Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity To Open 2013 Venice Film Festival
Gravity, the new, much-awaited film directed by Alfonso Cuarón (Y tu mamá también, Children of Men), starring Sandra Bullockand George Clooney, is the opening film (Out of Competition) of the 70th Venice International Film Festival (August 28 – September 7, 2013). The world premiere of Gravity will be screened in 3D on August 28th in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema at the Lido, following the opening ceremony.
Gravity marks Cuaron’s first directorial feature since the underrated 2006 Children Of Men but the Mexican filmmaker and many of his crew have a successful history with major Italian film festival. Children of Men won the Golden Osella for Best Cinematography, honoring Emmanuel Lubezki (who is also working on Gravity), Jonás Cuarón, the director’s son and co-writer made an successful directorial debut in 2007 with Año Uña but go back further to 2011 and Y tu mamá también winning the Golden Osella for Best Screenplay and the Marcello Mastroianni Award.
In Gravity Sandra Bullock stars as Dr Ryan Stone a scientist on a mission with George Clooney as veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky whose ship is involved in a mid flight disaster which the pair find themselves in a race against time.
The UK Trailer (see below) was a perfect tonic for the film not giving anything away like many films seem to do these days. The festival is the perfect place to launch the film and if all things go well critically Gravity could create the perfect buzz before the film arrive in Autumn. Could we also be looking at one of the big winners in the Awards season especially the Oscars? The Master opened last years festival finishing the awards season with a good amount of awards?
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Gravity is in Cinemas October 18th, 2013, it will be released in 3D and 2D and IMAX
Synopsis
Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone—tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness.
The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth…and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left.
But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.
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