(ANSA) - ROME, SEPTEMBER 07 - On the day of his eightieth birthday and 50 years after the release of his first film, The bird with crystal feathers, Dario Argento is the protagonist (not 'inpresenza' but via video) at the Venice Film Festival Venice, where the National Union of Film Journalists celebrates him by giving him the Pietro Bianchi prize, which every year goes to great personalities of our cinema.
In a video interview carried out with the president of the SNGCI Laura Delli Colli, who introduced her to the Lido, the cinematographer also mentioned his next film, Black Glasses, which will begin shooting as soon as possible, compatibly with anti-covid regulations.
It will be a yellow / thriller set in Rome: The director will also shoot a lot in the countryside around the capital, which he finds hard and mysterious: "The film will have to do with Edgar Allan Poe, as you already understand from the title, even more than my other works" he explains.
Argento, who loves to talk about fear because, he explains, "it leads me to stir in my depths, to rediscover my nightmares, a process that I also find joyful", lives this period with restlessness: "I am very afraid, I am terrified of the Covid and of being infected. My films speak of atavistic fear, of the dark, Freudian half and in fact they are successful all over the world because they are universal themes - he explains in the open film with him taking off his mask -. That of this 'pestilence' is instead a fear horrible, you hit us all. "
His bond with Venice is deep and dates back to when he was twenty and he came to the Festival for the first time: "I lived in a rented room and saw all the films they screened".
He later returned several times, first as a correspondent for Paese Sera and then as a director.
Among the Venetian sorties he cares most about, "the time when Bernardo Bertolucci invited me to go with him for one of his films. I have a very good memory of him".
Venice "has taken the lead, has relaunched itself, its films have often won Oscars. I have a great friend, Guillermo DelToro, who, like me, is in love with the festival".
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