Mattarella writes to Emanuela Fanelli at the Venice Film Festival: “Cinema is important, the world needs human solidarity”

Before the President of the Republic of Toni Servillo appears on the screen in the film Grace by Paolo Sorrentino, there is the true President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella at the Venice Film Festival. A presence evoked thanks to Emanuela Fanelli, the presenter (no longer godmother) who closes the opening ceremony by reading her exchange of letters with the head of state: “I would like to ask her to participate in the video for the Venice exhibition I could tell her that it would be loved but she is already, venturing a rivalry with Scalfaro saying that he would do it but I don’t think he would work”. The president sent an answer, kindly declining the invitation to participate in the video: «Dear Mrs. Fanelli, I don’t know more significant word than” dear “. I trust that he cannot participate in his monologue, the world of entertainment is made by professionals and even for a cameo there is no actors, especially at my age ». And again: «I wish to ask her to give my best wishes to the Venice Film Festival. Cinema is part of the essential cinema of Italian culture and expresses its genius in the world; It transmits and consolidated beauty, hope, values. The contribution of cinema is particularly precious in this period in the life of the world which often manifests the need to recover cultural solidity and a sense of human solidarity ».

Emanuela Fanelli had said it and did it: no message on Gaza From the stage of the Biennale, because “I cannot go on stage, with a wonderful dress and very expensive jewels, and to say two phrases just to say: it would seem almost a gesture made for myself, rather than for the cause”. But his opening speech is political in the wide sense. The theme is empathy, and it is difficult not to think of Palestine: «Cinema is a school of emotions. At the cinema we send our best human version. We rejoice for the happiness of others as if it were ours, we suffer from the pains of others as if they were ours. Let’s think if we could bring that empathy to our lives, to hear lives of others as if they were ours. It would be easier and less unfair to stay in the world ». But there is also room for irony and lightness: “If the films are here it is because they have not been taken to Cannes”, the sharp joke.

Then there is the golden lion to the career to the legendary German director Werner Herzogawarded by Francis Ford Coppola. The two giants of cinema embrace each other. Coppola says: «I am here to praise Herzog and it is not enough, because it is truly a phenomenon that has worked in all the cinema sectors. I have never seen films like his, all different from each other. He invented categories that I still don’t think they have a name. This is only a small part of its extraordinary production. He did everything he could do, he is an encyclopedia of cinema ».

The president of the jury Alexander Payne says that “every film will be a miracle, cinema itself is a miracle”. In the jury of the Venice82 competition, in addition to the president, there are the French director and screenwriter Stéphane Brizé, The Italian director and screenwriter Maura Delpero, The Romanian director, screenwriter and producer Cristian Mungiu, The Iranian director and writer Mohammad Rasoulof, The actress, Brazilian writer and screenwriter Fernanda Torres and the Chinese actress Zhao Tao. At the start today with Grace of Sorrentino, welcomed by applause to the screening for journalists.

Source: Vanity Fair

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