Comandante, Venice review: big muscles, bad history – The Telegraph
Brooding clouds have gathered over Venice – and never simply those that introduced rain sluicing down on the heads of arriving critics as they scuttled down the alleyways to their lodges final evening. The eightieth version of town’s movie pageant is unfolding beneath unusual situations, because of the continued Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strike.
In the long run, just one studio, Warner Bros, ended up pulling a movie from the programme outright. That was Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers, a love-triangle drama set on this planet {of professional} tennis, which was initially going to open the pageant this night.
However the place is a ghost city, with solely a handful of stars flying in to advertise their work, having secured waivers from the unions first. One in every of them is Adam Driver, who stars with Penélope Cruz in Ferrari, a racing biopic directed by Michael Mann and on account of premiere tomorrow. However Bradley Cooper, whose Leonard Bernstein biopic Maestro screens on Saturday, is regarded as staying away, as are Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe and the remainder of the forged of Poor Issues, the hotly anticipated Alasdair Grey adaptation that performs on Friday.
In lieu of the standard shiny gondola arrivals, we’re making do with trailers. The one for The Killer, an existential suspense thriller from David Fincher which performs on Sunday, was launched on-line earlier this week. Its star Michael Fassbender, now performing once more after an unlikely sabbatical driving at Le Mans, sports activities a heck of a glance in it: a beige cagoule over a darkish Hawaiian shirt, topped with sun shades and a bucket hat. Not fairly #redcarpetready, however this yr we’ll take what we will get.
And for the opening movie, what we acquired was Comandante: a gruff and glowering submarine thriller from Italy’s Edoardo De Angelis. Set throughout the Second World Struggle’s early years, it gives a number of sweaty, string-vesty, bulgy-bare-armsy scenes from the lifetime of the real-life submarine commander Salvatore Todaro, performed right here by Pierfranceso Favino. It isn’t dreadful, however it appears unlikely to play in British cinemas any time quickly, and was certainly meant for a much less uncovered slot earlier than being drafted as Challengers’ substitute.
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