ITALY: Anne Hathaway arrives at the premiere of 'Rachel Getting Married' at the Venice film festival

Record ID: 220505

  • Title: ITALY: Anne Hathaway arrives at the premiere of 'Rachel Getting Married' at the Venice film festival
  • Date: 4th September 2008
  • Summary: VENICE LIDO, ITALY (SEPTEMBER 3, 2008) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR VENICE FILM FESTIVAL VENUE BANNER AT THE FESTIVAL PALACE ACTRESS ANNE HATHAWAY EMERGING FROM CAR VARIOUS OF HATHAWAY SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS HATHAWAY WITH FANS HATHAWAY WAVING HATHAWAY HAVING HER PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY FANS HATHAWAY WALKING ON RED CARPET PHOTOGRAPHERS ON PODIUM HATHAWAY ON RED CARPET / HATHAWAY'S DRESS PHOTOGRAPHERS FILMING HATHAWAY HATHAWAY BLOWING A KISS TOWARDS FANS HATHAWAY POSING WITH 'RACHEL GETTING MARRIED' DIRECTOR, JONATHAN DEMME AND SCRIPT WRITER JENNY LUMET FANS SHOUTING AT HATHAWAY HATHAWAY BLOWING KISSES HATHAWAY ON THE RED CARPET HATHAWAY AND DEMME ENTERING HALL
  • Embargoed: 19th September 2008 13:00
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  • Location: Italy
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVA80U9SPCOFLKK7X8H9WS8SWVQ1
  • Story Text: "Rachel Getting Married", one of the five American films in competition at the festival, premieres in Venice.
    Actress Anne Hathaway on Wednesday (September 3) arrived at the red carpet of the Venice film festival for the opening of her latest film, "Rachel Getting Married". Hathaway was greeted by hundreds of fans at the Venice Lido, where the festival takes place, and then posed for photographers with the film's director Jonathan Demme.
    Hathaway takes on an unusually dark role as a former drug addict returning home for her sister's wedding in "Rachel Getting Married", a new film about a dysfunctional family haunted by the death of a child.
    Tensions explode as family and friends gather under the same roof for a weekend of celebrations, with Oscar-winning Demme building up the contrast between the household's painful history and preparations for the happy event.
    Hathaway, best known for her roles in "The Princess Diaries"
    and "The Devil Wears Prada", stepped away from fairytale and comedy to play Kym, a young woman tortured by guilt who has spent the past 10 years in and out of rehabilitation centres.
    Her sharp tongue and confrontational attitude serve as the catalyst for the family drama to unfold, particularly as she is forced to face her sister Rachel and her own past.
    "Rachel Getting Married", written by Sidney Lumet's daughter Jenny, uses long, loosely staged scenes accompanied by live music and documentary-style camera work to create a home movie atmosphere. Demme, whose 1991 "The Silence of the Lambs" won five Oscars, has focused primarily on making documentary films in recent years -- including two on singer Neil Young.

    "Rachel Getting Married" also stars three-time Oscar nominee Debra Winger in a brief but intense role as the family's mother, while the film's big set pieces -- the rehearsal dinner, the wedding and the dance reception party -- are populated with Demme's own friends, family and colleagues.
    Winger, who returned to film acting in 2001 after a six-year hiatus that inspired a documentary about ageing in Hollywood, did not travel to Venice.

    "Rachel Getting Married" is one of five U.S. films in Venice's 21-title main competition, that will wind up on Saturday with the award ceremony.
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