War before the palaces

One can watch the time standing still in “Venezia 75”, the Kurzfilm, the Antonello Sarno made for the birthday of the Mostra - a half hour of old pictures to see before the opening film “apology” from Joe WRIGHT. The Lido, Venice as window blind hardly changed, and the festival takes place still in the same areas. The olle Festivalpalazzo is kostümiert for three years for the duration of the film festivals by the Italian Meisterausstatter Dante Ferretti.

Suitably to the fact that the war - main in the Iraq, in Paul Haggis' “The Valley OF Elah” and Brian De Palmas “Redacted” - will play a role in this competition, has Ferretti this time an enormous spherical bomb into a potemkinsche plastic front before the actual palace wall tinkered. In view of the fact that the entire festival already dreams about the new building at the other side of the Strandpromenade, it seems to one that a little like a bad comment to the hated old Festivalzentrum.