Ethan and Joel Coen’s crime comedy “Burn After Reading” opened the 65th edition of the Venice Film Festival Wednesday, with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand taking over the red carpet for the premiere.

The film follows two gym teachers who accidentally stumble across and then try to sell a disc containing the memoirs of a CIA agent. John Malkovich, J.K. Simmons and Richard Jenkins co-star.

"The film talks about some incredibly idiotic people who do some really stupid things," Clooney told reporters at the film’s press conference.

Variety reports the “Michael Clayton” star also rescued Pitt from a horde of questions about fatherhood. You can read all about that by clicking right here.

But talking about the film, the Coens said, “We did a spy movie because we hadn't done one before. We could have done a dog movie or an outer space movie, but we ended up doing this.”

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