IS a long history of photos, that of Venice Film Festival. Now 90 years old – but with 79 official editions – the event that in 1936 moved permanently to the Lido and the Film Festival oldest in the world – as those who want to give themselves a tone say. So a lot of people have passed, and how. Many have passed too styles, fashions, rituals of revelry and topos of the star’s photographs. Like the one of the shots by the sea and the all-Venetian variant of the beautiful in a gondola thrown into the Grand Canal (today your feet in the water just puts them there godmother on opening day, very dressed and very controlled by agents and publicists).
And yet, in the dictatorship of the red carpet and photocall – where, unfortunately, to fish for a gesture, a grimace, a striking pose, you have to pray – the photo of the exhibition that still does dreaming, sighing, damn yourself not being able to get your hands on us is that of a dead man.
That is Paul Newman resumed as Venus emerging from the waters of the Adriatic Sea. Even though other beautiful men (Clooney, Pitt…) came down to the Lido after him, we are still at blue eyes on space physicist immortalized in a photo in black and white. Because Paul’s reruns never seen again, and because the sense of an epochal shot has ended with the phones that take pictures.
Paul Newman at the Venice Film Festival in 1963. (Getty Images)
Sophia Loren, Lady Gaga, Liz Taylor at the Venice Film Festival
And what about women? We still dwell on it Sophia Loren serving fish in the restaurant, Monica Vitti (dead / 2) pensive and elusive in a taxi, Liz Taylor (dead / 3) glass – who knows how many – in hand and air of great revelry. Always on the 50s and 60s, in short. So it takes genius and a sense of glamor to become one today photo news of the exhibition.
To overcome the giants and remain in the memory, we need to study the fundamentals. Water, in fact. And do like Lady Gagawhich in 2018, in a city where people travel on boats, towards the Excelsior she placed herself aboard the motorboat. Heels and kisses in the wind, as if the world were still to the last century of Liz and Sophia.
Of course, A star is born it was a wreck of the twentieth century, and treading on the Hollywood sense of status with such a film was easy. But what a scene, the last one before the sadness following the pandemic, with the stars closed in the house and the billboard halved. However, hope is on the rise, especially afterwards Timothée Chalamet stormed last year for DunesAnd Ben Affleck and Jlo sweethearts returning before 8 thousand weddings and love serenades.
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