Jon Watts, director of the third Spider-Man film, Spider-Man : No Way Home (2021), works on self-mockery and features two lone wolves (George and Brad) who will have to learn to work together.
« This is my wife ! » (That’s my wife), Clooney said, not a little proudly, brandishing the hand of his wife, lawyer Amal Clooney, as the actor took his place in the Sala Grande. For his part, Brad Pitt made his relationship with jewelry designer Ines de Ramon official – while his ex-wife, Angelina Jolie, stars in the biopic Mariaby Pablo Larrain, in the running for the Golden Lion, she had already left Venice. Then the room went dark and the film began.
The action of Wolf focuses on a single night in New York, modeled on Collateral (2004) by Michael Mann, filmed in Los Angeles – actors in the car, then in the subway… The comparison ends there. Wolf is a pleasant entertainment, which struggles to find its rhythm, at least the first few minutes, with more or less successful gags and a botched plot with evil Albanians. But we appreciate the show of the young American actor Austin Abrams, 28 years old, whose character gallops for nearly two hours, in a crazy agility like Buster Keaton – he played in particular in the series Euphoria et The Walking Dead.
Intimate explosion
Wolf is one of those highly anticipated feature films at the Mostra. The kind of work that is known by the name of the director alone. In competition, we saw “Pablo Larrain” but also “Walter Salles” (I’m Still Here), the “Mouret” (Three Friends), and the “Almodovar” (The Room Next Door). All these films are not without merit, but remain in the hum of what their authors have already accomplished in the past. So no enthusiasm.
In the moving I’m Still HereWalter Salles is inspired by the story of the deputy Rubens Paiva (1929-1971), victim of the dictatorship, kidnapped by state agents, then tortured and killed. His wife, Eunice Paiva, while continuing to raise her children, reinvented herself and never stopped fighting to demand first the release of her husband, then the certificate of his death… The story focuses on the intimate explosion caused by the loss of this man: if the passage from happiness – a family dream listening to music on repeat – to darkness is quite effective, the drama becomes a little academic and sometimes turns into a tearjerker.
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