Argentine director Luis Ortega, whose last feature “Kill the Jockey” premiered in competition at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, returns to the Lido with his next film, “Magnetized,” which he’ll be presenting during the Venice Gap-Financing Market running Aug. 29 – 31.
With a nod to films like John Cassavetes’ “Minnie and Moskowitz” and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Punch-Drunk Love,” “Magnetized” is Ortega’s vision of a “crazy love story” that finds its protagonist, the young libertine priest Ramón, falling into a passionate but destructive relationship with the actress Eva, a woman who’s in the midst of a nervous breakdown.
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