PARIS (AFP) - The Venice Film Festival celebrates its 80th edition next week, but a Hollywood strike means many stars may be missing, leaving the spotlight to controversial directors like Roman Polanski and Woody Allen.
The festival, which kicks off on Wednesday, has become a key launchpad for Oscar campaigns, helped by glamorous shots of stars arriving by gondola.
Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz, who play the leads in the biopic"Ferrari" from director Michael Mann , have an exemption from the Screen Actor's Guild because the film was made outside the studio system, but may still stay home in solidarity. The only major casualty of the strikes has been"Challengers", a tennis romance starring Zendaya that was set as the opening night film but has been delayed to next year.With star gossip at a minimum, a lot of attention risks being absorbed by the inclusion of Woody Allen and Roman Polanski in the out-of-competition section.
French director Luc Besson , who was recently cleared of rape allegations, is in the main competition with"Dogman". He says Polanski's"The Palace" is full of"grotesque and surreal characters and aims to satirise humanity", and compared Allen's"Coup de Chance", his 50th film and first in French, to his earlier"Match Point".
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