With a title that’s sure to confuse, Official Competition premieres at the 78th Venice International Film Festival on Sept. 4 — in official competition for the coveted Golden Lion. The comedy, directed by Argentineans Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat, stars Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz as a movie star and director who team up to make a billionaire’s dream of producing an award-winning film come true. Banderas’ first time in official competition at Venice came in 1999 with his directorial debut, Crazy in Alabama, starring his former wife, Melanie Griffith. (The couple met on the set of the 1995 screwball comedy Two Much and married the following ...
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