Written by Kianna Best on Aug 1, 2024. Posted in Awards and Festivals

Kevin Costner starrer to premiere at Venice Film Festival

Horizon: An American Saga- Chapter Two is set to premiere out of competition at the 81st Venice Festival on 7 September. The Kevin Costner starrer and directed feature also stars Sienna Miller, Jena Malone and Danny Huston. Chapter One will also screen out of competition following its premiere in Cannes earlier this year. The 2024 Venice Film Festival will take place from 28 August until 7 September.

 

 

“My dream was always to show Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter Two at the Venice Film Festival,” commented Costner. “The fact that now they have decided to show Chapter One earlier in the day and then the World Premiere of Chapter Two that evening shows not only their belief in how the two films work together but their support of a director’s vision. I’m indebted to Alberto Barbera for his courage and leadership in committing to this cinematic journey.  It is with gratitude and excitement that I return to the Venice Film Festival. Long live the movies and those willing to stand for them.”

 

“It is a great pleasure and honor to host the world premiere of the Chapter Two of Horizon: An American Saga, alongside its Chapter One,” stated festival director Alberto Barbera. “This late addition to the lineup of the Venice Film Festival pays a heartfelt and respectful tribute to the visionary project of a great actor and director, who invested himself in the epic reconstruction of the years crucial to the founding of the country, digging beyond myth in search of authenticity capable of restoring a piece of history in its complex and contradictory reality».

 

Costner returns to the festival circuit with Horizon: An American Saga after its first chapter’s premiere was met with a standing ovation at this years Cannes International Film Festival. Chapters One and Two chronicle the Civil War expansion and settlement in the American West. As well as starring and directing for both films, Costner is credited as a co-writer alongside Jon Baird and produces through his Territory Pictures.

 

This year’s Venice Film Festival will also see the premieres of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice from the mind of Tim Burton, marking the return of Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder from the original 1988 flick, and Brad Pitt and George Clooney’s Wolf, directed by Jon Watts. Other projects across the fiction out of competition line up include L’Orto Americano, Se Posso Permettermi- Chapter II, Il Tempo Che Ci Vuole, Phantosmia, Maldoror, Broken Rage, Baby Invasion, Cloud, Finalement, and Allégorie Citadine,  In addition to the screening of his project Finalement, Claude Lelouch will also be honoured with the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award.

 

Image courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia

 

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