Post by warner123 on Feb 27, 2024 5:42:20 GMT
I allow myself this only apparent trespass into the universe of cinema, contemporary art and politics to share with you some suggestions and reflections that accompanied me during the journey back from Venice. Context and location: Venice Art Biennale and Film Festival. Let's start with the Venice International Film Festival, now in its 66th edition. From watching some films and from the air we breathed between the tables on the Lido, we are forced to take note of how we and our country are seen abroad. Perhaps we will be able to continue with complaints and complaints for who knows how many more years. But the facts are there, available to us and it would be guilty to ignore them completely.
It is therefore important that it is (and I hope it continues to be) art that shows Uruguay Mobile Number List us this, cinema in this specific case. The most disarming observation is that today's Italy, seen from the outside, gives shivers. Even seen from the inside, for goodness sake, despite presbyopia being a widespread evil among us Italians. All the more reason to finally stop and reflect despite the usual controversies. This year's Venice International Film Festival presented numerous films produced abroad that show a truly disturbing Italy. An Italy that unfortunately we farsighted people no longer seem to be able to see. Videocracy is a Swedish production, Francesca a Romanian film and Honeymoons a Serbian-Albanian co-production.
All these films ask us more or less directly to move the sheet of reality further away from our gaze and try to see what we are up to from a different perspective. And once again it is the cinema that arrives first, that puts its finger on the wound with punctuality and precision, that invites everyone (but absolutely everyone) to stop and reflect carefully, to tell us more or less angry and confused that we are going too far , that we are all somewhat responsible for this ramshackle era in terms of values, feelings and ability to react. A cinema therefore that neither accuses nor condemns, but which photographs a reality, an external point of view. It offers us all the elements distorted by a lack of national vision and shows them clearly even if from afar. This is, in my opinion, a cinema that doesn't even want to provide recipes, but which simply suggests that by correcting the point of view, perhaps the drift that seems inevitable can be stopped. That we still have time to change course.
It is therefore important that it is (and I hope it continues to be) art that shows Uruguay Mobile Number List us this, cinema in this specific case. The most disarming observation is that today's Italy, seen from the outside, gives shivers. Even seen from the inside, for goodness sake, despite presbyopia being a widespread evil among us Italians. All the more reason to finally stop and reflect despite the usual controversies. This year's Venice International Film Festival presented numerous films produced abroad that show a truly disturbing Italy. An Italy that unfortunately we farsighted people no longer seem to be able to see. Videocracy is a Swedish production, Francesca a Romanian film and Honeymoons a Serbian-Albanian co-production.
All these films ask us more or less directly to move the sheet of reality further away from our gaze and try to see what we are up to from a different perspective. And once again it is the cinema that arrives first, that puts its finger on the wound with punctuality and precision, that invites everyone (but absolutely everyone) to stop and reflect carefully, to tell us more or less angry and confused that we are going too far , that we are all somewhat responsible for this ramshackle era in terms of values, feelings and ability to react. A cinema therefore that neither accuses nor condemns, but which photographs a reality, an external point of view. It offers us all the elements distorted by a lack of national vision and shows them clearly even if from afar. This is, in my opinion, a cinema that doesn't even want to provide recipes, but which simply suggests that by correcting the point of view, perhaps the drift that seems inevitable can be stopped. That we still have time to change course.