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The 76th Venice International Film Festival opens today, kicking off a jam-packed fall festival season. Before heading off to the Lido,\xa0Film Comment\xa0Editor-in-Chief Nicolas Rapold sat down with FC Assistant Editor Devika Girish to discuss the films in the lineup\u2014by auteurs both established and new\u2014that we're most excited about. They speculate about Haifa Al-Mansour's\xa0The Perfect Candidate (which has the dubious distinction of being one of the only two Competition films directed by women), Roy Andersson's About Endlessness, Noah Baumbach's\xa0Marriage Story, Ciro Guerra's\xa0Waiting for the Barbarians, Lou Ye's\xa0Saturday Fiction, and James Gray's Ad Astra, amongst others.\n\nCheck back over the course of Venice for a regular stream of new episodes diving into these and other films.