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, premiered at Sundance to full-throated acclaim and landed a hefty distribution deal with Fox Searchlight. But resurfaced allegations of past sexual misconduct derailed the film’s release. The actor-director returns three years later with a fresh attempt to put that episode behind him, playing a Marine veteran trying to mend broken fences with his son when tragedy strikes.
, but the eternally controversial exiled director will be a vivid presence in Venice with his drama adapted from the Robert Harris novel about a late-19th century French Jewish artillery officer falsely accused of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island based on doctored evidence. Emmanuelle Seigner, Louis Garrel and Jean Dujardin head the cast.
Olivier Assayas undertook an electrifying investigation into political terrorism in South America with the 2010 miniseriesThe French writer-director returns to parallel territory and reunites with the star of that project, Edgar Ramirez, who appears alongside Penelope Cruz and Gael Garcia Bernal in this true story of Cuban spies in 1990s Florida, sent to infiltrate organizations carrying out anti-Castro strikes.
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