The Venice Film Festival kicked off the fall festival season this week, and it’s already given us several amazing films and TV series. Alfonso Cuarón’s Disclaimer is one of them, and the audience in Venice welcomed it with open arms—and a six-minute standing ovation.
Disclaimer stars Cate Blanchett as an acclaimed journalist Catherine Ravenscroft, whose life takes a wild turn when she receives a novel from an unknown author, threatening to expose her darkest secrets. While trying to uncover the writer’s true identity, she must confront her past before it destroys both her life and her relationships with her husband Robert (Sacha Baron Cohen) and their son Nicholas (Kodi Smit-McPhee).
Disclaimer is one of the buzziest TV shows to premiere in Venice, and it was only fitting to share it with the world at a film festival because Alfonso Cuarón and its stars Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline wanted to deliver a cinematic masterpiece.
“The three of us, we’re formed with films, with cinema. I don’t know how to direct TV – probably at this stage of my life, it’s too late to learn. We approached this whole thing as a film,” Cuarón told reporters in Venice.
Disclaimer was met with positive reviews and a six-minute standing ovation in Venice, ahead of its premiere on Apple TV+ on October 11.
