Italians do the whole last-weekend-of-summer thing better than anybody in the world: They have a film festival in Venice. Here's why everybody's so happy to be there.
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The cool kids of Hollywood and Europe have convened over Labor Day for Europe's signature Mediterannean end-of-summer rite, the Venice Film Festival, this year in its landmark 80th year. The festival takes place largely on the Lido, the sumptuous barrier island out in the storied green lagoon about a twenty-minute commute by boat from the city and its hundreds of bridges.
None of which is to imply that the business end of things doesn't get served, as Adam Driver and Patrick Dempsey, suited and booted on the red carpet fora amply demonstrate, pictured top. But Venice is also the sort of festival that has an annual"godmother" — aka,"patroness" — and this year it's the Sardinia-born Casino Royale actress Caterina Murino, doing a light turn for the press as she puts an evening gown through its paces in the lagoon surf, pictured below....
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