Venice, Italy – The highly anticipated conclusion to Kevin Costner’s sprawling Western epic, Horizon: An American Saga, will be premiered in world class film industry range known as Venice Film Festival. Kiarostami’s second opus of the grand undertaking has been scheduled to be shown on September 7th, the last day of the film celebration.
Originally slated for a theatrical release in August, the decision to pull Horizon: Chapter Two, from the theaters, was released after the first part failed to receive the warmth it deserved at the Box Office. But the Venice Film Festival has provided the occasion for a new realization of the director’s view.
As a unique twist, the festival will also screen Horizon: Chapter One before the screening of its sequel which would make fans engage in a complete film experience. Costner himself was full of words of appreciation to this festival, referring to it as his dream to work with the festival.
The choice to release Horizon in Venice is provoked by controversy and various problems in the sphere of cinematique that the movie has met recently. Nevertheless, it is precisely this characteristic that links the film to the trope of film festival programming: the desire to present spectators with large-scale and stylistically daring films.
Horizon: This work is actually a historical novel which takes viewers thorough fifteen years, during which the USA expanded further west and the conflict between the white settlers and Indigenous people intensified. Costner doubles in the capacity of director, producer, and actor of the movie.
With the Venice Film Festival premiere, Horizon: An American Saga will most surely create new discussion and debate. Whether it will be able to come over the problems and achieve the success, which was set as its basic principle, it is yet to be seen.