Unfortunately, the teacher no longer recognizes him. It must be told the truth that the film is a good copy of the other Italian documentary Spira Mirabilis which passed yesterday, also on the meaning of Life and Creation (for those who believe in it obviously). Let's say that it would be enough to go back to the Bible but most people know that the latter is inconvenient! Also the other eagerly awaited film by Pablo Larraín about the days following the assassination of J.F. Kennedy from the First Lady's unexplored perspective

leaves you perplexed for the use of the melò in such circumstances. Perhaps the director with his critical gaze turns to the America of Johnson who took over in a hurry in a dramatic moment. Regrettable are the crude horror scenes of the moments following the assassination which show President JFK in all his fragility as a human being. A question to the director about the budget who spared no expense. Perhaps we find the answer in Larrain's own presentation:  “A bullet pierced the president's neck; a second bullet, lethal, it shattered the right side of his skull… The thirty-four year old wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, was sitting next to him.". “Sitting by his side”. What was all this for her? We all know the story of the assassination of John F. Kennedy. But what if we only focus on her? The rumors at the Mostra consider him to be in a good position, for us only two thirds of the first 10. As often happens, however, the surprises come from films out of competition which for various reasons did not find a place. This is exactly the case OUTSIDE

COMPETITION of the doc Austerlitz by Sergei Loznitsa. This director also used black and white to represent one of the symbolic places of absolute evil that will never happen again. Are a number of paintings in which fixed the goal keeps track of the behavior of visitors in front of so many atrocities. In this digital age it is unfortunately no place for selfies, perhaps in front of the crematoria, but there is no longer room to be horrified by so much atrocity. Now Director Barbera has underlined the peculiarity of the indirect form used by the selected directors. This is a striking case with the fixed frame technique because it forces the viewer to reflect inexorably on those events of the recent past., yet as current as for example in the Syrian conflict. Always a historical film on a curiosity of the peace treaty between Irish Catholics and Protestants after the years of IRA separatist terrorism. From Great Britain the film The Journey by Nick Hamm

with two exceptional actors Timothy Spall and Colm Meaney as the leaders of the opposing factions, the Protestant leader who cannot forgive the terrorist. Now elderly people on a car trip forced by their collaborators must find a satisfactory solution. Comments the good director: It's a story of Northern Ireland, but it is also more. If two sworn enemies like them managed to put aside their hatred and come together, others can do it too. The atrocities of terrorism in recent years have glorified extremism and intransigence has become the world's modus operandi. This film aims to be a response to this type of ethics. It is a militant film about the idea of ​​peace and wants to celebrate the beauty of compromise and the ability to make concessions. My hope is that The Journey, which is based on a true story, imagine not only what has been but also what could be in the future. For the ORIZZONTI section another unpronounceable Argentine title Kékszakállú by Gastón Solnicki borrowed and freely inspired by Béla Bartók's only opera. It is really difficult to find the source if it were not for the music and the final scene of the opera house. Worlds addicted to existential boredom, but also to the perennial economic crisis. The other documentary film

Liberami by Federica Di Giacomo talks about exorcism in the contemporary world. And we focus "from the outside" on the salvific work of Father Cataldo, an exorcist friar who works in Sicily, where it is among the most sought after.History of the practice exorcism with daily life, where the contrasts between ancient and contemporary, religious and profane will be the more disturbing traits and at times hilarious.  But in the background the discomfort of life in search of themselves. A film about how religion can be experienced. The director explains that the film is the result of extensive research into exorcist practice. The exorcist is a new healer, often the last resort after a via crucis of magicians, psychiatrists and alternative remedies, metaphor of a society in which the important thing is to find a cure, quick and decisive. Even at the cost of giving ourselves over to someone who calls us "Satan". I chose to tell this story from the point of view of those who live it every day. Because exorcists are appointed by bishops and their lives are completely transformed. And the so-called "possessed" are ordinary people who approach the Church at a critical moment in their lives. Their experience is emancipated, then, from horror imagery and acquires a complexity in which there is also room for irony.Thursday 8 September was the day of recovery for VENICE 73 where the highly acclaimed Paradise by Andrei Konchalovsky was presented in a plot of three

stories that intersect in the devastation of the absolute evil of the last century: Olga, Jules and Helmut. This film is also shot entirely in black and white. however, it suffers from a certain melodramatic air that makes you lose the initial force. The film received a stand ovation from the audience in the Great Hall in the presence of the director and the beautiful female interpreter. Here if not the Golden Lion we expect the award for the protagonist. The director's intent is instructive and far-sighted: History is full of great tragedies, most of which appear to us as ancient misdeeds that could no longer happen today. One of the most terrible moments in the history of our generation was the rise of the Nazi Party and the extermination of millions of Jews and other people who did not fit the Nazi ideal of a "perfect German paradise". Such atrocities demonstrated how far the wickedness of human beings can go. Although these events happened in the past, today the same radical and hateful way of thinking that threatens the lives and safety of many individuals around the world is returning to the fore. Paradise reflects on a twentieth century full of great illusions buried beneath the ruins, about the dangers of the rhetoric of hatred and the need for human beings to use the power of love to triumph over evil. On the same day, Giuseppe Piccioni's third Italian film in competition was presented, These days.  Dai

hot comments come out as a great disappointment. The belief remains that Italian cinema is going through a moment of great crisis and has turned in on itself, suffering from difficulty finding its way. Documentary filmmakers who have established themselves in the international field lend a hand, but at home they are not adequately supported. It won't help but other European productions are also suffering. This is precisely the case of the French film OUT OF COMPETITION Planetarium by Rebecca Zlotowski. Well constructed film with a considerable budget as it takes us back to the

1930s. A film about esotericism, but also a tribute to cinema itself with many quotes. The cast has to give answers to a thousand questions. According to the director, it is the stylization of a world like ours in which we never know what is about to change. On the margins of Europe there is Turkey which presented its only film Koca Dünya in the ORIZZONTI section (Big Big World) di Rehab Erdem. A hermetic and elegiac story with simple connotations that tells us about that society and suffers from the lack of freedom of expression by taking refuge in generalist themes.Finally in the morning the BIANCHI PRIZE was awarded to Ugo Gregoretti with the screening of a gem in homage to the pedagogue of Italy as Gregoretti himself calls himself the 30' short film CON UGO by Gianfranco Pannone and the screening of a rediscovered but unrestored copy of MAGGIO MUSICALE by 1989. It was very pleasant to listen to the witty director talk about himself with his usual irony.Tomorrow, the last day of screenings, the marathon awaits us Lav Diaz con ang under Humayo (The Woman Who Left) just 225', but also the expected Na mlijecnom putu (On the Milky Road) by Emir Kusturica with Monica Bellucci and much more.