Here are IndieWire's 8 takeaways from the 2024 Venice Film Festival, which awarded the Golden Lion to Pedro Almodóvar's 'The Room Next Door.'

Filipino actress Janine Gutierrez could hardly believe it when she was in the same locale as Hollywood superstars as Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, Jude Law, Adrien Brody,

Elsewhere, the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize went to Vermiglio by Maura Delpero. Vincent Lindon won best actor for his performance in The Quiet Son, about a father and son separated by their political ideologies. The Special Jury Prize went to April, directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili.

From Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickinson to Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, this year’s festival was all about the duets.

Which brings us to this week’s topic: the Venice Film Festival. Teeming with examples of fantastic tailoring and missed marks in equal measure, the male darlings of fashion and film descended on the lagoon to show off their red carpet chops.

On the ground at the 81st Venice Film Festival, the main topic of conversation was the sweltering heat—blazing sunshine and a uniquely Venetian humidity which left me, like all the other journalists squeezed onto the water buses heading for the Lido,

Well, it was Italy and not France, but nonetheless the dress code for the jury at the Venice Film Festival, which wrapped last weekend, seemed to involve berets. Isabelle Huppert, president of the jury,

Here are the films which premiered on the Lido this year that you need to add to your watchlist... And the ones you'd do best to avoid.