Venice Film Festival to Open With Hirokazu Kore-eda's 'The Truth'

), directed by Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda will open this year's Venice International Film Festival.

It stars Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke and will screen in the competitionof the 76th Venice Festival, which runs August 28 – September 7, 2019. The fest is directed by Alberto Barbera and organized by the Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta. “It is with great joy that I have learned that my new film, La vérité, has been selected to open the Official Competition of the Venice Film Festival," Kore-eda said. "I am extremely honored. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the entire staff of the festival. We shot the movie in ten weeks last fall in Paris. As officially announced, the cast is prestigious but the film itself recounts a small family story that takes place primarily inside a house.

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