Affleck's 'Company' Earns 4.5-Minute Venice Ovation — SkimNews
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- Casey Affleck premiered his directorial effort 'Company' at the Venice Film Festival inside the Sala Grande on Tuesday, where it earned a 4½-minute ovation that was still ongoing when he and the cast exited the theater.
- Nick Nolte drew an extra-rousing cheer when presented at the start of the screening, and Ben Affleck attended as a supporter, sitting with the cast and filming the audience below.
- 'Company' is structured as nested narratives: in 1975 a woman named Evelyn arrives at a holiday gathering and tells of a hermit who rescued an actress during a 1953 Colorado blizzard, who in turn recounts a frontier tale of a farming couple and a troubled drifter amid grisly murders.
- Affleck told the official press conference the film is not 'explicitly political' but said he 'was responding in part to all the raging conflicts in the world, and to things inside myself,' framing it as a 'meditation on grief, vengeance, forgiveness.'
- The cast includes Ben Mendelsohn, Adelaide Clemens, Scoot McNairy, Emily Alyn Lind, Caylee Cowan, and Affleck's children Atticus Affleck and Indiana Affleck, with the screenplay co-written by Affleck and Ron Hansen.
Why it matters: The film marks Affleck's first directorial outing since 'Light of My Life' in 2019 and his return to Venice as a filmmaker, produced through Spooky Pictures with a notable family-crossover cast including his brother and two of his children.
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