Venice rolls for the film festival the red carpet – FAZ – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

In normal years you realize at a film festival is not much of world politics. But 2016 is not a normal year. So the days begin in Venice with heightened security. Around the festival palace police barriers are erected. But not only the terrorist attacks of recent months overshadow glitters meeting the film industry. The consequences of the earthquake in Italy are still hanging like a shadow over the opening day.

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Damien Chazelle, the young director of the opening film “La La land”, speaks on Wednesday first of all concerned his condolences before he answers questions about his musical. The big opening party in the evening has been canceled due to the mourning for the earthquake victims. And also the red carpet rolled out this year nothing like target addition

Emma Stone is -. Ryan Gosling is not

In Venice the carpet is not already as red as in Cannes. There, the movie stars prancing about Europop anthems to their album launch parties, what the gala performances takes the stiffness. Venice, however, has received the oldest film festival in the world has always been something set. But this year they switched up a gear back. Actors and directors go partly to muted jazz numbers to the fans over who persevere to the fence for a long time.

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Many hoped for a spontaneous appearance of Hollywood beau Ryan Gosling, who showed in the musical “La La land” that he can not only dance, but also quilting and sing. But Gosling did not – filming of “Blade Runner II” keep him in Budapest firmly. So Emma Stone has put the fans without her co-star. She does a lot of time and attention. No Selfie is knocked out, no signature denied -. In a silvery outfit that recalls the hem a bit of tinsel

Italian Models show a lot of skin

From this facility could be a little more tolerated. But Emma Stone is the shining exception. Only the German actress Nina Hoss still dabbles in glamor with a floral embroidered brocade dress. Your jury colleague Chiara Mastroianni contrast comes right in pants and sweaters. The only people who take their appearance more than seriously, the Italian models, the almost obligatory belong here on the red carpet and with much leg or cleavage – optionally also both – put their name in the press

Two make it: Bianca Balti wears an open to the waist black trench coat and apparently nothing underneath. And Barbara Palvin seems just decided to have wrapped in the white ruffled curtain of her hotel. That would not be worth mentioning alone, would not have their own tow Aufplüscher in tow behind her kneeling tried every five meters to pull out of the tulle a drape. In point quirky Model performances at the opening night so everything remains the same.

             
         
                     
                 
                                                                                                                         
 
                 
                                                                                                          Emma Stone starring in the musical” La La land “, which opened the 73rd film Festival , On the red carpet she took shortly before the premiere still plenty of time for their fans who waited in some cases since the morning she and co-star Ryan Gosling. But he was prevented by shooting in Budapest.
                                         
 
                     
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A new feature has Filmfest then but still proclaiming: Before the festival palace, where for more than five years gaped a huge Bauloch, you have finally managed to build a new cinema. Originally there would have a cellar under the vault will be created. The construction work, however, they came across asbestos residues.

Proud of the red cube

A professional removal of illegal building dust would have the cost of the million project at least doubled. Where he came from, no one could find out. But he was there and stayed there. So the international film world staring each year of the marble steps of the Festival Palace in the fenced asbestos Bauloch.

In its place now stands a red cube, the garden cinema “Sala Giardino”, surrounded by rolling lawns, the one more trimmed day before the start of the festival and has been watered. As necessary, the Lido and the Biennale have this success is reflected in how the Festival President Paolo Baratta praises the construction. The new hall is a stone over a past that could never pass right. And the international press he adds on Wednesday added: “It may be a year of drama – for us it is also a year of success.”