EXCLUSIVE: The Venice Film Festival and its festival director Alberto Barbera have become awards whisperers. Over the past decade, Venice has hosted the launches of such awards magnets as Nomadland…
[co-launched with TIFF],
I’m extremely pleased with how happy people seem to be about the lineup and about being back in Venice. That said, we still have limitations to deal with. The 50% cinema capacity due to Covid restrictions is a huge problem when we have twice as many delegates as 2020. Last year we had around 6,000 accredited guests. This year we have 10,500. This has created problems with access to tickets and the reservation system. We didn’t have any of those issues last year.It was impossible.
I can’t remember such a positive reaction from critics to so many movies at the outset of a festival. It’s largely here, but I’ve also noticed it out of Telluride.
Two of the movies that went very well with critics on your first two days were Netflix movies: Jane Campion’s. Have you seen an evolution in the quality of Netflix movies over the years?
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