Five in competition at the Lido, Italian cinema and case / SPECIAL VENICE 79

 Five directors competing for the Golden Lion and twenty other titles selected in the various sections between Horizons, Fuori Concorso, Venice Classics between documentaries and fiction: leaving for the Lido at the end of August there is a tricolor squadron.

In competition in Venice 79 are

(01 in the hall from 8 September) with Luigi Lo Cascio as the homosexual playwright and poet Aldo Braibanti who at the end of the 1960s in Rome was sentenced to nine years of imprisonment on charges of plagiarism of a young student, and Elio Germano and Sara Serraiocco among the protagonists.

with

(distributed by Vision), a road trip on the edge of the American province and the story of the first love between Maren (Taylor Russell) and the lonely Lee (Timothèe Chalamet).

(01 Distributions), the story of the saint of Assisi played by Margherita Mazzucco, but also of a girl and her dream of freedom.

(Warner Bros from September 15), a highly anticipated film for the retirement of the director of Respiro, with a cast led by Penelope Cruz, a family story set in the Rome of the 70s.

And

(distributed by I Wonder Pictures), the drama of a woman (Trace Lysett) struggling with the farewell to a dying mother that leads her to reflect on the themes of abandonment and acceptance.

    In the other sections there are 20 titles including the closing film

(Sky Original, in the hall with Vision) which passes Out of Competition, the same section also for the choral, and prophetic in the title,

(Wildside, in the room with Vision) with Silvio Orlando, Valeria Mastandrea, Monica Bellucci, Sara Serraiocco;

, the quintessence of the aesthetics of the film critic;

by Gianfranco ROSI (in the hall on 4 October with 01), documentary on the pilgrim Pope Bergoglio, a sort of Via Crucis around the world,

(Fandango) documentary by Benedetta Argentieri on the wife of the jihadists, the courts of Simone MASSI, while in Orizzonti there is great anticipation for the opening film

(distributed by Lucky Red), the true story of a young Nigerian illegal immigrant (Glory Kevin) who sells her body on the edge of a big city and for

(in the hall from 22 September with 01 and January on Paramount +), debut as an actress for

, while at Orizzonti Extra they spend

(in the room with Vision), the story of a strange night between the policeman Edoardo Pesce and the young Tarek (the newcomer Yothin Clavenzani) and

Opera before the young director, screenwriter and writer Carolina CAVALLI,

    Also noteworthy are two documentaries in Venice Classics:

by Anselma DELL'OLIO and

(Sky Italia and Sky Studios production with Leone Film Group) by Francesco ZIPPEL.

But if you ask the director of the Venice Film Festival (August 31 - September 10) the state of health of Italian cinema carefully observed for the selection announced today, beyond the choice made for the bill, the answer is: " Last year I was too optimistic, this time I came to terms with a panorama of lights and shadows. The films selected are excellent, in some cases excellent, but - answers ANSA Barbera - I have seen many Italian films but yes focused on quality and not quantity ".

The number of productions, around 250 films, "is exorbitant for the market,

an unprecedented amount of money is circulating and it seems that we want to intercept these flows of resources rather than develop the scripts well and follow the shooting.

I must admit - he continues - reluctantly that many are below acceptable qualities for the history of Italian cinema ". Almost a bubble ready to explode," and I hope that a reflection on this will soon be made ". (ANSA).