Isabel Sandoval Takes Us Inside the 2021 Venice Film Festival
Writer, director, and actress Isabel Sandoval isn’t your average filmmaker. The triple threat, who created her feature films Señorita, Apparition, and most recently, Lingua Franca, is quite the chic cinephile, and an image-making master who should be referred to as the “queen of sensual cinema.” In fact, she recently wrote a great essay about her “feverish devotion” to sensuality on screen, and has been known to tweet about her history with “manifesting erotic desire” in relation to film. At the 2021 Venice International Film Festival, Sandoval arrived—dressed in Miu Miu, of course, and styled by Dora Fung—to celebrate her short film Shangri-La, in which she stars as a Filipina woman wrapped up in a covert affair with a white farmer during the Great Depression, with Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales directors Alice Rohrwacher, Kaouther Ben Hania and Betty’s Crystal Moselle. Sandoval also captured some fun times on the lido, intimate moments behind-the-scenes at dinners, and some zombies on their way to a screening. See the rest of her Venice photo diary here—featuring appearances from Luca Guadagnino, Kiki Layne, and some fabulous Miu Miu outfits.
Getting a fitting done at the Miu Miu store in Midtown Manhattan on August 25, ahead of the red carpet premiere.
Visiting an installation at the Architecture Biennale.
My first breakfast at Hotel Bauer Palazzo.
Napping on the boat to Burano.
Attending an 8:30 A.M. Dune screening on September 4, where they put your phones in a secure plastic bag.
Getting ready for the Shangri-La premiere (with makeup artist Alexis Day).
On the boat to Hotel Excelsior on the way to the Shangri-La premiere on September 4.
Posing for Brigitte Lacombe during the photo call.
A light photo call moment with Kaouther Ben Hania right before the Shangri-La red carpet premiere on September 4.
With Kiki Layne at the dinner for Miu Miu Women’s Tales on September 4.
With Luca Guadagnino at the Fondazione Prada dinner on September 4.
With Miu Miu Women’s Tales directors Alice Rohrwacher, Kaouther Ben Hania and Betty's Crystal Moselle on September 4.
On the boat for my Miu Miu panel on September 5.
At a Miu Miu private dinner at Acquapazza with Ciara Bravo and Patricia Allison on September 5.
Checking out the regatta festival of gondoliers on September 6.
Kiki Layne after her Miu Miu talk on September 6.
Fans in Halloween Kills cosplay on September 7.
