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The size of the words matters.

And the dimensions of each of those that were pronounced on Wednesday on the Lido were about to sink the entire island.

On the opening day of Mostra number 77, the value of culture, the importance of shared experience,

cinema as a tool of transformation, solidarity, fear and even hope

was discussed

.

The past was mentioned, but what really excited the mood was the future.

All very '

'.

For a moment, some might doubt whether he was at a festival or at a council.

What's more, there were some who dared to utter words such as beardless, chachi, slapstick or asshole, and almost ran out of accreditation and without shame.

Oh my God.

The first to appear was

as godmother of the new normal and president of the competition jury, in that order.

And, true to herself, she waved all the flags she made her own a long time ago.

She first exhorted and encouraged her companions for resistance.

"The DNA of cinema," he said, "is the challenges."

And from there, and after using the word "

" ten times more than Sánchez himself, he launched himself against everything or in favor of everything.

Depending on the barricade you look at.

When asked about her opinion about the decision of the Berlin Festival, not Venice, to

she implied that it was.

Nor did she affirm it outright.

Director Claire Denis, who sat next door as president of the Orizzonti section jury, said earlier that she found it ridiculous to focus on awards when the problem is something "much bigger."

Instead, she made it clear that

and recalled that, in English, the word actress is pejorative.

It is used either actor or interpreter in masculine or feminine.

It is clear.

Or almost.

Then, a step further, the actress (or, better, interpreter) made a target in the management of the pandemic itself.

But of all of it on a global level.

"Aunt economy", he ironically, "seems to be the most important member of the family.

.

She added: "We are a very strange and ridiculous species, because we do not learn from what happened to the first countries that suffered the pandemic ... I find it incredible that we behave in such a fragmented, obtuse and destructive way."

It would seem that she was talking about Spain, but no, it was about the world.

Of all of him.

And so, presentation after presentation, press conference after appearance, each one sang their '

'.

He only needed to concentrate at eight to applaud the hard-working moviegoers with 'ephepedo' masks.

Shortly before the president spoke, it was the stage for the directors of the festivals around the world with

, for Cannes,

, for the current Mostra, and

, for Donostia, and not a single one released a single phrase that will not rhyme.

For a moment, we forgot that the meaning of all this more than cinema (thus, in the abstract) are films (thus, in the plural prosaic rather than majestic).

Image of 'Lacci', by Daniele Luchetti.

'Lacci', by Daniele Luchetti

And so great was the mistake that the opening film, '

' (ties) by

was passed the always necessary process of measuring up.

Venice had not started with a local film for a long time and came to do it on the most difficult day, when it seemed practically impossible to weigh only half of each word heard.

The film, based on a story by Domenico Starnone, wants to be a meticulous portrait of the mechanism of dependency, desire and commitment that drives what is called love.

And to this it is applied hand in hand with the solidity of

very dedicated, precise and slightly exaggerated interpretations

.

The director of

now tells the story of

(that is, a man without more) incapable of committing himself to anything or anyone other than his most intimate and immature self-pity.

Nothing that we don't see every day at home.

His victims are the woman he betrays and his children whom he loves without knowing how or why, which, hurriedly, is the most sophisticated form of contempt.

Let's say the elements are arranged for what you want to be and it's a deeply bitter portrait of us all.

, of turning each look or gesture from the title itself into a pompous and motley metaphor;

in, and we return to the beginning, a big word, of the fat ones.

And that, on a day like today, was already too much.

Let's say that the attempt is understood: with a major day of reunions, reconquests, resistance and resilience, which is less than a film that, in the same bombastic way, appeals to a huge cinema.

Far are the years in which the Mostra was inaugurated with '

' or even

.

All of them closer to films in the plural than to cinema in the very singular.

Amen.

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