Venice Film Festival 2017 red carpet heats up with for George Clooney’s ‘Suburbicon’
Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and global A-listers joined Clooney on the red carpet to celebrate Suburbicon’s premiere
Affable, handsome George Clooney was all charm at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, but don’t be fooled.
The actor says his latest directorial effort, Suburbicon, is an angry movie for an angry country — his own. It’s a twisted tale of darkness at the heart of the American dream.
“A lot of us are angry — angry at ourselves, angry at the way that the country is going, angry at the way the world is going,” Clooney told reporters Saturday in Venice, Italy, where Suburbicon is competing for the festival’s Golden Lion prize.
Clooney was joined by his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, on the Venice red carpet Saturday.
At a news conference earlier in the day, Clooney said the US now is “probably the angriest I have ever seen the country, and I lived through the Watergate period of time.”
“There is a dark cloud hanging over our country right now,” he said.
America’s divisions give an unnerving timeliness to Suburbicon. The satirical film noir stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore as residents of a seemingly idyllic — and all-white — 1950s suburban community that erupts in anger when a black family moves in.
