The film Burn After Reading by Joel and Ethan Coen will open the 65th Venice International Film Festival, which will take place between August 27 to September 6.
The film will be presented at the opening ceremony on August 27, and will be a world premiere, as announced on Monday by festival officials.
The Coen brothers wrote and directed Burn After Reading starring George Clooney, John Malkovich, Brad Pitt and Tilda Swinton.
The film is about a former CIA agent who wrote down his memoirs in a manuscript, which finds its way into the hands of gym employees, who try to sell it in order to pay for cosmetic surgery. They think that the manuscript is full of secrets.
The Coen brothers won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991 for the film Barton Fink, and three Oscars the year before for No Country for Old Men for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.