Venice: Clooney and DePalma films to debut
George Clooney is heading to Venice to promote his latest movie Michael Clayton.
In the legal thriller, the Oceans star plays a 'fixer' for a US corporate law firm, and is tasked with covering up the company's dirty work.
Brian De Palma's Redacted will also be debuting, and it's been tipped to be one of the most controversial openings at the 64th festival.
The drama focuses on a small group of US soldiers stationed at a checkpoint in Iraq, with events told from different viewpoints.
The director began the project after reading about an incident in March 2006, when members of a US Army squad raped a 14-year-old girl before slaughtering her and her family.
He said: "How could these boys have gone so wrong? In searching for answers, I read soldiers' blogs, books, watched soldiers' home-made war videos, surfed their web sites and their YouTube postings. It was all there, and all in video."
The director, whose previous credits include Scarface, The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible, filmed Redacted on location in Jordan.
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