Eighty editions Venice Film Festival narrated through historical and unpublished interviews, a rich repertoire of archival images and a narrative voice are owned by Carla Brown. Documentary film by Baptiste Echegaray and Giuseppe Buchi.Lion’s share‘, created by Canal Plus and Rai Com under the editorial supervision of Rai Cultura, traces the decisive stages and important moments of the oldest film festival in the world, which, since its founding in 1932, has never ceased to be a mirror of its time. and an integral part of Italian cultural history. Even today, at the end of August, Mostra del Cinema remains the “highlight” of the meeting for Italian and international actors and directors competing on the Lido with their best films to conquer cult cinema. Golden Lionor. Divided into three moments, the documentary proposes to start with Venice Glamour, featuring Sophia Loren, Virna Lisi, Gina Lollobrigida, Brigitte Bardot, all the way to Penélope Cruz, Monica Bellucci and Cate Blanchett, several times on the podium in Venice and winning the Cup Volpi in 2007 and 2022. Instead, the second chapter is dedicated to the turbulent eras of the exhibition, the most intense moments, starting with the screening of the disturbing film “Doctor Volpi”. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, from its first edition in 1932 to the years of the New Uncertainty, was celebrated in Venice like nowhere else in the world. In the third part, “Venice the Discoverer”, the exhibition as a showcase for new talents: Pedro Almodovar, Emir Kusturica, Wim Wenders, Akira Kurosawa, Jane Champion are part of a long list of artists who open up on the Lido and find their initiation. In The Lion’s Share, the voices of actors and great directors such as Penélope Cruz, Tilda Swinton, Fellini, Antonioni, Guadagnino – to name but a few – are mixed with black and white and color images of red carpets, parties on the beach of large hotels, crowds enthusiastic fans waiting for the stars. And then again a series of protests and scandals, like the one that was caused by the screening of “The Passion of the Christ” by Scorsese in 1988. Hatred, quarrels later. says the voice-over of Carla Bruni. “Nothing, after all, it’s more important than cinema.” The Lion’s Share will be presented at the Venice Film Festival as a world premiere on Saturday, September 2.

Meme Mohican