The novelty of this edition of Venice International Film Festival, scheduled from 28 August to 7 September, is a special Out of Competition section dedicated to television series. In this way, the oldest festival in the world proves to be sensitive to contemporaneity and surpasses its competitors on an aspect that is now accepted outside the festival circuit, but which was waiting to be officially ratified: serial products now have a quality that has nothing to envy to film productions.
For the time being, the section is limited to a few titles, but of a certain weight: “Disclaimer” by Alfonso Cuarón with Cate Blanchett, “M – the child of the century” by Joe Wright with Luca Marinelli, “Families like ours” by Tomas Vinterberg, “Los Años Nuevos” by Rodrigo Sorogoyen and as a special screening “Leopardi” by Sergio Rubini with Leonardo Maltese.
In the past, there have been occasions when festivals such as Cannes and Venice have caught the spirit of the times by demonstrating an openness “to the new that is advancing”, as director Alberto Barbera said years ago when opening up to streamer films, but these have been occasional forays. Think of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s ‘Berlin Alexanderplatz’ in 14 episodes, Edgar Reitz’s ‘Heimat’ in 1984 or Kieslowski’s ‘The Decalogue’ in 1989. Today, auteur seriality is a trend in the audiovisual market that increasingly seduces great directors and claims its own space.
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