Tim Burton returns to Venice Film Festival to present Beetlejuice sequel

Beetlejuice Beetlejuicethe sequel to Tim Burton’s iconic 1988 film, will open the 81st Venice Film Festival, which will run from August 28 to September 7, the Mostra announced on Tuesday. Thirty-six years later, American actor Michael Keaton, at 72, takes on the title role of the grimacing demon, flanked by Winona Ryder (Stranger Things) and Willem Dafoe, still under the direction of Tim Burton, in a relationship with the Italian actress Monica Bellucci, who also appears in the cast. “It means a lot to me to have this film as its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival”reacted the 65-year-old American director, quoted in the festival press release.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice marque “the long-awaited return of one of the most iconic characters in Tim Burton’s cinema”for his part, welcomed the artistic director of the Mostra, the Italian Alberto Barbera, reappointed in May for two years at the head of the oldest film festival.

An Oscar

In the Oscar-winning first installment for Best Makeup, two recently deceased newlyweds become ghosts haunting their old home and call upon a “bio-exorcist”the famous Beetlejuice, to scare away its new occupants. This fantasy comedy had definitively launched the career of Michael Keaton and revealed Winona Ryder, who later appeared on the poster of another great success by Tim Burton, Edward Scissorhands (1990).

In the new opus presented in Venice, the character of Beetlejuice accidentally returns to upset the lives of the occupants of the house by unleashing chaos.