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Werner Herzog's Bucking Fastard world premiered at the Venice Film Festival to a 7½-minute standing ovation. Kate and Rooney Mara play twin sisters Jean and Joan Holbrooke, with Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson in supporting roles; the sisters spoke about their close bond aiding their performances, as critics noted a tender, offbeat portrait of two women navigating life under Herzog's gaze.
Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard, featuring Rooney and Kate Mara as inseparable sisters, drew a 6.5-minute standing ovation at Venice as Herzog returned to the festival; the film marks the siblings’ first on-screen pairing, with Orlando Bloom also in the cast, in a surreal drama about love, unity, and an imaginary land.
Director Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard premiered at the Venice Film Festival’s 83rd edition, featuring Rooney Mara and Kate Mara who appeared together at the photo call, with Orlando Bloom among the attendees.
Werner Herzog's Bucking Fastard opens at Venice as a wildly surreal twin tale starring Rooney and Kate Mara, inspired by a real English case. While ambitious and oddly captivating in its synchronized performances, Herzog’s dry, matter-of-fact filmmaking doesn’t conjure the awe or danger his fiction once delivered, leaving the film feeling cinematically dull and emotionally distant despite its provocative ideas.
Rooney and Kate Mara revealed at Venice that they learned to speak in perfect unison for Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard, finding an unspoken rhythm that felt almost musical. Herzog said they hardly needed rehearsals, and although two weeks of prep were allotted, he began shooting after five days. The film, loosely inspired by real-life British twins and featuring Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson, marks the Mara sisters’ first screen pairing and reflects Herzog’s long-standing wish to make the project.
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