Venice Film Festival: Opening: Telling your dreams not – Tagesspiegel

Meanwhile, they have filled in the hole, il grande buco is history. Many years reminded the asbestos-contaminated excavation on the site of Filmfest Venice of corruption, mafia and real estate speculation, now stands as a bright red cube on bright green meadow. So grass grows over the stain on the Lido, and an additional cinema, the festival has also provisionally cobbled together, like other Mostra venues also. Biennale President Paolo Barrata thanked the welcome address at the city council for the speed with which it has solved the problem. What appears strange that mine was but already excavated for the planned new festival palace 2008 – il cubo and the scandal was no end

Il buco,:. The Italian transposed letters and the red cinema cube is now the idea of ​​a completely new palace history. Venice settles in its preliminaries, the cinema was designed by ephemeral art. The old, snow-white Palazzo del Cinema, which dates from Mussolini’s time, wearing his best red facade sequins showcased, along with the aquamarine balustrades the 73rd Mostra has missed a nationally-colored design. Only the anti-terror concrete bollards on the access roads disturb the serene picture. Italy celebrates, Italy mourns Italy accuses. Because of the earthquake of Amatrice the opening reception was canceled, the Festival hotels donate ten euro per dinner to the Red Cross. Not the earthquake is to blame for the almost 300 dead, people are to blame, the authorities, the newspaper quoting the sharp words of the Bishop during the state funeral on Tuesday

Also, the Festival sets of solidarity from -. And shows opening nevertheless a musical. This too is cinema, “La La Land”, a candy-colored parallel world with dancing and singing as the days of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire. A film about Dreamer says director Damien Chazelle ( “Whiplash”). About Mia and Sebastian, the kellnernde actress and verkrachten jazz pianists who try their luck in L.A., find love and lose it again. While Mia rushes vain Audition Audition, Sebastian is hired only for Bargeklimper or as a keyboardist. Free Jazz? Old news. Meanwhile, Chazelle enriches in the facilities, in costumes, cars and set in glorious Technicolor look. Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling quilting in the evening light over Hollywood, sing broken hearts, hold hands at the movies, float in the Griffith Observatory in the starry sky and go their separate ways, as it still uphill with the career.

“La la land “(German Start:. 15:12) evokes the good old Hollywood and reflects on the roots of the entertainment industry in pre-digital times, similar to 2011, the oscar awarded” the Artist “. “They worship everything, but they do not know to appreciate,” says Sebastian once. So much self-criticism must be. Unfortunately lacks the elegance and ease of musicals of the past, even in the opening sequence. Jam on the highway, gradually leave all drivers humming and prancing their cars and get mobilized to uncut open-air choreography, without the effort and logistics ever ignore would that require such tracking shot.

Do not betray your dreams. Even better would if Chazelle would not reveal his characters to the decor would. The spell remains dull, although Emma Stone can visualize whole life dramas in their facial features and Ryan Gosling has waived a pianist-Double. surprisingly well for a few months teaching he plays the piano.