Venice – "Ovsyanki" (Silent Souls), Russian director Aleksei Fedorchenko's in-competition drama of a factory worker's poetic and folkloric farewell to his dead wife, was among the Saturday highlights at the Venice Film Festival.
The festival also featured the world premiere of Carlo Mazzacurati's comedic drama "La passion" (The Passion), one of four Italian films in competition. It was the second film in three years on the Venice Lido for the 54-year-old Mazzacurati, following the 2008 success of "La giusta distanza" (The Right Distance), which won Venice's Gugliemo Biraghi collateral prize.
And Saturday also saw the world premiere of "Jean Gentil," from Laura Amelia Guzman and Israel Cardenas, the moving story of a Haitian immigrant's struggles in the neighboring Dominican Republic. The film, which screened in Venice's Orizzonti sidebar, is the first-ever Dominican film to screen on the Lido.
But it was "Ovsyanki" that created the most buzz Saturday, immediately sparking...
The festival also featured the world premiere of Carlo Mazzacurati's comedic drama "La passion" (The Passion), one of four Italian films in competition. It was the second film in three years on the Venice Lido for the 54-year-old Mazzacurati, following the 2008 success of "La giusta distanza" (The Right Distance), which won Venice's Gugliemo Biraghi collateral prize.
And Saturday also saw the world premiere of "Jean Gentil," from Laura Amelia Guzman and Israel Cardenas, the moving story of a Haitian immigrant's struggles in the neighboring Dominican Republic. The film, which screened in Venice's Orizzonti sidebar, is the first-ever Dominican film to screen on the Lido.
But it was "Ovsyanki" that created the most buzz Saturday, immediately sparking...
- 9/4/2010
- by By Eric J. Lyman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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