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Maggie Gyllenhaal made quite the fashion statement in a dramatic black taffeta gown as she walked the red carpet for A Place To Heal premiere during Venice Film Festival on Friday.
The actress, 48, who is serving as the festival's jury president, oozed confidence while striking a pose in the one-shouldered custom Celine gown which featured a voluminous skirt and a short train.
Boosting her height, she added pointed black court heels, with Maggie no doubt turning heads as she sashayed across the carpet.
The Donnie Darko star further accessorised her glam look with a small gold clutch and dark sunglasses – both of which she put aside to pose for waiting photographers.
Maggie's red carpet appearance comes after she called out the lack of female directors in the competition during the opening day of the 83rd festival.
Speaking at a press conference, she asked: 'Could it be possible that the things that women, having had a different experience of being alive in the world, want to make movies about are not always deemed high art? Who decides what’s good?'
Maggie Gyllenhaal made quite the fashion statement in a dramatic black taffeta gown as she walked the red carpet for A Place To Heal premiere during Venice Film Festival on Friday
The actress, 48, who is serving as the festival's jury president, oozed confidence while striking a pose in the one-shouldered custom Celine gown which featured a voluminous skirt and a short train
The Lost Daughter director added that it was a 'systemic problem'.
Meanwhile earlier in the week, jury president Maggie shared her thoughts on the power of cinema.
'When I go to the movies, I'm not interested in perfection, seductive as it may be. My favorite films are films where a filmmaker invites me into their mind and the minds of their collaborators and lets me take a look around,' she said.
'I'm interested in having an interaction with something human, even if that human has a very different experience or point of view than I do.
'I'm also not someone who believes that we can only make art about certain things and by certain people.
'I want to know. I want to be rocked, shaken up. I want my mind to be changed,' she continued.
'I think that when we tell stories about even the most perverse, corrupt characters, it allows us to find empathy for the corruption and perversity all around us, and even-and this, of course, is scariest of all-inside of us, I don't know about you, but there, but for the grace of God, go I.'
Venice Film Festival's red carpet events began Wednesday with the premiere of British director Danny Boyle's Ink, a drama about the rise of media magnate Rupert Murdoch.
Boosting her height, she added pointed black court heels, with Maggie no doubt turning heads as she sashayed across the carpet
The Donnie Darko star further accessorised her glam look with a small gold clutch and dark sunglasses - both of which she put aside to pose for waiting photographers
Maggie's red carpet appearance comes after she called out the lack of female directors in the competition during the opening day of the 83rd festival
It closes on September 12, with Italian costume drama Dio Ride (God Laughs), written and directed by Giovanni Veronesi.
American actress and film-maker Maggie will chair the jury for the main competition.
She will be joined by Tunisian director and screenwriter Kaouther Ben Hania, the English composer Daniel Blumberg, Italian film critic Francesco Casetti, French director Xavier Giannoli, Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat and Hong Kong director Johnnie To.
Stars expected to attend this year include Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis, sisters Rooney and Kate Mara, Robert Pattinson, Penélope Cruz and her husband Javier Bardem, Pamela Anderson, Sam Rockwell, John Malkovich, French actor Louis Garrel, South Korean actress Cho Yeo-jeong, and US actress Ellen Burstyn, who is also accepting a lifetime achievement award.
The Gallagher brothers will be there to promote their documentary Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger, which follows the band's 2025 reunion tour.
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