Aronofsky's latest triumph, The Wrestler won the top award at the Venice Film Festival in 2008, where it debuted and assuredly awed. As an avid fan of Mr. Aronofsky's work (even the the much reviled The Fountain is such an incoherently interesting feature, it's hard to completely loathe, I'd say-- I think it flawed, but hypnotic), I'm anxious and nervous about this one, but since he's proven such an assured, often brilliant filmmaker, I think it's safe to say, that at the very least, there's a nugget of something here. Just as so, I'm always curious about the major film festival, and the big ones (Venice and Toronto) are just over a month away. Venice starts September 1 to September 11.
While other titles haven't been made official yet, speculation is that Julian Schnabel's latest, Miral, his follow-up to 2007's The Diving Bell & the Butterfly starring Frieda Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) will debut as well, as well as Sofia Coppola's latest, Somewhere, starring Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning (remember Lost in Translation made it's big splash in 2003 at Venice for a sense of history), as well as Tom Hopper's (HBO's John Adams), The King's Speech starring Colin Firth and Helena Bonham Carter. The big question however is if Terrence Malick's latest, The Tree of Life, might make it's premiere at Venice, after missing on Cannes. I have a feeling I may never see it!
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