The festival opened on Wednesday with the Hong Kong martial arts epic Seven Swords and runs until 10 September.
There are 19 films up for competition, including Goodnight and Good Luck directed by Clooney, Paltrow”s Proof and Terry Gilliam”s The Brothers Grimm.
Security has been tightened in the wake of last month”s bomb blasts in London.
Damon will appear in the Italian city to promote The Brothers Grimm, in which he stars.
Other films vying for the prestigious Golden Lion include The Constant Gardener, starring Ralph Fiennes, the Kate Winslet musical Romance and Cigarettes, and Ang Lee”s western Brokeback Mountain.
However, film-makers from Spain and Latin America have voiced their displeasure that no titles from their countries are included in the main line-up.
Oscar-winning art director Dante Ferretti chairs this year”s competition jury, which includes German director Edgar Reitz and the American producer Christine Vachon.
As she launched her latest movie, The Fine Art of Love - Mine Haha, in Venice, actress Jacqueline Bisset attacked the attitudes of women who "viciously" exploit each other.
"The film is about the exploitation of women, by men and also by women, which is what I find most shocking," she said.
In the Orizzonti (Horizons) section, pop star and actress Bjork makes her big-screen comeback in experimental film Drawing Restraint 9, directed by her husband Matthew Barney.
The Icelandic singer won the best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival five years ago but has not acted again until now.
Tim Burton”s animated feature The Corpse Bride, Cameron Crowe”s romantic comedy Elizabethtown and Russell Crowe”s biopic Cinderella Man will screen out of competition.
Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli and the Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki will be presented with special Golden Lion awards.
The festival will close with Perhaps Love, the first musical to be produced in China in 40 years.
Vocabulary:
martial arts: any of several Oriental arts of weaponless self-defense（武術）
in the wake of : （尾隨，緊跟）
voice: to give utterance or expression to（發表；講出）
biopic :（名人傳記）
第62屆威尼斯電影節開幕了。喬治·克魯尼、格溫妮絲·帕特洛、馬特·戴蒙等影壇巨星都將來到威尼斯參加這場電影盛會。
周三，香港武俠巨片《七劍》拉開了威尼斯電影節的序幕，本屆電影節將於9月10日閉幕。
共有19部影片參加競賽單元的角逐，其中包括喬治·克魯尼導演的《晚安，好運》、帕特洛導演的《證明》以及特里·吉列姆執導的影片《格林兄弟》。
受到上個月發生在倫敦的地鐵爆炸事件的影響，本屆電影節的安保工作格外嚴格。
馬特·戴蒙將來到這座意大利小城，為他主演的影片《格林兄弟》做宣傳。
參加角逐本屆威尼斯電影節金獅獎的影片還包括：拉爾夫·費恩斯主演的《不朽的園丁》、凱特·溫斯萊特主演的歌舞喜劇《愛情和香煙》，以及李安執導的西部片《斷臂山》。
然而，來自西班牙和拉丁美洲的電影製片人和導演紛紛對本屆電影節沒有本國影片參賽表示不滿。
著名電影藝術導演、奧斯卡金項獎得主但丁·費拉提出任本屆電影節評委會主席，評委會成員還包括德國導演艾德加·萊茨和美國電影製片人克麗斯汀·娃珊。
傑奎琳·比塞特在威尼斯發布了她的最新力作《愛情的藝術》，同時，她還抨擊了影片中所講述的女性相互之間的惡意利用。
“這部電影描述了女性被男性和別的女性利用，我覺得非常震驚。”她說。
在本屆電影節的地平線單元中，世界流行歌壇、影壇兩棲明星比約克將復出，在她丈夫導演的前衛實驗電影《Drawing Restraint 9》中出演主角。
冰島歌后比約克曾經在5年前的戛納電影節上獲得最佳女演員，但此後，她再也沒有出演過任何影片。
儘管不參加角逐，蒂姆·伯頓的動畫片《殭屍新娘》、卡梅隆·克羅威的浪漫戲劇《伊麗莎白鎮》和羅素·克勞的名人傳記《鐵拳男人》都將在威尼斯電影節上映。
意大利女演員斯黛芬妮·桑德雷莉和日本動畫導演宮崎駿將在本屆電影節上被授予金獅榮譽獎。
中國影片《如果·愛》有幸成為本屆電影節的閉幕影片，這是中國40年來拍攝的第一部音樂劇。
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