Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera says he’s been “toiling for the past nine months like a factory worker on an assembly line at a Chaplinesque pace” to assemble the star-studded lineup he just unveiled that on paper also looks like one of his best.
The Lido’s upcoming 81st edition features a geographically balanced mix of known names and potential discoveries across a wide range of genres spanning from pure entertainment to highly political works and marking the return of erotically charged cinema, as Barbera tells Variety. It looks like a great lineup.
Are you happy? Yes, of course I’m happy. I’m very happy because, as you say, the lineup is rich and varied. Let’s say that I’m 95%-98% happy, because we can always do better.
But, having said that, I actually have to note that this year’s selection reflects the ambitions and guidelines of the type of festival I’ve been working on for years.
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