Amal Clooney looks glamorous in an orange jumpsuit as she leaves Venice with husband George after his $200M movie Wolfs was savaged by critics
Amal Clooney was the picture of beauty as she returned from the Venice Film Festival with her husband on Tuesday.
The 46-year-old international human rights lawyer exuded glamour in an orange jumpsuit as she boarded a river taxi with George Clooney, 63.
She paired the garment with gold heels and a white Prada handbag as she was seen receiving assistance on board.
George, on the other hand, wore a subdued outfit, wearing a navy blue T-shirt with taupe trousers.
The duo left the festival after promoting their new film Wolfs. Critics were fiercely opposed to the film, calling it a “messy” one-star failure and an “unbearable comedy.”
Amal Clooney was the picture of beauty as she walked home from the Venice Film Festival with her husband George on Tuesday
The 46-year-old international human rights lawyer exuded glamour in an orange jumpsuit as she was spotted boarding a river taxi with George Clooney, 63
Wolfs, the $200 million Apple TV+ film hitting theaters September 20, follows George and Brad Pitt as they’re forced to reluctantly work together to “solve” a problem that arises when a stern prosecutor wakes up to find the dead 20-something she had a one-night stand with.
But critics say the film – which had a record budget for a streaming film – is disappointing, with IGN’s Siddhant Adlakha Slammed it described it as a “slick student film about a rich teenager living on a media diet of early Guy Ritchie.”
Xan Brooks of The Guardian also wrote that the “joke might actually be true” from director Jon Watts, who made a fortune from the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Spider-Man trilogy, “because what he’s created is essentially the film adaptation of the meme where two Spideys are pointing at each other.”
And Robbie Collin of The Telegraph called the film “messy,” writing: “George Clooney recently complained that Quentin Tarantino doesn’t consider him a movie star. If he makes more films like this, Clooney will soon prove Tarantino right.”
Adlakha writes that the problems with the film, which premiered Sunday night in Venice, “came early and often.”
According to him and other critics, Watts appeared to have capitalized on Clooney and Pitt’s star status to make it a box office hit, with a bland plot and a “half-baked script with little humor or heart.”
Barry Levitt of the Daily Beast stated that all the jokes revolve around the idea that neither character wants to work with the other.
‘Driving with Clooney and Pitt in Wolfs captures all the exhilarating fun of your kids endlessly shouting, “Are we there yet?”‘ Levitt writes.
She teamed the piece with gold heels and a white Prada handbag as she was seen lending a helping hand on board
Amal completed her look with oversized sunglasses and styled her glossy chestnut locks in a side parting
George, on the other hand, kept it understated, teaming a navy T-shirt with taupe trousers and sunglasses
The couple looked at each other in admiration as they walked back from the festival
The couple stood arm in arm as they looked out over the beautiful view of the city
“It repeats the same joke over and over (and over and over). And just when you think Wolfs might be interested in moving on to new material, it tries the same punchline again, in its 400th variation.”
Levitt goes on to write that both Clooney and Pitt “automatically deliver performances, move their mouths and produce elaborate dialogue because they are paid a lot of money to do so (more than $35 million each, according to The New York Times).”
At times, the script seems to go further and offer more insight into the characters, Collin said, citing scenes in which Clooney’s joints creak and Pitt groans as he bends over, both reaching for their reading glasses.
“This is the closest Wolf ever gets to a good running gag, but it feels more like the basis for a potentially fun subplot about growing old that never materializes,” he writes.
Adlakha also says, “The longer Wolf goes on (and it does; few 108-minute films seem so interminable), the more insulting it becomes to watch.”
Ultimately, some critics concluded that Wolf has the same problems as other streaming films, with the BBC Writing that it’s “the kind of watchable-yet-forgettable pastime that streaming services were made for.”
Collin is a bit more severe, writing that it “belongs to a very modern and depressing trend in cinema: the streaming platform for creating work, where famous names are thrown into light-hearted action comedies to infuse a digital brand with real glamour.
‘After all these experiences I’m not entirely convinced that they are really meant to be watched: they are more like the film equivalent of an impressive row of books in a model home that turns out to be a cardboard box,’ the critic said.
The pair were at the festival to promote his new film Wolfs, which reunites him with Brad Pitt (pictured at the premiere next to Brad’s girlfriend Ines de Ramon)
Wolf follows George and Brad Pitt as they are forced to reluctantly work together to ‘solve’ a problem that has been panned by film critics