HanWay Films has boarded sales on Luca Guadagnino’s documentary Joie De Vivre ahead of its world premiere at Venice film festival next week.
Joie De Vivre explores the life and work of Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci, using archive, contributors including Martin Scorsese, David Cronenberg, Margot Robbie and Jeremy Thomas, and Guadagnino’s own perspective.
The seven-hour director’s cut of the film will play in two parts at Venice, in the Films on Films strand of the Venice Open – Out of Competition section.
The first part will play on September 8 and second part on September 9. Guadagnino will receive the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award before the screening of the first part.
Joie De Vivre is produced by Italy’s MeMo Films, the production company co-founded by entrepreneur and fashion designer Gabriele Moratti and producer-distributor Francesco Melzi d’Eril. The company has previously collaborated with Guadagnino on films including Call Me By Your Name and Suspiria.
“Luca has completely freed himself of all documentary filmmaking conventions,” said HanWay Films CEO Gabrielle Stewart. “The result is a unique and daring exploration of cinema through the lens of Bertolucci. The journey Luca takes you on feels both epic and deeply personal.
“There are so many elements to enjoy and discover: whether you are engrossed by the free flowing intellectual dialogue between some of cinema’s great directors; identifying films you want to revisit or watch for the first time thanks to the uniquely long clips; an opportunity to dive into the variety of views and thoughts around some of Bertolucci’s most controversial and infamous scenes; or just engaging with Luca himself, a hungry student of Cinema.”
HanWay Films has two further titles at Venice: Werner Herzog’s Competition entry Bucking Fastard, and Wim Wenders’ 3D documentary From Inside Out: The Architecture Of Peter Zumthor.
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