#political-cinema

#political-cinema

But the films themselves struck a different note. Jury president Alexander Payne may have rebutted questions about current affairs during his opening press conference, declaring himself concerned only with discussing cinema, but cinema at Venice this year was concerned largely, it turned out, with discussing current events. The big hits of the festival were both nailbiting ticking-clock stories directed by women that tackled real-world situations of such tragedy and magnitude that many people shy from discussing them, let alone make a movie about them.