Bubbling close to the surface of this year’s Venice Film Festival are existential questions about the future of festivals and cinema itself. The pandemic has thrown the already anxious cinema…
are among only a few studio movies unspooling at the festival, which has nevertheless managed to amass a solid lineup of global arthouse films.
A producer with a film in this year’s lineup was sanguine about a different type of cinema getting a chance to shine: “I feel like this Venice program is incredible. It feels to me like the Cannes program last year, which was so strong. I think there are a lot of younger voices, and I think it’s going to end up being an extremely strong program. Many of those studio movies are not necessarily the next coming in terms of cinematic voices, and I think this year’s program is going to be that way.
But another festival director I spoke to expressed frustration at the irony of Netflix debuting Charlie Kaufman’sduring the festival. “Venice would surely have loved that movie,” they said. “The same forand any other of their many auteur movies. The stakes are not as high for the platforms because traditional studios rely on that theatrical release off the back of the festival launch.
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