Despite denials from those directly involved, it is clear that between Venice Film Festival And the Cannes Film Festival has always hovered over a sort of built-in rivalry, an unending tussle between distributors, journalists and the talents themselves, who each year ask which of the two events will be the better success. If we want to set up a scoreboard, It is clear that Venice has excelled in recent years, Not only because of a richer and more diverse selection curated by Alberto Barbera, but also because we are determined not to close the doors to all those films produced by the streaming giants while Cannes, embodied by Thierry Frémaux’s illustrations Is. wanted to fight The result was an increasingly inclusive and colorful Venice and an increasingly untouchable and elitist Cannes., focused almost exclusively on art house cinema and, indeed, French cinema. However, in 2023, something changes. After years of strong nationalism and alternatives that have slowly driven the public and the media away from Monty des Marches, Frémaux takes cover, and proposes a program that couldn’t be more Hollywood-like, both linked to the world premiere of a blockbuster Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny like a highly anticipated film assassins of the flower moon by Martin Scorsese, undergoing a controversial and provocative series such as Sculpture HBO’s.
Cate Blanchett at Venice Film Festival 2018
Needless to say, this year Venice seeks to raise its bar even higher, responding to that healthy competition, which aims to better itself by trying to better itself in each edition. too bad, after confirmation challenging, Luca Guadagnino’s new title with Zendaya as opening film comes unexpected news: Hollywood enrolled in actors’ strike screen actors guild who have decided to join the protest raised by the screenwriters ofAmerican Federation of Television and Radio Artists Which is actually halting and slowing down the production of hundreds of movies and TV series for the last 70 days. As told by the union spokesperson, the objective of the movement fran drescher – yes, that day Came -, receiving higher salaries, more new security in relation to the percentage of revenue and the use of artificial intelligence with the guarantee that the image of the stars in the future cannot be recreated by technology. Hollywood stars and screenwriters haven’t gone on strike together since the 1960sBut it can turn into a colossal disaster, and not just because actors – from Meryl Streep to Matt Damon, from Jennifer Lawrence to Mark Ruffalo – they will stop working, but also because they will refuse to move around and promote their jobs, Rejected invitations to international festivals and reviews such as the Telluride Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and, most notably, the Venice Film Festival.
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Timothée Chalamet in preview of bones and all
In the year that Cannes rears its head by re-entering Hollywood, Venice can afford to lose out on all the juicy delicacies., that is, Hollywood flies across the ocean and decides to shine in Italy, to the delight of the public, the press and the producers. If the actors’ union and studio can’t reach an agreement By August 30, start date of the exhibition, it is quite possible that the Lido will be abandoned ZendayaAll other protagonists from films selected by Josh O’Connor and Alberto Barbera, leaving the only non-American actors and directors to parade – Luca Guadagnino, Which is to say that there should still be. In short, the situation is fragile, above all because all those artists who decide to betray the cause and accept pre-agreed work commitments are considered insensitive and wrong – including those Kim Kardashianwho opted to post their pictures on Instagram from the sets of the new season American Horror Story Of which he will be the hero -. If things don’t change, the Venezia 80 risks turning into Sanremo 2004, The year in which the record companies decided to boycott the festival organized by Simona Ventura – allowing only semi-unknown artists to appear on the Ariston stage. Of course, the hope is that the tug-of-war between Hollywood and its workers will die down in time, even if some tell us it won’t be so easy to move the conversation forward.