At the halfway point the expected McDonagh, Kore-da sparigliano the odds while Aronofsky is rejected by a fierce critic. International criticism crowns instead Guillermo del Toro with The Shape of Water

Lido di Venezia Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful - Photo courtesy of Biennale.

We begin dale failures sound of the hall. The DARREN ARONOFSKY film – MOTHER! It was long awaited but it proved not

tune with the audience. If the first part is convincing with a screenplay schema tested: the situation seemingly happy that our characters live in a huge secluded residence is abruptly interrupted by the unexpected like a dream of an alleged surgeon. What secrets hide? The story is complicated by the arrival of other characters, in a crescendo of nonsense. Although his wife try to defend that the apparent reality the situation gets out of hand. So far nothing to say. E 'in the second part of the author's imagination is rampant and shows thanks to the poet protagonist of the story his irrepressible self-centeredness (ed director). And 'This is the key to the film but ends with a massive flop. The hall was not gentle to him and sorry attend tones justicialism, mainly due to a secular view of the audience. Even some have speculated references to Madonna. Instead of childbirth seems to us that it is that every artist can not escape, and then who knows if the final is not deliberately banal to remember the human smallness? So what can be saved even if the script is so complicated that they can not be compared to the most beautiful films seen in this exhibition. (REVIEW)

A completely different reaction has taken the film MARTIN MCDONAGH – THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI which uses certain prejudices about the power of the Church (defined a gang) and police cockiness. The protagonist is a hippie mother who does not surrender to failure to justice for the heinous crime of rape suffered by his daughter and the young sfociatonell'assainio. On this gloomy background the director with several jokes manages to play down sometimes getting applause. The finish is not quite obvious and the two characters in the story have been fighting by all means finally find a moment of empathy. (REVIEW)

From the East the last KOREEDA HIROKAZU film – SANDOME NO SATSUJIN (THE THIRD MURDER) that is the theme of Justice in Japan aimed at those who administer justice. A sad page told with delicacy in the dialogues between the two confessed and defender. Marina fearful about it wrote (REVIEW).

Finally always in competition a fresco of the great American library to serve the public, artists and all those looking for something more tangible than a simple search on the internet. And 'the film FREDERICK WISEMAN – EX LIBRIS. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY that lasts well 197 '. Also from Marina we report his impressions (REVIEW)

Instead the Horizons section an exhilarating glimpse of the consequences of the ongoing conflict between Arabs and Israelis in TZAHI GRAD film which is also the star of HA BEN DOD (THE COUSIN). The cousin of a mason replaces COMMISSIONED for a work by an Israeli practitioner. The result is an unusual story that only the Israelis are capable of doing. Irony of the difficult situation in Israel. Also from Horizons a delicate film that too on the lack of communication of a seemingly normal family. The beauty of the film shot during a snow storm shows a child looking for family care The two directors DAMIEN MANIVEL, IGARASHI KOHEI hanno explained that the subject of WHERE THE NIGHT I swam – OYOGISUGITA YORU It is based precisely on their desire to make a film on the snow and on the family. Below is the Q&A after the screening: (VIDEO)

Finally for Venice Days SARA FORESTIER M presents with a history of lack of communication in a love story A delicate love story first

person in the meeting by the director after the screening: (VIDEO)

Here adesoo ranking of international criticism of CIAK the first five films:

GUILLERMO DEL TORO – THE SHAPE OF WATER

MARTIN MCDONAGH – THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

FREDERICK WISEMAN – EX LIBRIS. THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

SAMUEL MAOZ – FOXTROT

ALEXANDER PAYNE – DOWNSIZING