Venice tricolor, the exhibition "you could not not do"

(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 30 - "Could we not do the exhibition? Yes. Should you have avoided doing it? Maybe yes ... For us the right answer is: it could not be done": Alberto Barbera, imminence of the opening di Venezia 77 (2-12 September), captures the still air, a mixture of palpable worry-agitation.
   This year is different and there is excitement, also given the spread of the Coronavirus certainly not eradicated.
   "Follow us with affection and support us with generosity. It is good to do well in the cinema": the phrase of the director Barbera, almost an appeal, is the mood of the festival: cheering for cinema. Especially Italian. There is no doubt that, beyond the numbers, 4 in the competition for the Golden Lion plus all the others, there is a tricolor charge in Venice 77 an unsolicited opportunity, determined by the contingency of the pandemic, which in fact offers Italian cinema a huge international showcase. For Italian cinema, its directors and its performers, Venezia77 is as they say 'the place to be'. And also for this reason it is important that the festival, with all the risks, cautions and health precautions of the case, is done, it is not by chance that the opening on 2 September, for the first time in 11 years, is entrusted to an Italian film : Lacci by Daniele Luchetti with Luigi Lo Cascio and Alba Rohrwacher.
   The Italian patrol is led by the four competing titles.
   THE MACALUSO SISTERS, by the playwright Emma Dante, a family history of three generations based on sisterhood ". MISSMARX by Susanna Nicchiarelli with the English actress Romola Garaine in the role of the youngest daughter of the philosopher of Capital, an ante litteram feminist, overwhelmed by a passionate love madal tragic destiny. PADRENOSTRO by Claudio Noce with Piefrancesco Favino who tells the years of lead seen by a child with his life upset by the terrorist attack against his father's years and by the encounter with a bigger and more brazen boy. And finally NOTTURNO the new documentary by Gianfranco Rosi, the author of SacroGra's Golden Lion and Oscar nomination for Fuocammare. Away from the front line, shot in three years along the borders of Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, Lebanon, illuminates and gives voice to the human drama of those populations. (ANSA ).