(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 31 - First thing to do: do not look back.
Second: think positive.
Third: to put oneself in their (tricolor) years and be happy.
The 77th Venice Film Festival (2-12 September) will not be remembered for the superstars, unable to cross the narrow national borders determined by the pandemic, nor for the holidays (the risk of assembly is to be avoided and then there is the respect to the thousands of coronavirus victims).
There will be no extra-European personalities, the European ones the bare minimum and who knows, well-known personalities of Italian cinema: everyone.
If not now, when?
It is their golden year.
The opening dinner, as it was for the year after the earthquake, is in the Excelsior's districts with juries and personalities, including the 8 festival directors (including Fremaux of Cannes), no open-air tents with the buffet at risk of infected drops. .
Among the juries there are international stars: the most diva of all, CATE BLANCHETT, has been imagined in an aseptic glass bell for months, to protect herself as much as possible, ready to light up on the red carpet of the Palazzo del Cinema with make up and clothes by her stylist reference who is Italian and sponsor of the exhibition.
Then there is the French LUDIVINESAIGNER and the former Rusty the wild MATT DILLON, who has entered the race to replace Puiu, and has been around Italian festivals for months.
Among the presences currently confirmed, we start with ANNAFOGLIETTA godmother of Venice 77 for the opening and closing ceremony.
The protagonists ALBAROHRWACHER AND LUIGI LO CASCIO are expected for Lacci by Daniele Luchetti, for I Predatori the new director eattore PIETRO CASTELLITTO and hopefully Renzo Rossellini will arrive for The Rossellinis by ALESSANDRO ROSSELLINI, an event of the Critics' Week.
PEDRO ALMODOVAR for the out-of-competition The HumanVoice with TILDA SWINTON Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
PIERFRANCESCOFAVINO protagonist of Padrenostro by Claudio Noce.
No HelenMirren for Roger Michell's The Duke.
Greta Thunberg is also excluded (pity): after the sabbatical year she resumed school and it is highly unlikely to arrive for the documentary about her GRETA by Nathan Grossman.
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