Venice: ‘Lovers’ Director Nicole Garcia on the ‘Harmful Bite of Love’

Ben Croll Director Yulene Olaizola might have already worked on a number of films over the course of her still young career, but nothing could prepare the Mexican filmmaker for what she would encounter with her latest, “Tragic Jungle.”A 1920’s-set, mythology-influenced chase film set on the verdant border between Mexico and Belize, this Mexican-French-Colombian co-production, which premiered in Venice earlier this month before heading to San Sebastian and New York, marked a serious scale-up for

Love Island 2020 winners Paige Turley and Finley Tapp are currently enjoying a loved-up holiday in Pilos, Greece.The reality stars have been spending their days soaking up the sun in the luxurious Westin Resort and enjoying fancy dinners in the evening.The couple are staying near to the ocean, and last week the former girlfriend of Lewis Capaldi shared a snap of herself looking chic on the beach in a large black straw sun hat and a pink swimming costume.

Mark David Film and television actor Greg Kinnear, nominated for an Oscar in 1998 for the award-winning film “As Good as it Gets” and, more recently, co-star of the British feature-length dramedy “Misbehaviour,” in which he portrays late showbiz legend Bob Hope, has hung an almost $6.6 million price on his celeb-pedigreed home in L.A.’s rustic and swish Mandeville Canyon area.

Cate Blanchett looks stunning while walking the red carpet at the closing ceremony of the 2020 Venice Film Festival on Saturday (September 12) in Venice, Italy.

Alissa Simon Film CriticThe winner of Karlovy Vary’s East of the West prize for her debut, “The Wednesday Child” (2015), Hungarian multihyphenate Lili Horvát screens “Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time” at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival after its world premiere in Venice Days.

Peter White Television EditorOzzy Osbourne has had much of his life captured on film, whether it was early shows from Black Sabbath, the pioneering heavy metal band formed in the late 1960s, or MTV’s reality series The Osbournes.His story, from biting the head off a bat at a show in Iowa to urinating on the Alamo, has also been told numerous times in Behind The Music-style tales.

Amongst the upcoming films that suffered at the hands of the COVID-19 pandemic was Tom Cruise starrer Mission: Impossible 7. In February, production was supposed to kickstart in Venice before moving to Rome.

Nathan Grossman had no idea what he was in for. Back in August 2018, the Swedish documentarian heard from a friend about a teenager who had decided to stage a protest — a "school strike" — in front of the Swedish Parliament, demanding action on climate change.

Filmmaker Kornél Mundruczó is no stranger to the film festival circuit, with his 2005 film “Johanna” screening at the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, before “White God” took home the Prize Un Certain Regard later in 2014. “White God” was even selected to be Hungary’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 87th Academy Awards.

Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentSusanna Nicchiarelli’s “Nico, 1988,” about the German singer who performed with the Velvet Underground, made a splash in Venice in 2017 when it took top honors in the cutting-edge Horizons section.

Rachel Lindsay is confident that both Tayshia Adams and Clare Crawley can find love on season 16 of The Bachelorette.“The beauty of Tayshia [is] Tayshia has been married before. So Tayshia, like Clare, is not here to play any games,” the 35-year-old reality TV personality exclusively told Us Weekly, noting that ABC has yet to confirm that the 29-year-old phlebotomist took over for the 39-year-old hairdresser.

Manori Ravindran International EditorRoger Michell, the British director behind Venice competition title “The Duke” and films such as “Notting Hill” and “Venus,” says he feels “great sympathy” for the BBC and its ongoing tensions with the U.K.

A good ol' fashioned doomed romance replete with eye-popping exotic locations, a traffic-stopping cast, lavish wines, great catering, guns, drugs, sex and lies, French actress turned director Nicole Garcia’s latest effort, Lovers (Amants), delivers the genre’s essential items in a slick film noir throwback carried by a trio of strong performances.

Guy Lodge Film CriticIf adultery was as drab and zestless a business as it’s made to look in “Lovers,” nobody would engage in it — in which case Nicole Garcia’s languid, boilerplate-stylish romantic melodrama would gain at least a measure of the novelty it so sorely lacks. Unspooling in competition at the Venice Film Festival, this French three-hander offers an old-fashioned blend of desire, betrayal, criminal activity and young, naked, attractively entwined bodies.

Taylor Hill stuns on the red carpet with a pretty Etro gown for the 2020 Venice Film Festival opening ceremony on Wednesday (September 2) in Venice, Italy.

Jacob Elordi and Taylor Zakhar Perez as romantic interests for Joey King's character, Elle, and real life certainly imitates art in this case.When the first flick landed on Netflix in 2018, Elordi and King were about one year into an off-camera relationship that mirrored their characters' onscreen one. «We were so close and throughout filming, I was just best friends with Jacob,» King told in June 2018. «I guess there was no moment, but I feel like the friendship kind of naturally was like, 'Oh,

Also Read: What WWE Superstar Paul 'The Big Show' Wight Learned About Acting From Peter Dinklage, ThanosAlong with Wight, the sitcom starred Allison Munn, Reylynn Caster, Juliet Donenfeld and Lily Brooks O’Briant.Created by Josh Bycel and Jason Berger, “The Big Show Show” launched its first and only season April 6.Berger confirmed Monday on Twitter that the show had been canceled, tweeting: “on behalf of the staff, cast, and crew of #thebigshowshow…thank you to everyone who watched either with

Joe Otterson TV ReporterBoth “The Big Show Show” and “Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love” have not been renewed at Netflix.However, both shows taped Christmas specials prior to the pandemic, with both set to air this December.

Nellie Andreeva Co-Editor-in-Chief, TVEXCLUSIVE: Netflix has opted not to order second seasons of multi-camera sitcoms Ashley Garcia: Genius in Love and The Big Show Show. Fans of both series will get one more original episode of each as the streamer had commissioned special Christmas episodes of both shows to be released this December.Your Complete Guide to Pilots and Straight-to-Series ordersThese are not series finales.