Venice Film Festival - keep to or senile?

The 66th Venice International Film Festival which has founded in 1932, and is the world's labeled "international" film festival and the oldest one, but after the opening of this year's Venice, received the most comments is "bleak Stars" and "style alternative." Adhere to the unique artistic views, to absorb North America, Asia and Europe, various styles of film，the aging Venice Film Festival is a tenacious personality, or the show has aged too tired?

Familiar face has become a big star more than the judges

Although there are six competitions unit is American film, as the largest number of countries in a movie. But in addition to Nicolas Cage, the Venice red carpet almost invisible fans are familiar with the "Hollywood faces." at the opening， Compared to last year, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Tilda Swindon and so appears, the flash light into one of the "pomp", this year's red carpet photographers seemed interested in saving the memory card space for reporters.

Venice Film Festival stressed that the opening film "Baaliya", is the largest investment in Italian film history, and the last 20 years, Venice opened the first time in domestic films. But for most fans, this is still just an "Italian film" rather than international production. More people as a much-anticipated, is the film director Giuseppe Tornatore, arm "star" with Monica Bellucci took to the red carpet scene. However, Monica Bellucci failed to Ruqierzhi. The "legend of Sicily," became famous overnight in the Italian actress Monica Bellucci, popular in France and the United States, Italy signs actress, short of the opening of her Venice, no doubt even more deserted.

The jury chairman Lee to the opening who is the East face a big star on the red carpet. Raised twice, "Golden Lion Award" Ang Lee, but also to meet old friend President of the Venice Film Festival, Marco Muller face, at the opening ceremony to accept the local media, Lee praised Venice is the world's best Film festivals.

Style minority under a strange stick

Venice Film Festival announced the list of competition films unit this year many critics unanimously evaluation "unpopular." In the inner circle is regarded as a classic, it is hard to sell large so-called "cult film"; cross the psychological horror and science fiction films to explore. Some people even said that Venice is an attractive place in the end to see how strange people.

However, a few old faces in Europe appeared in Venice film, so many real fans eyes shining. 80-year-old

Jacques Rivette carries the new movie "36 VUES DU PIC SAINT LOUP" appears, that the time people fell back almost 50 years. Jacques is the late 50th century, and Godard, Truffaut par representative of French New Wave film. Although the Berlin and Cannes Film Festival regulars, he has been "evasive" Venice. The biography of French film at the Venice Lu Saier, to the "art film" fans no small surprise.

Similarly, just remove the Cannes Film Festival Jury President Isabelle Huppert, in order to film the "white substance" was included in the current Venice. With the "woman done the same things" and "hard-hearted ceremony," Huppert has twice won this event in Venice. She is now 54-year-old European cinema, "Ambassador", in July also flew to Shanghai International Film Festival, "Huppert Film Festival." Many film critics have predicted the article, will for the first three titles after the Venice Film wearing her head.

In addition, the description of the story of Israel's war film "Lebanon", "go ahead" for director Akin's new "Soul Kitchen", and directed by Cui Jian's first Film Festival closing film, "Chengdu, I love you" and other movie fans in their respective No hot circle. Perhaps a small minority, perhaps alternative, but to have a personality insisted was enough for the Venice International Film Festival 66-year-old "Lion" is still shining.