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“Jay Kelly” stars George Clooney and Adam Sandler lit up the red carpet Thursday night at the Netflix film’s world premiere at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival.

Clooney, who skipped the morning press conference for the Noah Baumbach release due to a sinus infection, arrived alongside wife Amal, while Sandler attended with his family. Co-star Laura Dern was also in attendance with Baumbach and wife Greta Gerwig, among others.

The film, co-written by Baumbach and Emily Mortimer, follows a Hollywood actor (Clooney) and his devoted manager (Sandler) on a transformative trip through Europe.

In his positive review for TheWrap, Steve Pond said the film was “suffused with melancholy...

Holly (Benedetta Porcaroli), a troubled young woman, is persuaded by 7-year-old Arabella (Lucrezia Guglielmino) that she, Arabella, is a younger version of Holly who needs saving — when, in fact, Arabella just wants to run away to punish her father (Chris Pine) for not buying her tacos in the fey comedy-drama The Kidnapping of Arabella (Il rapimento di Arabella).

Partly shot in and around the Veneto region, this is the sort of quirky road movie Italian audiences usually love (see Dino Risi’s 1962 Il sorpasso for the one that set the template). It’s therefore likely to prove a real local crowd-pleaser when it debuts in Venice’s Horizons sidebar. Whether it has enough charm to bewitch non-Italian audiences seems less certain, even given the presence of everyone’s favorite American movie star named Chris speaking credible Italian and showing off his deadpan skills.

But it’s a bit icky to...

Paola Randi’s coming-of-age drama “The Story of Frank and Nina,” which has its world premiere in Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Extra program, has debuted a first clip (below). International distribution is being handled by Fandango Sales.

The synopsis runs as follows: “It’s up to Gollum to tell us ‘La storia del Frank e della Nina’ — only, he doesn’t speak, and has to write it on the wall. He’s the guardian of those words, the ones that can’t come out of his mouth, the ones he writes on buildings as if the city was a big amplifier.

“Frank has stopped existing a couple years back, but to make a living he sells homework outside of school. He’s waiting till he turns 18 to take the train and clear out. Frank’s version of reality is so compelling that we all believe him.

“Until he meets Nina.