00:00The day of the festival has arrived, and we don't know which one, because here on The Lido, we lose track of time and space.
00:09And the 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival in 2025 features Catherine Bigelow in competition today.
00:21The Oscar-winning director, the first woman to win the statuette for Best Director,
00:25finally returns to the big screen to present House of Dynamite, her new film that once again confirms her enormous lucidity and precision in photographing the power of the contemporary world.
00:41And the story is, in short, terribly plausible.
00:45We are inside the halls of power in the United States.
00:48A missile is intercepted, a launch, a nuclear warhead that was launched from an unknown location and is headed towards the territory of the United States.
01:03And the film is a grueling race against time to stop this missile from hitting the ground and to understand where it came from.
01:09If there was any need, Bigelow confirms his incredible talent for delivering a tense, decisive, incisive and above-all lucid story to the public,
01:26far removed from the aesthetic flattery that is increasingly seen on the big screen in terms of political analysis and our contemporary world.
01:32This extremely conscientious and precise structure, supported by a great script,
01:45is accompanied by very solid performances in every aspect of the film, as is the case with great directors.
01:55Bigelow reigns supreme with his eye, his ruthlessness in portraying a world that is on the brink of collapse.
02:02And what the film seems to tell us is that no matter how much we, as the West, can prepare for the unthinkable, the worst, we can never be completely safe.
02:15The film leaves the viewer, at least personally, deeply shaken and offers, even if within the framework of a story that is for now fictional,
02:30a plausible event that makes us all feel in danger, all uncertain.
02:34And despite this feeling of dismay, we are faced with a film for which, for once, the term necessary does not seem inappropriate.
02:47As for the context of the Venice Film Festival and the films in competition,
02:58House of Dynamite currently seems like the film that could win, not only for political and content reasons,
03:03but also, and these things rarely go hand in hand, for its actual formal narrative excellence.
03:08No.
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