Venice Film Festival: SA's Oliver Hermanus stuns with Living'South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus screened his film Living' at the Venice International Film Festival and received rave reviews!
by Naledi de Wee
06-09-2022 10:36
in Entertainment
South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus' film Living' screened at the Venice International Film Festival and received rave reviews. Image via Twitter @raimovie
This year, there are 23 films are competing for the Golden Lion, the top prize at the 2022 Venice International Film Festival. The festival, which opened on Wednesday 31 August, saw South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus screen his film, Living, starring Sex Education star Aimee Lou Wood and veteran actor Bill Nighly. Living screened on Wednesday 31 August and has since received rave reviews from film critics in Venice.
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OLIVER HERMANUS' LIVING' AT THE VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL Oliver Hermanus' Living comes after his 2019 biographical LGBTQI+ film, Moffie. The film, shot in the Western Cape, was nominated for the Horizons Award and the Queer Lion Award at the Venice International Film Festival in 2021.
Now, a year later, his 2021 film, Living, has broken an important rule at the Venice Film Festival which states that all films selected to be screened, must be world premieres. Hermanus' work is the only film that has already premiered at a different festival.
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Living is adapted from the 1952 Japanese drama film, Ikiru, directed by Akira Kurosawa. The South African actor's film follows Mr Williams (played by Bill Nighly), a British man who is facing a deadly illness.
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LIVING' SCREENS AT VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL The South African director's Living screened at the Venice International Film Festival on 31 August and received a four-star review from film critic Serena Seghedoni. The film has been hailed as a project that will have a huge emotional impact on the viewer.
Taking to Instagram on 2 September to celebrate the screening of Living, Hermanus described it as a wonderful day.
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Our first in-person audience seeing Living. Thank you La Biennale di Venezia for having us and Alexander McQueen for making me look the part. Onto the next.
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MORE HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE FILM FESTIVAL Grammy-winning musician Harry Styles made an appearance on the Venice International Film Festival red carpet for his film Don't Worry Darling alongside Florence Pugh.
Don't Worry Darling marks Styles' third film appearance after Dunkirk in 2017 and Marvel's Eternals film in 2021.
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Venice Film Festival: SA's Oliver Hermanus stuns with Living'South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus screened his film Living' at the Venice International Film Festival and received rave reviews! 
