My trip to the Venice Film Festival
These days, I have been attending the Venice Film Festival, which is held on Lido Island in front of Venice.
It is a long island with a long sandy beach, beautiful liberty-style villas (I don't know what those are; it's not a normal English phrase) and lots of trees. In the past, in the nineteenth century, wealthy people from around Europe used to spend their holidays here. There are still two beautiful hotels from that period.
One, the Excelsior Hotel, is open to celebrities or whoever can afford their fabulous rooms. The other, The De Bains Hotel, is used only for photo exhibitions or little events during the film festival. It was the setting of a film, "La morte a Venezia" (Death in Venice), based on the Thomas Mann novel and directed by one of the most gifted Italian directors, Luchino Visconti.
The Venice Film Festival must be one of the oldest (or even the oldest!) film festival in the world. It was born before Cannes and the Oscars! It's a chance for me to preview lots of films, from all round the world! From China, South Korea, Japan, Tunisia, Georgia, Israel, France, India, Colombia, Chile, Norway, Russia and many many others! A great and an amazing opportunity for someone who loves cinema and watching films, like me!
I deeply believe that the cinema is a form of art. It's Culture.
This does not mean that I can't see some really awful or incomprehensible movies here! Sometimes I wonder what the director must have drunk before making the film! 😅
What I really love, though, in addition to he movies, is having brief stops, now and then, and looking at this beautiful view!