2 features about Iraq war on Venice Film Fest lineup
Last Updated: Thursday, July 26, 2007 | 4:58 PM ET
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Canadian director Paul Haggis's In the Valley of Elah, and Redacted by Brian De Palma, both films about the Iraq war, are among a slate of world premieres announced for the Venice Film Festival.
Movies by Ang Lee, Wes Anderson and Eric Rohmer are among the 22 films competing for the Golden Lion, the main prize at Venice.
Festival director Marco Mueller, announcing a full lineup Thursday in Rome, said all works in competition "stand out for their originality and personality."
Mueller's lineup is heavy on U.S. and U.K. films, which he described as offering a "great dose of freedom."
The opening film, previously announced, is Joe Wright's Atonement, an adaptation of the Ian McEwan novel starring Keira Knightley.
In the Valley of Elah, about a young soldier's mysterious disappearance after returning from Iraq, will also screen at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
De Palma's Redacted is a montage of soldiers' stories about the war.
Anderson, director of The Royal Tenenbaums, brings The Darjeeling Limited, a comedy about three brothers travelling by train through India, starring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody and Jason Schwartzman.
Other U.S. films include The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Andrew Dominik, and I'm Not There by Todd Haynes.
Among the U.K. entries are It's a Free World… a gritty social drama by Ken Loach, and Peter Greenaway's biopic of Rembrandt, The Night Watch.
In Sleuth, directed by Kenneth Branagh with a script by Harold Pinter, Michael Caine plays an aging writer battling for the love of a woman with a young actor played by Jude Law.
Lee, an Oscar winner for Brokeback Mountain, has made a Chinese-language spy thriller this time around. Lust, Caution is about a group of patriotic students who plot to assassinate the intelligence chief of China's Japan-backed Second World War-era government.
Bernardo Bertolucci will receive an honorary Golden Lion award during the Sept. 8 closing ceremony.
The award marks the 75th anniversary of the film festival, which is the world's oldest — but wasn't held during the war years.
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