Earlier in the day he spoke out about his latest directorial debut, branding it ‘an angry movie for an angry country’- his own.
But George Clooney was all charm as he arrived at the premiere of Suburbicon with his stunning wife of three years Amal, 39, on Saturday.
The Hollywood actor, 53, kicked off the annual 74th Venice Film Festival in style, arriving to the star-studded event by speedboat.
The name’s Clooney, George Clooney: George Clooney was all charm as he arrived at the premiere of Suburbicon with his stunning wife of three years Amal
Loved up: The duo put on a cosy display on the carpet, with George planting a tender kiss on wife Amal’s cheek as she held his face lovingly
Dressed in an impeccably tailored black suit, he embellished his crisp white shirt with a black bow tie, his silver hair swept into a side parting.
He was only upstaged by a glamorous Amal, who slipped her curves into an elegant lilac gown, boasting a corset style neckline.
The human rights lawyer, 39, accentuated her slender midriff in the cinched in piece, which flowed out into a floor-skimming full skirt.
Wearing her raven bob into a perfectly blow-dried side parting, Amal sported bold brows and lashings of mascara, completing her look with statement beaded earrings and a bold red lip.
Their appearance comes after they welcomed twins Elle and Alexander on June 6th, and the family have been splitting their time between their Berkshire mansion and Lake Como.
Turning heads! The human rights lawyer, 39, accentuated her slender midriff in the cinched in piece, which flowed out into a floor-skimming full skirt
Flashlights! The glamorous duo posed on the red carpet for the dozens of photographers, also dressed in glamorous black attire
Glamour: The Hollywood actor, 53, kicked off the annual 74th Venice Film Festival in style, arriving to the star-studded event by speedboat
Stealing the spotlight! He was only upstaged by a glamorous Amal, who slipped her curves into an elegant lilac gown, boasting a corset style neckline
Speaking at the photocall back in Venice, Italy earlier in the day, George said his latest directorial effort, Suburbicon, is an angry movie for an angry country – his own. It’s a twisted tale of darkness at the heart of the American dream.
‘A lot of us are angry – angry at ourselves, angry at the way that the country is going, angry at the way the world is going,’ Clooney told reporters Saturday in Venice, Italy, where ‘Suburbicon’ is competing for the festival’s Golden Lion prize.
‘It’s probably the angriest I have ever seen the country, and I lived through the Watergate period of time,’ he added. ‘There is a dark cloud hanging over our country right now.’
New parents: Their appearance comes after they welcomed twins Elle and Alexander on June 6th, and the family have been splitting their time between their Berkshire mansion and Lake Como
Cosy display: The duo held hands as the gave their best poses for the waiting photographers at the annual event
Lovely in lilac! Amal towered above dapper George, accentuating her stature in a pair of delicate silver sandals as she walked the red carpet
Flawless: Wearing her raven bob into a perfectly blow-dried side parting, Amal sported bold brows and lashings of mascara, completing her look with statement beaded earrings and a bold red lip
Not holding back: Speaking at the photocall earlier in the day, George said his latest directorial effort, Suburbicon, is an angry movie for an angry country – his own. It’s a twisted tale of darkness at the heart of the American dream’
Meanwhile star of the film Matt Damon and his wife Luciana Barroso looked incredible as they put on an affectionate display while attending the Suburbicon screening at the Sala Grande on Saturday night.
Luciana, 41, drew attention to her fabulous figure in an emerald green silk dress, while Matt, 46, looked dapper in a tuxedo.
Luciana’s Marchesa dress was cut asymmetrically to expose part of her decolletage, and featured a ruffle design at her midriff to draw attention to her tiny waist.
She styled the dress with a pair of moss green tassel earrings, and worked her curly raven tresses into an up do.
‘A lot of us are angry – angry at ourselves, angry at the way that the country is going, angry at the way the world is going,’ Clooney told reporters Saturday in Venice, Italy, where ‘Suburbicon’ is competing for the festival’s Golden Lion prize
‘It’s probably the angriest I have ever seen the country, and I lived through the Watergate period of time,’ he added. ‘There is a dark cloud hanging over our country right now.’
‘We wanted it to be funny, we wanted it to be mean,’ he said. ‘But it is certainly angry, and it got angrier as we were shooting’, George said of the film
Delving deep: George’s satirical film noir stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore as residents of a seemingly idyllic – and all-white – 1950s suburban community that erupts in anger when a black family moves in
‘Unfortunately, these are issues that are never out of vogue in our country,’ Clooney said ahead of the film’s red carpet premiere
The Argentinian-born beauty drew attention to her eyes with bronze smokey eye make-up, and emphasised her stunning features with bronzer and frosted nude lipstick.
The Bourne identity star met Barroso – then working as a bartender – in April 2003 while filming Stuck On You in Miami.
The couple have three daughters: Stella, six, Gia eight, and Isabella who just turned 17 this month. Luciana also has an 18-year-old daughter from a previous marriage.
Matt stars as Gardner Lodge in the film, who must navigate the town’s dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit and violence.
Star of Suburbicon: Actor Matt Damon put on a suave display as he posed with wife Luciana Barraso on the red carpet
Seen here in Surburicon: Saturday was Damon’s second time on the Venice red carpet this week. He also stars in Alexander Payne’s ‘Downsizing,’ in which – as so often – he portrays a likable everyman
Loved up: They put on a cosy display for the camera, as she nestled affectionately into her main man
Driving them green with envy: She accessorised her emerald green gown with a pair of eye-catching earrings
Also at the red carpet premiere was Julianne Moore, who stars as Matt’s on-screen wife Nancy Lodge and also his sister in law.
The stunning flame-haired beauty, 56, turned heads in a Valentino 2017 gold dress, embellished with glitter encrusted tassels.
She teamed the plunging piece with a black body, wearing her hair in a sleek side parting as she showed off her natural beauty under minimal make-up.
Speaking about the film’s storyline recently, which tackles racial tensions, she said of today’s society: ‘The only way they will (do well) is if the generation before them is doing that as well.’
Addressing the controversy surrounding the Civil War statues which kicked off the violence in Charlottesville, she added: ‘In the U.S., people are arguing about monuments. They must be removed. You simply cannot have these figures from the Civil War in town squares and universities for our children to see.’
Star of the film: Juliane Moore looked stunning in a glitter-encrusted sparkling Valentino gown as she posed on the red carpet
With director George and fellow actor Matt: Julianne stars as Matt’s on-screen wife Nancy Lodge and also his sister in law
Golden girl! The stunning flame-haired beauty, 56, turned heads in a Valentino 2017 gold dress, embellished with glitter encrusted tassels (pictured left with director husband Bart Freundlich
Loved up: The genetically blessed pair have been married for 14 years and share children Liv and Caleb
America’s divisions give an unnerving timeliness to ‘Suburbicon.’ The satirical film noir stars Matt Damon and Julianne Moore as residents of a seemingly idyllic – and all-white – 1950s suburban community that erupts in anger when a black family moves in.
It fuses a script by the Coen brothers with a narrative about racial divisions inspired – in a negative way – by Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
‘I was watching a lot of speeches on the campaign trail about building fences and scapegoating minorities,’ Clooney said.
That set Clooney and writing-producing partner Grant Heslov to thinking about other points in United States history when forces of division were in the ascendant. They remembered 1957 events in Levittown, Pennsylvania, a model suburban community where white residents rioted at the arrival of a black family.
Glitzy: Iron Man 3 actress Rebecca Hall, 35, (left) turned heads in a daring black gown slashed to the top of her thighs while Alessandra Mastronardi (right) put on an elegant display in a floor length maroon dress
Leggy: Fashion influencer Chiara Ferragni made a head turning entrance in a white plunging mini dress with a billowing train
They fused that idea to an unproduced script by Joel and Ethan Coen about a similar white-picket-fence community where a crime goes horribly wrong in farcically bloody ways.
The images of white rage in the movie feel unnervingly contemporary, recalling last month’s rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia.
‘Unfortunately, these are issues that are never out of vogue in our country,’ Clooney said ahead of the film’s red carpet premiere. ‘We are still trying to exorcise these problems. We’ve still got a lot of work to do from our original sin of slavery and racism.’
‘I grew up in Kentucky and they would come to my hometown to do Civil War reenactments and they’d go to the townspeople and you got to pick if you wanted to be a Union or a Rebel soldier. You wanted to be the Rebel, it was fun. You didn’t really understand the history of the Confederate flag.
Pictureseque: Actress Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector made quite the duo as the posed for pictures on the red carpet
Ethereal: Chiara boasted a stunning emerald necklace (left) while another red carpet goer stunned in a fairy inspired frock
What a sandwich! Julianne was joined by her handsome co star and director Matt and George in a lively display
‘Now, if you want to wear it on your t-shirt or hang it off of your front lawn have at it, good luck with your neighbors. But to hang it on a public building where, partially, African American taxpayers are paying for it? That cannot stand and we have to come to terms with those things.’
On one level, ‘Suburbicon’ is a comedy, in which the best-laid plans of Damon’s scheming corporate executive go bloodily astray. Damon and Moore practically explode with suburban repression, and there’s a delicious turn by Oscar Isaac as a prying insurance investigator.
Saturday was Damon’s second time on the Venice red carpet this week. He also stars in Alexander Payne’s ‘Downsizing,’ in which – as so often – he portrays a likable everyman.
But Damon also can play the psychopath, as he demonstrated memorably in ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley.’ In ‘Suburbicon,’ he’s a bland suburbanite who becomes a monster.
Turning heads: Chiara showed off a hint of her silhouette in the semi-sheer trailing frock
Vision in maroon: Katsiaryna Shulha oozed understated elegance in a purple velvet gown
Pals: Julianne and Matt cut glamorous figures as they strolled along the red carpet
Close: (From left to right), composer Alexandre Desplat, actors Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, and George Clooney
‘I don’t really get to play the bad guy a lot, but I do get a nice range of roles,’ Damon said.
He recalled Payne telling him, ‘I like you because you don’t look like a movie star.’
‘And I know exactly what he meant,’ Damon said. ‘I look kind of like an average American person, so I think directors get to have fun playing with different variations of what that might mean.’
For all the bloody fun in ‘Suburbicon,’ the social concerns Clooney displayed in previous films he directed – including ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ and ‘The Ides of March’ – are never far from the surface.
The Clooney Foundation he runs with his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, gave $1 million in the wake of Charlottesville to the Southern Poverty Law Center to combat hate groups.
Clooney said he was anxious that ‘Suburbicon’ not be a polemic or ‘a civics lesson.’
‘We wanted it to be funny, we wanted it to be mean,’ he said. ‘But it is certainly angry, and it got angrier as we were shooting.’
Always a gentleman: George held the door open for his leading lady, as they arrived in a chauffeur driven car
Grand entrance: Earlier in the day they had taken a speedboat along the Venice canal to the plush venue
Stars: Director George Clooney, from left, actors Julianne Moore, Matt Damon and composer Alexandre Desplat pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘Suburbicon’ during the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival