The best movies driven by obsession keep viewers riveted and glued to the edge of their seats, even as they are also cautionary tales about how obsession can destroy lives and leave wreckage in its way.
Lindon stars in a trio of featured films, along with the New York premieres of new projects by Olivier Assayas, Isabelle Huppert, and Bertrand Bonello.
Huppert tells IndieWire about her third collaboration with the tireless Korean director, "A Traveler's Needs," this time with a bare-bones crew and as a character who day-drinks while adrift in Seoul.
Huppert talks to IndieWire about the connections between "Babygirl" and "The Piano Teacher" and addresses an alleged feud that occurred with fellow Venice juror James Gray at Cannes in 2009.
The Venice Film Festival launched into its 81st edition with the world premiere of "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" and words from jury president Isabelle Huppert and Golden Lion honoree Sigourney Weaver.
As the success of such fiction demonstrates — including the hit series Baby Reindeer on Netflix — there is an audience hungry to experience, if just vicariously, the thrill and the danger of obsession.
The Oscar nominee tells IndieWire why she's always still looking for "a dialogue with a director" like Jean-Paul Salomé for her twisty new true-crime thriller, or Paul Verhoeven, whose "Elle" echoes this film.