Diary from Venice 80 (2023) Episode 4: Family Business

On the Lido they rage three contradictions. The former is questionable, but FYI, we report it anyway. This is against the high prices in some restaurants. The kiosk along the lagoon asks: 8.50 euros for a sandwich. However, the managers are not there, claiming that it is a “tramezzo” and they use part of this money to promote cultural events, consisting of conferences and screenings of minor works. The objection is exaggerated, because if the place is too expensive, just don’t go there: with a little effort, you can find more than one place on the Lido where you can eat at fair and good prices.

Of course you can’t expect to find in a sentence famous “blue crab”. Since it made headlines, its price has jumped from €4 to €9 per kilogram, peaking at €11 in some markets. However, the luxury biennale restaurant Terrazza, run by Chef Tino VettorelloDuring these days, Mostra has already served 560 kilograms. Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano he liked the dish so much that he even asked for an encore.

The second contradiction concerns exclusively the film industry. He threw it Pierfrancesco Favinoinspired by Adam Driver’s casting of Enzo Ferrari’s Drake in Michael Mann’s film, contrary to the trend of foreign actors interpreting Italian characters. Sounds like a speech addressed to the mother-in-law to understand the daughter-in-law. In fact, it’s obvious that the producers themselves choose who they want, and they need someone who they think can make their film better. Favino, of course, does not believe that he can force the Italian actor on the Americans.

Thus, his statement looks like a call to strengthen the Italian system by providing it with the means that would allow us to create our stories at home, and not see them stolen by foreigners.

This will bring two benefits. First, should be avoided, at least for purists who want to watch movies in their original language, ridiculous effects, such as hearing Enzo Ferrari and his wife speak English., the language is probably unknown to them. Second, to prevent our stories from being read by people who cannot fully know them and therefore present them in a misleading or obviously inaccurate way. Which, unfortunately, we sometimes manage to do on our own.

The third argument is the most delicate, but also the most frustrating.. It is he who targets the alleged rapists courageously invited (as expected) to the Lido by director Alberto Barbera. One Luc Bessonaccused by five women: so far the only lawsuit filed against him has resulted in his acquittal for lack of evidence. Second Woody Allenlanded here in Venice with his Coupe de Chance after being rejected by the Cannes Film Festival for the same reasons.

Allen’s accusations of molesting his adopted daughter with former partner Mia Farrow were never proven and the director was never charged. However, for some time he was labeled a rapist by bigoted movements, and one evening, as he stood on the red carpet for the premiere of his film, a small group of feminists came out against him. Alberto Barbera did a very good job of inviting them.underpinned by the constitutional principle that a person is innocent until he is finally convicted.

And in these cases there is not even a temporary one. In addition, the director rightly argues, it is much more reasonable to focus on real rapists. As (perhaps) the Lido police did the other day, executing an international arrest warrant for sexual assault. Roman Polanski did not arrive suddenly, but spanish actor Gabriel Guevara22, little girl idol, son of dancer Miguel Guevara and French actress and model Marlene Murro.

The guy is best known for playing Christian “Chris” Miralles Haro in Scam SpainSpanish adaptation Scamand for the role of Nick Leyster in The Original Amazon. My fault (unfortunately, a prophetic name for it!) based on a series of novels wattpad Mercedes Ron.

Gabriel Guevara was in the Lido to receive the International Young Generation Award for Best Film in Italy. Everyone immediately distanced themselves from him: the organizers of the award, who removed him; Biennial, stating that his presence is not related to the exhibition. However, for the first time this is the background for such a sensational arrest. He has been charged with sexual assault committed in France when he was a minor.

His mother claims that he has not been in France since the age of 12, and his lawyer claims that he has already been acquitted in Spain on the same fact and, therefore, this is a mistake. Let’s see. Of course, it could not be Guevara, precisely because he had already been arrested and had his ass groped several times. Marco Agostini, General Commander of the Local Police of Veniceduring a party hosted by Giorgio Armani Sunday on his yacht for 700 guests. A police officer denounced him on Facebook, saying he limited himself to leaving the party without making a scene out of respect for the context and the uniform he is wearing.

And he wore it to the party too. Therefore, the question spontaneously arises: who can be so stupid as to pester a gentleman in a police uniform? Agostini doesn’t have too many doubts:It was almost certainly a twenty-year-old boy.“. He also added that he took to social media to show solidarity with the persecuted women: “It’s only now that I really understand how they feel.” This story should make us reflect from a different point of view also on the objections to the famous names mentioned above.

The behavior of the commander, expressed with the greatest respect for the work of the police, this is as inappropriate as it is symbolic. If harassment is a serious crime, then how can a lawman ignore it and, at the most, report it on Facebook like any passer-by?

Strengthened by his role, he had to immediately arrest the culprit, contrary to the guest and the context. If, on the other hand, touching the ass can be classified as a goliardic act, as follows from the position of Marco Agostini, then stop organizing social campaigns and in vain refer to the witch hunt.

Having dealt so far only with polemics, and not at all with cinema, we finally unite them by opposing the film. Aeneassubmitted yesterday at the competition. Like all those who yearn to display their intelligence, perhaps out of fear of not being recognized, its author Pietro Castellitto sins with arrogance. At the same time, instead of creating satire, as he believed, he himself becomes the subject.

In the first scene of the film, his character, the rebellious son of two Roman bourgeois who, out of boredom, engages in drug dealing, provocatively asks his mother (Claire Nochese): “Are we a clan?” By the end of the credits, there is no response. However, the film has its ideal ending in real life, when its author first appears on the red carpet.

He appears with his father Sergio (his father is also in fiction), his younger brother Cesare (his brother is also in fiction), and his mother. Margaret Mazzantini

(A writer whose books are brought to the screen by her husband, Sergio). Well, yes: i clan. Indeed, reality and fiction are inseparable: Aeneas it could have been a portrait of the real Castellitto family. Same environment, same city. Apparently Pietro doesn’t sell drugs. But pretends to be author’s films, fake provocative works.

In dialogue, set design, and even virtuosic filming, he expresses his intention to kick-start the social class he comes from, as if he had not left or broken with it. . The very one, thanks to which he can afford to make mediocre but expensive films at the age of 31, and present them in competition at the Venice Film Festival.

It reminds us of those sixty-eight boys who competed between their families from Monday to Thursday and then spent long weekends on the beach or in the mountains on the money of those fathers who started competing again the next Monday. The only merit of the radiant face of Benedetta Porcaroli.limited to a small part, for which we are confident that there will be better opportunities in the future.

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