Make that Three Gallo Films in Venice: Jerzy Skolimowski’s Essential Killing added to Comp

Vincent Gallo will be the toast of the Lido this year. Gallo who is showing his short film The Agent, in the Horizons sections and his feature length film, Promises Written in Water received an in competition slot which will oddly go up against a Gallo-starring crazy-looking thriller “Essential Killing,” makes its world preem at the Venice Film Festival. Jerzy Skolimowski who is described by the festival as “the excellent form of the enfant terrible of New Eastern European Film,” co-wrote the film alongside Eva Piaskowska. This follows the story of a Taliban member who lives in Afghanistan, kills three American soldiers and then is taken captive by the Americans. He is transferred to Europe for interrogation but manages to escape from his captors and becomes an escaped convict on a continent he does not know. Here’s the trailer: