As expected, Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux will make its debut in competition at the Venice Film Festival.
The Venice Film Festival line-up was announced earlier today. We won’t bore you with the entire list of the titles on show – you can find that here. But suffice it to say, the line-up is full of indie darlings as well as plenty of mainstream filmmakers bringing their latest projects to the world’s oldest film festival.
One of the biggest titles heading to the Lido is Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux. In 2019, Joker won the Golden Lion to everyone’s surprise, starting the film’s unlikely but hugely successful awards run which culminated in two Oscars.
The sequel is debuting in the festival’s prestige competition line-up, meaning it’s up for the Golden Lion again. If it were to win it, it would be the first time a sequel has won the prize in the festival’s history.
Other notable competition titles are Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, starring Daniel Craig, Halina Reijin erotic thriller Babygirl, Pablo Larrain’s Maria and Pedro Almodovar’s The Room Next Door. Expect to see these titles pop up in the awards conversation early next year.
Jon Watts’ Wolfs, which we got a trailer for in May, will screen out of competition. Venice will also host a special screening of Peter Weir’s Master & Commander: The Far Side Of The World. Weir is set to receive a lifetime achievement Golden Lion at this year’s festival.
The festival will open with the World Premiere of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which is also screening out of competition. The festival has rebranded itself as a little more mainstream in recent years, and has hosted world premieres for films like La La Land, Nomadland, The Whale and The Shape Of Water.
The line-up also includes series, all of them out of competition. The four series screened at the festival are Alfonso Cuaron’s AppleTV+ thriller Disclaimer, Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s The New Years, Thomas Vinterberg’s Families Like Ours and Joe Wright’s M – Il Figlio Del Secolo, also known as M. Son Of The Century, which is heading to Sky later this year.
