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Mar. 14 - Mar. 21, 2004 |
Italians dominate Venice festival
New films by Bellocchio, Benvenuti, Maresco, Tavarelli and Bertolucci to be screened at Lido
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2003-08-24
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As the oldest and arguably most prestigious film festival in the world, the Mostra del Cinema di Venezia - Venice film festival to most - has proven a worthy testing ground for what is worthy in terms of quality movies. Unlike the Cannes festival, which this year proved disappointing and empty, this year's line-up on the Lido fares much more promising.
Italian films may be the ones to profit most from the absence of big-name auteur directors. From Italy the official selection includes Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers in an out of competition slot, Marco Bellocchio's Buongiorno Notte, Edoardo Winspeare's The Miracle and Paolo Benvenuti's Segreti Di Stato. Elsewhere in the line-up, in the Contro Corrente parallel competition section, there is Daniele Cipri and Franco Maresco's The Return Of Cagliostro, Gianluca Tavarelli's Liberi and the Italian-produced Turkish film Mud (Fango) by Darvish Zaim.
Films from abroad that are in competition include Margarete von Trotta's Rosenstrasse, Christopher Hampton's Imagining Argentina, Tsai Ming Liang's Goodbye Dragon Inn, Carole Lai's Floating Landscape, Amos Gitai's Alila, Michael Winterbottom's Code 46, Srdjan Karanovic's Loving Glances, Bruno Dumont's Twentyninepalms, Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu's 21 Grams, and Manoel De Oliveira's A Talking Picture.
High-profile art house names that are missing from this year's line-up are Emir Kusturica's Hungry Heart (still not ready); Wong Kar Wai's 2046, which is still shooting and is set for a mid-December release in China, which makes it more likely for Berlin; and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill. One top name Italian director who will not make the parade is Ermanno Olmi, whose Singing Behind The Screens is still not ready.
The second installment of Peter Greenaway's Tulse Luper Suitcases trilogy is also not ready, but part three (Antwerp) is ready, which is causing puzzlement among aficionados. After all, it has only been a matter of months since the first part in this trilogy premiered at the Cannes Film Festival (under the title Part 1: The Moab Story).
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