Clooney, Bullock space thriller opens Venice film fest Hollywood high-rollers George Clooney and Sandra Bullock kicked off the Venice film festival on Wednesday with a harrowing space drama that opens a line-up flush with gloomy tales. The jury is headed up by Bertolucci, best known for his raunchy 1972 "Last Tango in Paris", and includes British director Andrea Arnold ("Red Road") and German actress Martina Gedeck ("The Lives of Others"). British and American flicks dominate, with the return of the family as the vessel for social, political and economic crisis, from child abuse and abductions to absent fathers and marriage breakdowns. Images and soundbites