Facts and doubts at Venezia 77

Fact: we are much less than usual. (Many) Less journalists, talents and audience (so and so) and then in theaters there’s a lot of room, long cues under the sun are gone, on line booking comes from heaven and allows to arrive at the movies even 30 seconds before the screening and find peacefully your seat.

Fact 2: the path taken by Italian cinema is so tragic that those editions dedicated to precarious work and migrants looks like christmas comedies. There must be a dead, a serious illness, the painful memory of a late relative to be selected at Mostra this year. From The Macaluso Sisters to Marx’s daughter, from pre-opening documentary by Andrea Segre is personal drama to open, develop and close the event’s. Sometimes beautiful, interesting or curious, tragic by the way and according to the atmosphere the virus creates around us.

There are doubts about the contagious happiness of the security that with extreme democracy treats everyone rudely. It does not care whether you are a terrorist, a writer (they confiscated my markers as well…) or a senseless virus-spreader that wants to access without being allowed and just want to unwear his mask in order to cough violently. It’s up to you to prove that you’re innocent and law abiding. But it’s just a way of behaving because we are all happy about safety and virus check and it’s about us all if everything went well until now. And it’s almost mission accomplished.