Angelina Jolie Arrives in Italy Ahead of the Venice Film Festival Premiere of Her FilmMaria

Mar. 15, 2025

Angelina Jolie arrives in Venice, Italy, on Aug. 27, 2024, ahead of the 81st Venice Film Festival.Photo:Jacopo Raule/GC Images

Jacopo Raule/GC Images

Angelina Joliehas touched down in Italy for theVenice Film Festival.

The actress, 49, is in town to celebrate her biographical dramaMaria, which willpremiere at the annual eventon Thursday, Aug. 29.

Jolie was photographed waving as she arrived in Venice on Tuesday, Aug. 27, wearing a khaki-colored belted trench coat over navy bottoms, dark sunglasses and black boots, with her hair down in a straight style over her shoulders.

The Oscar winner’s appearance at the Venice Film Festival will come two days before her exBrad Pittarrives for the premiere of his movieWolfs, which takes place Sunday, Sept. 1.

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Angelina Jolie arrives in Venice, Italy, on Aug. 27, 2024, ahead of the 81st Venice Film Festival.Jacopo Raule/GC Images

In a recent conversation withVanity Fair, Venice Film Festival Artistic Director Alberto Barbera said “of course” Pitt and Jolie’s appearances at the event would be spaced apart, amid theircontentious ongoing divorce.

“Angelina will be on the first day, on Thursday, [August] 29, and she will leave right after with Pablo Larraín to go to Telluride [Film Festival],” he explained. “Brad will arrive only on Saturday, to Venice.”

“There isno way that they can cross each otherat the Lido,” Barbera added.

Angelina Jolie inMaria(2024).Pablo Larraín

Pablo Larraín

Mariais the latest film from director Larraín, 48. His previous filmsSpencerandJackiefeatured Oscar-nominated performances fromKristen StewartasPrincess DianaandNatalie Portmanas former First LadyJacqueline Kennedy Onassis, respectively.

Based on true accounts about Callas,Mariawill tell the “tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris,” according to a press release.

The Venice Film Festival runs from Aug. 28 to Sept. 7.

source: people.com