South Korean director of “Parasite” Bong Joon-ho will chair the jury at the upcoming Venice Film Festival, and the jury includes Chinese director Chloe Zhao among its members.

The course, which is the seventy-eighth, will be held between the first of next September and the eleventh of it in Venice. In 2019, “Parasite” won the Palme d’Or at the French Festival de Cannes, and in 2020 it achieved a historic double win at the Oscars, winning the Best Foreign Film and Best Film award.

In addition to Bong Joon-Ho on the panel, a number of big names will be on the panel, including Chinese director Chloe Zhao, whose movie “Nomadland” won three Oscars this year, one of which was in the best picture category.

Also on the committee is the French actress Virginie Evra, the heroine of Paul Verhoeven’s “Benedetta”, which was shown at the Cannes Film Festival recently, and deals with the same-sex relationship between two nuns in a medieval convent.

Also on the committee is the Italian director and screenwriter Saverio Costanzo, owner of the series “Lamica Geniale”, which is based on a book of the same title by Elena Ferrante.

The panel also includes British theater and film actress, singer and composer Cynthia Erivo, Canadian actress and producer Sarah Gidon, and Romanian director Alexandre Nanau.

“Space Jam: A New Legacy” grossed $31.6 million over the weekend, surprisingly taking the top spot in the US box office with the action-adventure movie “Black Widow.”

The film starring LeBron James, Cassandra Star, and Michael B Jordan, directed by Malcolm De Lee, while “Black Widow” came in second place, with revenues of $ 26.3 million, starring Scarlett Johansson and Florence Page and directed by Kate Shortland.

In third place, the horror movie “Escape Room: Tournament of Champions”, with revenues of $8.4 million, starring Taylor Russell, Holland Roden, and Isabel Foreman, directed by Adam Robitel.

The action and adventure movie “F9: The Fast Saga” came in fourth place, with revenues of $7.6 million. The film stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, and John Cena, and is directed by Justin Lin.

The second part of the animated movie (The Boss Baby 2), which revolves within the framework of a comedy adventure, came in fifth place, with revenues of 4.7 million dollars, starring Alec Baldwin, James Marsden, and Amy Sedaris, and directed by Tom McGrath.

Flag Day, Sean Penn’s latest film that he directed and starred in, received a standing ovation during its screening in Cannes, Saturday; The audience applauded for several minutes.

The 60-year-old American star attended the screening of his Palme d’Or nominated film, along with his daughter, who worked with her brother Huber Jack Penn, who starred for the first time in one of his father’s films.

“We trusted the script, with a story that can surprise us and hopefully the audience,” Sean Penn said upon arriving on the red carpet before the show.

The classic is based on the true story of a father named John Fogel (Sean Penn) who lives off petty theft and fails to provide the required education for his children.

With poignant and sometimes pathetic behavior, the father struggles to maintain a successful life in front of his children, but his past pursues him and overthrows all his efforts, as happened to him when he received threats from his creditors in front of his daughter. The latter (Dylan Penn) is trying to rebuild herself despite everything, and she does her best to re-establish the relationship with her father.

The events of the film take place between the seventies and nineties of the twentieth century. Digital techniques were used in half of Sean Penn’s scenes to reduce the appearance of the famous actor who previously appeared in my films (“Mystic River”, for which he won an Oscar in 2004), or “Milk”, for which he won a second Oscar in 2009. ).

Sean Penn has a long history with the festival, having first completed a quarter of a century ago as an actor in Nick Cassavetes’ She’s So Lovely and is competing for the third time in the race for the Palme d’Or as director.

American actor Matt Damon said Friday that he has completely immersed himself for weeks in life with workers in an oil rig in Oklahoma for his role as a troubled American man who travels to France to help his imprisoned daughter, in the new movie “Steelwater” based on a true story.

Damon, who returned a glimmer of Hollywood glamor to the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival after the Corona pandemic caused the cancellation of last year’s session, said he “spent time driving his car and living with oil workers in the state to understand the way his character thinks in the movie Stillwater.”

The film deals with the struggles that Baker faces in a foreign country as he attempts to overcome cultural and language barriers to help his daughter, played by Abigail Breslin.

In the out-of-competition film, Damon plays oil worker Bill Baker who travels to Marseille, France to visit his daughter, Alison, who has fallen out of love with him in prison.

Alison is serving a prison sentence for the murder of her roommate. The film is based on the story of American student Amanda Knox and her boyfriend, who was convicted and later released in the 2007 murder of British student Meredith Krecher in her apartment in Perugia, Italy.

Damon said during a press conference after the film’s world premiere at the world’s largest film festival, “I’ve been invited into their homes and for a barbecue, and someone would pull a guitar and start singing church hymns. It’s a very unique place and completely different from where I grew up, I opened [the experience] Eyes”.

Damon added that being a father helped him identify with Baker, who is trying to mend his broken relationship with his daughter. “Because I have kids, I feel like everything is more available in my career emotionally,” he said.

French director Leos Carax returned to the cinematic scene again, with his musical comedy “Annette”, after an absence of nearly 9 years, as his film was chosen to open the 74th session of the Cannes Film Festival.

The film tells the story of comedian Henry and international singer Anne, while the birth of their daughter shakes up their relationship, which turns into a tragic love story, as the film deals with nightlife and stardom, its rise and fall, as well as women’s violence and harassment, as well as a difficult crisis Reconciling fame and building a family

“Annette” starring French actress Marion Cotillard, American Adam Driver, and Simon Helberg, while Sparks wrote the script and music for the project.