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"Julia"

Tilda Swinton stars in director Erick Zonca’s drama,”Julia”, about a 40-year-old alcoholic who, in an uncommon moment of sobriety, makes a last-ditch attempt to steer herself away from the unfortunate path that she has been on for years.

Although her old boyfriend Mitch tries to break through Julia’s haze from time to time, lately she has given up and feels she is simply one of life’s losers. When her finances begin to run dry, panic begins to set in and a desperate Julia turns to crime and finds herself on the run with a young boy named Tom after her plan completely falls apart. Rated R, Spanish with subtitles.

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THR sends word that Tilda Swinton will play the lead role in Lynne Ramsay’s We Need to Talk About Kevin for BBC Films.

The film is based on Lionel Shriver’s novel, which follows a smart, educated New York mother who does her best to raise a son she never wanted in the first place. However, he turns out to be difficult to live with and is at the center of the woman’s marital breakdown. Interestingly, he then goes on a killing spree at his high school with a crossbow.

Ramsay is best known for his work on Ratcatcher which chronicled the life of a boy in ‘70s Glasgow. Jennifer Fox will produce.

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“Burn After Reading” by the Coen Brothers opens the 65th Venice Film Festival.

As usual “Burn” is a dark spy comedy,  and stars Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton.  

If you can make the festival, the film comes to the U.S. in September.  

There has been a lot of buzz about “Burn,” which the Coens wrote and directed. The story pivots on an ousted CIA official, Malkovich, whose memoir falls into the hands of two Washington, D.C., gym employees, who decide to attempt to exploit their find.

 ”Burn” marks the second consecutive year a film from the Working Title stable opens Venice, following “Atonement” last year.

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Academy Award winning actress, Tilda Swinton,  is set to star in an Italian movie with director Luca Guadagino’s “Io sono l’amore” (I Am Love). The movie is a romantic drama where Swinton plays a foreign society matron in Milan. She falls for a young chef.

Guadagnino, whose previous credits include Swinton starrer “The Protagonists” and Sony’s “Melissa P.,” will start shooting the Italo-language film in Milan this summer. I wish I could go – Milan!

Guadagnino explained “L’amore” storyline to Variety, “the irreparable consequences brought about by love in a high-bourgeois family.”

Joining Swinton is Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher. More casting will take place.

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