{"id":3249,"date":"2021-08-31T12:29:20","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T16:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2021-08-31T12:29:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T16:29:24","slug":"venice-reclaims-spotlight-as-1st-covid-era-film-fest-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/venice-reclaims-spotlight-as-1st-covid-era-film-fest-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice reclaims spotlight as 1st COVID-era film fest opens"},"content":{"rendered":"

VENICE (AP)<\/a> \u2014 Venice is reclaiming its place as a top cultural destination with the opening of the Venice Film Festival \u2014 the first major in-person cinema showcase of the coronavirus era after Cannes canceled and other international festivals opted to go mostly online this year.<\/p>

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Italian director Andrea Segre, whose documentary of an ethereally empty Venice during lockdown was screened Tuesday, said the festival is sending the message that despite the risks and complications, \u201cwe need theaters for cinema.\u201d<\/p>

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No stranger to plagues, Venice opens film fest with caution<\/p>

TorontoStar<\/a> – Visitors to Venice could be forgiven for not realizing that beyond the majesty of St. Mark\u2019s Square and the romance of gondola rides lies a city that helped provide a baseline of what the world knows today about containing pandemics.<\/p>

It was here that the term \u201cquarantine\u201d was coined, after merchant ships arriving in the 15th-century Venetian Republic were moored for 40 days (\u201cquaranta giorni\u201d in Italian) to see if their crews were afflicted with the plague. It was here that the first isolated pestilence hospital was built on a solitary island in the lagoon, a precursor to today\u2019s COVID-19 isolation wards. And it was in Venice that 16th-century doctors donned beak-nosed masks filled with aromatic herbs to cleanse the air they breathed when treating the sick \u2014 an attempt at self-protection that today is the favored choice for Venetian Carnival costumes. <\/p>

Venice\u2019s central place in the history of battling pandemics provides a relevant backdrop to this year\u2019s Venice Film Festival, which opens Wednesday with the premiere of Pedro Almodovar\u2019s in-competition film \u201cParallel Mothers.\u201c Almodovar developed the project during Spain\u2019s 2020 coronavirus lockdown, one of the harshest in the West.<\/p>

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