The Venice Film Festival starts, free of the Netflix virus and with Almodóvar as the first claim

Venice is an expert quarantine city.

The chronicles say that the city of the canals was the first there in 1347 to formalize the sanitary and hygienic control of those who passed through there.

So they closed their ports to suspicious ships and subjected the obstinate travelers to 40 days of isolation.

Now, since September 2, without going so far,

And of the resigned.

All with a mask, all duly separated in the seats that must be reserved in advance and some with their noses still irritated by the rigorous PCR, the atmosphere that is breathed is more that of the duty fulfilled than that of the shared celebration.

It is not so much a question of contemplating the best as of attending what remains.

And so.

Let's say that

, the Mostra itself and the entire world have gone wrong.

Back in April, when the pandemic had us confined, each of the great cinephile appointments of the year took out their particular calculator: Cannes speculated on delaying their appointment and, when they realized the unappealable, they prepared to

.

Beside him, Venice dreamed of the best possible festival: the reunion, the victory, the resurrected cinema.

Well, no.

The months have passed and the American industry is more stalled than ever before.

And the European, the same.

and the billboard near the void, the Mostra that now starts has nothing to do with the one in recent years that I saw as'

','

'

','

'or'

'marked the path of everything to come.

The man proposes and the coronavirus disposes.

Cate Blanchett, president of the jury, upon her arrival in Venice this Tuesday.YARA NARDIREUTERS

So, few names to excite a red carpet by force excessively disinfected.

Perhaps the main attraction is, as it was last year,

.

If in 2019 he went to collect the honorary Golden Lion, he does so to present '

or

, his first work in English based on the one-act play written by Jean Cocteau in 1929.

which will also be honored at the Mostra, is the protagonist of the long-awaited (although I only know for the times that it has been tempted) the first work of the manchego in the lingua franca of the planet.

Its projection is scheduled on Thursday the 3rd just started the festival and, given that the opening film is '

' by Daniele Luchetti in a very internal Italian key,

Thus, directors such as

(who will present the pilot of his HBO series

) alongside actors such as

round out the brightest, by far the star, of a poster designed in an effortful attempt to turn

.

And for the very coffee growers.

, the director of Chinese origin living in the United States and who was the director of the

not so silent '

' '

', presents '

' as the film that wants to star in it all this year.

Produced by and starring a

resurrected after her Oscar for

', we are, or the film wants to be there, in the symptom and reflection of what is to come.

It is furiously independent cinema, furiously feminist, furiously furious.

And at this point, it is convenient to stop at the turn experienced by the Mostra pandemic through.

Barbera's resistance to programming female directors in the official section in past years, which earned its director all kinds of criticism and produced all kinds of strange excuses as collateral damage, is finally seen to be broken this year.

:

' by Italian Emma Dante;

Mona Fastvold's

'

';

'

', by the French Nicole Garcia;

'

, by the Italian Susanna Nicchiarelli;

'

', by the Polish Magorzata Szumowska;

'

', by the German Julia Von Heinz;

, of the Bosnian Jasmila Zbanic, and that of Zhao.

And so, and although you will see faces as well-known (or not so much) as those of Willem Dafoe (protagonist of the documentary '

'by Abel Ferrara), or

(who look veteran in'

the new from

, the director also of

'), or

(who appears in '

' by

, granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola), or

(

') and

( '

) ... despite them, we said, what matters this year are the authors.

And here the payroll is as long as it is fair.

In addition to those mentioned, there are

, legend of the documentary, with his new work on institutions, '

;

the Japanese

, who attends the appointment with the historical film

';

Russian

, author of such unexpected films as '

', which offers '

';

the Italian

, winner of the Golden Lion of Venice for '

' and of the Golden Bear of Berlin for '

', who premieres his new documentary shot in Syria, '

'.

Nor should we lose sight of another of the notes of this Exhibition: its fixation and delivery to the

.

Ferrara and Wiseman have already appeared in this section.

But there is more.

'

', by

(who won an Oscar in 2007 for '

') and '

, where Italian

(who also presents the HBO series

pays tribute to Salvatore Ferragamo, the shoe designer who wore Marilyn Monroe, they are just two of the hottest on the show.

'

', by

, about

, and, instead of honor, '

', the filming of a long interview by

during the filming of the cult and cursed film'

', complete a menu without a doubt undeniable.

Then at the bottom, Filipino

, the French

Italian

.

Barbera says that the cinema cannot afford to remain blocked.

He insists on the need to send a signal of optimism.

For now, the quarantine in the Lido lasts until September 12.

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