Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera says he’s been “toiling for the past nine months like a factory worker on an assembly line at a Chaplinesque pace” to assemble the star-studded lineup he just unveiled that on paper also looks like one of his best.
The Lido’s upcoming 81st edition features a geographically balanced mix of known names and potential discoveries across a wide range of genres spanning from pure entertainment to highly political works and marking the return of erotically charged cinema, as Barbera tells Variety.
It looks like a great lineup. Are you happy?
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