VENICE, Italy (AP) – The Venice Film Festival is bringing 11 days of red carpet premieres, innovative movies and Hollywood glamour to the Italian city. Here’s what has been catching the eye of The Associated Press:
FRANCES MCDORMAND HAILS WOMEN’S STORIES
Frances McDormand says her latest project, “Olive Kitteridge,” is unusual – its central character is a woman over 40.
The Academy Award-winning actress is in Venice with the four-part HBO miniseries, in which she plays an acerbic schoolteacher in a small Maine town full of troubled souls.
“It’s kind of a subversive act to tell a story of a woman past a certain age, to develop a four-hour movie based on a marriage and a story of two people past middle age,” McDormand told The Associated Press.