The 69th Venice Film Festival, which officially kicked off on Wednesday August 29, 2012 at the Palazzo del Cinema in Italy, was opened by The Reluctant Fundamentalist, a big-screen adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's acclaimed 2007 novel.
The Guardian selected it as one of the books that defined the decade. And the show was stolen by the leading actress Kate Hudson.
The actress, who looked fit and fabulous just 13 months after giving birth to her second child, was joined by her co-stars Ray Liotta and Michael Shannon, as well as director Ariel Vroman.
Brit Marling also showed up to support the film. This was the most scene at Palazzo del Cinema when Kate Hudson and fiancé Muse frontman Matt Bellamy shared a romantic kiss.
Kate was looking absolutely stunning and glamorous while wearing a Swarovski-crystal-embellished Atelier Versace gown. She completed her look with Edie Parker clutch, Versace heels and the dazzling Fabergé jewels.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist REVIEW:
Britain's Riz Ahmed plays a young Pakistani man who becomes a high flier on Wall Street before being radicalised in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Kate Hudson plays a role as a New York artist who may or may not be his salvation. It is the first movie co-production between India and Pakistan and also features Hollywood actors Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber and Kate Hudson.
Mira Nair:
Nair, the 54-year-old Indian director of Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay, said at a press conference, “We all know there’s been an enormous schism, a wall between East and West in the past decade. I wanted to bring some sense of bridge-making, some sense of healing that goes beyond stereotype.
I believe I’ve been put on this earth to tell stories of people like me who live between worlds. Suddenly New York became a place where people who looked like us were ‘the other’ and that was painful. Unlike what (former US President George W.) Bush said: ‘You’re either with us or against us’, I believe there is a middle ground".
Riz Ahmed:
"It's a human story of a young man from Pakistan who dreams of America, who loves it, who pursues the American dream and who has it all - Princeton, Wall Street - then suddenly the world changes and he is looked at as the 'other."
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Directed by: Mira Nair
Written by: Mohsin Hamid, Ami Boghani, William Wheeler
Based on: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Music by: Michael Andrews
Release date: August 29, 2012 (Venice Film Festival)
Country: United States
Language: English
The Guardian selected it as one of the books that defined the decade. And the show was stolen by the leading actress Kate Hudson.
The actress, who looked fit and fabulous just 13 months after giving birth to her second child, was joined by her co-stars Ray Liotta and Michael Shannon, as well as director Ariel Vroman.
Brit Marling also showed up to support the film. This was the most scene at Palazzo del Cinema when Kate Hudson and fiancé Muse frontman Matt Bellamy shared a romantic kiss.
Kate was looking absolutely stunning and glamorous while wearing a Swarovski-crystal-embellished Atelier Versace gown. She completed her look with Edie Parker clutch, Versace heels and the dazzling Fabergé jewels.
The Reluctant Fundamentalist REVIEW:
Britain's Riz Ahmed plays a young Pakistani man who becomes a high flier on Wall Street before being radicalised in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Kate Hudson plays a role as a New York artist who may or may not be his salvation. It is the first movie co-production between India and Pakistan and also features Hollywood actors Kiefer Sutherland, Liev Schreiber and Kate Hudson.
Mira Nair:
Nair, the 54-year-old Indian director of Monsoon Wedding and Salaam Bombay, said at a press conference, “We all know there’s been an enormous schism, a wall between East and West in the past decade. I wanted to bring some sense of bridge-making, some sense of healing that goes beyond stereotype.
I believe I’ve been put on this earth to tell stories of people like me who live between worlds. Suddenly New York became a place where people who looked like us were ‘the other’ and that was painful. Unlike what (former US President George W.) Bush said: ‘You’re either with us or against us’, I believe there is a middle ground".
Riz Ahmed:
"It's a human story of a young man from Pakistan who dreams of America, who loves it, who pursues the American dream and who has it all - Princeton, Wall Street - then suddenly the world changes and he is looked at as the 'other."
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Directed by: Mira Nair
Written by: Mohsin Hamid, Ami Boghani, William Wheeler
Based on: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
Music by: Michael Andrews
Release date: August 29, 2012 (Venice Film Festival)
Country: United States
Language: English
