The best red carpet looks from the 2026 Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival, which typically sees Hollywood A-listers travel by boat to the little island of Lido every September, has arrived. This year, the 10-day red carpet event will host the likes of George and Amal Clooney, Penélope Cruz, Robert Pattinson and Patrick Schwarzenegger and more in their formal finest. Some films will be watched too.

The festival has long been a glamorous affair, but it has recently become a major platform for fashion news, fueling the industry marketing machine: Last year, Julia Roberts lent Amanda Seyfried her Dario Vitale Versace suit , Ayo Edibiri made her Venice debut in a custom red strapless dress by Chanel that teased Matthieu Blazy’s new direction, and Greta Lee did the same for Jonathan Anderson’s Dior.

The event has come to be seen as an early finger in the wind ahead of the Oscars. This year, the movies in the running for the Golden Lion prize are deep, dark and, politically charged. Danny Boyle’s “Ink” – an adaptation of the acclaimed play about the early years of Ruper Murdoch (Guy Pearce) and his acquisition of London tabloid paper “The Sun” – kicks off the festival on its opening night. Following will be Werner Herzog’s “Bucking Fastard,” with sisters Kate and Rooney Mara who fall in love with the same man (Orlando Bloom), and Florian Zeller’s “Bunker,” in which real-life partners Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem play a couple whose marriage becomes strained after the husband agrees to build a survivalist bunker for a tech billionaire. However, the lineup has already drawn criticism for its lack of female directors — this year just two films, May el-Toukhy’s “Woman Unknown” and Rachel Szor’s “NAZA,” directed by women are in the main competition for the grand prize.

“There’s a systemic problem. It’s much harder for women to get their films financed,” said director Maggie Gyllenhaal, the jury president for this year’s festival. “Who decides what’s good and valuable?” Gyllenhaal is also screening a short Marilyn Monroe biopic starring Dakota Johnson and Ellen Burstyn, though it’s not competing.

With just a handful of Hollywood stars set to grace the carpet, there’s reason to believe the fashion on show might skew considered and cerebral. But with musicians like Phoebe Bridgers as well as Liam and Noel Gallagher expected to make an appearance — the Gallagher brothers are rarely seen on a red carpet, let alone together — there’s still plenty to look forward to.

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威尼斯电影节已如约而至，每年九月，好莱坞一线明星都会乘船前往丽都岛。今年，为期十天的红毯盛会将迎来乔治·克鲁尼和阿迈勒·克鲁尼、佩内洛普·克鲁兹、罗伯特·帕丁森和帕特里克·施瓦辛格等众多明星，他们将盛装出席。届时，电影节期间还将放映一些影片。

该电影节一直以来都是一场光鲜亮丽的盛事，但最近它已成为时尚新闻的重要平台，推动了时尚行业的营销机器：去年，茱莉亚·罗伯茨将她的达里奥·维塔莱·范思哲套装借给了阿曼达·塞弗里德，阿约·埃迪比里身穿香奈儿定制的红色无肩带礼服首次亮相威尼斯，预示着马修·布拉齐的新方向，格蕾塔·李也为乔纳森·安德森的迪奥做了同样的事情。

这场盛会已被视为奥斯卡颁奖典礼的风向标。今年角逐金狮奖的影片风格深刻、阴郁，且充满政治意味。丹尼·博伊尔执导的《墨水》（Ink）——改编自广受好评的同名戏剧，讲述了鲁珀特·默多克（盖·皮尔斯饰）早年收购伦敦小报《太阳报》的故事——将在电影节开幕之夜拉开帷幕。紧随其后的是沃纳·赫尔佐格执导的《叛逆的快车》（Bucking Fastard），讲述了凯特·玛拉和鲁妮·玛拉姐妹同时爱上同一个男人（奥兰多·布鲁姆饰）的故事；以及弗洛里安·泽勒执导的《地堡》（Bunker），由现实生活中的伴侣佩内洛普·克鲁兹和哈维尔·巴登主演，讲述了一对夫妻在丈夫同意为一位科技亿万富翁建造一座末日生存地堡后，婚姻关系变得紧张的故事。然而，由于缺乏女性导演，该片入围了主要奖项的角逐，并已受到批评——今年只有两部由女性执导的电影，分别是 May el-Toukhy 的《女人未知》和 Rachel Szor 的《NAZA》。

“这是一个系统性问题。女性导演获得电影投资要困难得多，”本届电影节评审团主席、导演玛吉·吉伦哈尔说道。“谁来决定什么是好电影，什么是有价值的电影？”吉伦哈尔还将放映一部由达科塔·约翰逊和艾伦·伯斯汀主演的玛丽莲·梦露传记短片，不过这部短片并不参与竞赛单元。

由于只有少数好莱坞明星会亮相红毯，人们有理由相信，当晚的时尚风格可能会偏向深思熟虑和内敛沉稳。不过，像菲比·布里杰斯以及利亚姆和诺埃尔·加拉格尔这样的音乐人预计也会现身——加拉格尔兄弟很少出现在红毯上，更别说一起亮相了——所以，这场盛会依然有很多值得期待的地方。

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