Louis Garrel on Venice Comeback and 'The Dreamers' Legacy — SkimNews
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- Louis Garrel stars as Roman bookstore owner Matteo in Nanni Moretti's Venice competition entry 'It Will Happen Tonight,' Moretti's first film since a heart attack hospitalized him last year
- Garrel plays opposite Jasmine Trinca in a years-spanning romance whose flash-mob Rolling Stones dance scene he says he hated rehearsing because 'it's too ridiculous when I dance'
- Garrel broke out in Bernardo Bertolucci's 2003 May '68 drama 'The Dreamers,' which he calls a 'secret film' still passed among 18- and 19-year-olds two decades later
- Bertolucci is a major presence at this year's Venice through Luca Guadagnino's seven-hour documentary 'Joie de Vivre' and Andrea Pallaorro's 'The Echo Chamber,' adapted from Bertolucci's final script before his 2018 lung cancer death
- Garrel was 'shocked' by his sex scenes with Isabelle Huppert in Christophe Honoré's 2004 'Ma Mère,' a film he says US audiences are 'finally chattering about'
- Bertolucci told Garrel on the 'Dreamers' set that he 'stayed the son' of his poet father Attilio, describing it as 'a pain' but also the 'freedom of not being a father'
Why it matters: Garrel's Venice return as a best actor contender reframes a two-decade European career for U.S. audiences, just as the festival itself spotlights Bertolucci through a seven-hour documentary and a film adapted from his last script — and the source notes Gen Z rediscoveries of 'The Dreamers' and 'Ma Mère' are pulling his most provocative early roles into a new audience.
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