72nd Venice Film Festival Kicks off with an Opening Ceremony and ‘Everest

Based on real events, Baltasar Kormakur’s film follows two expeditions caught in a blizzard while attempting to reach the summit in 1996.

“I feel “Everest” is kind of in the identical vein because the earlier two”.

Jake Gyllenhal appears super suave in his tux while stepping out on the red carpet at the premiere showing of Everest throughout the 2015 Venice Film Festival on Wednesday. night (Sept. 2) in Venice, Italy.

Official trailer for Everest starring Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke and Keira Knightley.

“It s made of guests, representatives of the public institutions, authorities, whatever, not cinephiles, so you have to find a mix of elements that combine the many expectations of the audience”, he said.

That you get to the real core of who you are when you confront yourself with nature.

Written by William Nicholson, the co-writer of “Gladiator”, and Simon Beaufoy, whose scripts include endurance saga “127 Hours“, the film brutally depicts the effects of high altitude on the body. “Except add 29,000 feet to that”.

“People started getting really sick at that point”, Kormakur said. After all, who doesn’t thrill to vertiginous helicopter shots of icy slopes, who doesn’t love queasy 3D sequences where we swoop over and under spindly ladder bridges, who doesn’t appreciate the spectacle value of a roiling storm that blots out the blue sky with the force and speed of a megaton bomb? I wanted intimacy of the acting. Featuring Idris Elba and an otherwise largely unknown cast, the adaption of Uzodinma Iweala’s novel will be released in October simultaneously to a limited number of cinemas and to Netflix’s 65 million subscribers around the world.

Against a backdrop of fragmenting business models, most industry figures, Venice director Alberto Barbera among them, see the barriers between home and cinema viewing being eroded. In 2013, it launched Gravity on a course towards seven Academy Awards, and last year’s opener, the midlife-crisis comedy Birdman, soared on to win four Oscars including best picture.

Everest is one of two major productions being given a first screening during the festival. The Hollywood Reporter called it “gripping and immersive”, while London’s Time Out praised the “astonishing” craft of Kormakur’s 3-D spectacular. But as a functional adventure-cum-disaster flick it works hard not to let the grandeur of its setting become obscured by anything as extraneous as plot or human connection: “Everest” boasts drama so high it’s Himalayan, but the characterization is thinner than the air up there.

“It was attractive to sit down with them to hear how their father was to them, and to feel him through them”.