Venezia’s ex-James Bond theme, with Pierce Brosnan and Olga Kurylenko at weekend premières

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The Mostra di Venezia—the Venice Film Festival—saw more celebrities over the weekend, including Madisen Beaty, accompanying Joaquin Phoenix, Paul Thomas Anderson, JoAnne Sellar, and Philip Seymour Hoffman at the première of The Master, a film inspired by science fiction author and Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard (though the film itself does not deal with Scientology). Lullaby to My Father, a documentary by Israeli director Amos Gitai, E stato il figlio (It Was the Son) by Daniele Ciprì, and the comedy Cherchez Hortense (Looking for Hortense) by Pascal Bonitzer were the other films on Saturday. Saturday’s proceedings also saw Angelica Russo, Yael Abecassis (who accompanied Gitai to the première of Lullaby), Toni Servillo, Giacoma Civiletti, Daniele Ciprì, Maika Monroe, Mohammed Al Turki, Kristin Scott Thomas and Isabelle Carré.
Day five had a Bondian theme. Not only was Quantum of Solace Bond girl Olga Kurylenko present for Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder première, in which she stars opposite Ben Affleck, but former 007 Pierce Brosnan attended the première of Love Is All You Need with Susanne Bier and Trine Dyrholm wearing his Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso Squadra Hometime in pink gold. While publicity-shy Malick did not attend, Love Is All You Need’s director, Gabriele Muccino, did.
Other celebrities caught at Venezia on Sunday included Romina Mondello, Francesco Scianna, Emanuela Postacchini, Alberto Barbera, Olga Kent, Antonella Salvucci, Alessandra Mastronardi, and Olga Sorokina.