Clooney film set to woo Venice Film fans

GEORGE CLOONEY’S third directorial effort, The Ides of March, and Madonna’s second, WE, are bound for the Venice Film Festival, so the paparazzi should be out in force.

Abbie Cornish stars in the latter as Wally, a young woman obsessed with Wallis Simpson, played by British actress Andrea Riseborough (Brighton Rock) in a career-making role. Likewise, Clooney’s festival opener, focusing on dirty dealings behind a presidential campaign, looks set to give Ryan Gosling the kudos, and the stardom he has long deserved.

Gosling, who is coming alongside Steve Carell in Crazy, Stupid, Love and in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, plays an intern working on Clooney’s presidential campaign. It will be interesting to hear what the highly politicised Clooney has to say.