(Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful and Annamaria Stramondo- Photos are published courtesy of ASAC Biennale)

Pending that juries have ruled we propose other pills from the Venice Lido gathered by Annamaria Stramondo and his personal predictions

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AHERDADE TIAGO di Albano Jeronimo Guedes, Sandra Faleiro, Miguel Borges, Ana da Costa Vilela, Joao Vicente, Joao Pedro Mamede / Portugal, France / 166′

A Herdade of TiagoGuedes is the saga of a Portuguese family followed in their tight-estates from the forties to the years novavanta. Beautiful as well as good performers but…. it seems that even the tough half-century projection.

It could be a twentieth century in the Portuguese version but it has not succeeded in (ed)

Director's Statement: La 'homestead', which originates from the Latin 'hereditas', this film is a kingdom dominated by a charismatic and progressive man, in a country subjected to a fascist dictatorship. The site serves as a metaphor for what happens to our extraordinary protagonist. Both the properties that man, both initially grandiose, with the passage of time are inevitably destined to clash with the winds of change, to reveal the imperfections, the gray areas, and to collapse. Throughout the course of life, the choices we make define us, but we bring with us something that we can not perceive or to review. Something that is born with us, we have inherited. This film tells of the inevitable connections that define us and influence us.

GLORY OF THE WORLD Robert Guédiguian Ariane Roundworm, Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Ana’is Demoustier, Robinson Stévenin, Lola Naymark / France, Italy / 107′

Robert Guedeguian with Gloria Mundi does not reach the heights of the Snows of Kilimanjaro. The director's approach and its established team of actors, Ariane Ascaride, Darroussin and all other, social issues are always honest and fully aware of the violated rights and individual and collective struggles. Unfortunately, it looks like a film already seen.

Director's Statement: Paraphrasing Marx: wherever kingdoms, neocapitalism crushed fraternal relations, friendly and supportive, and left no other nexus between people, if not the cold interest and money, drowning all our dreams into the icy water of egotistical calculation. Here's what you want to prove this cruel social story through the story of a stepfamily, fragile as a house of cards. I always thought that cinema should move us, sometimes by giving an example of the world as it could be, other times showing us the world as it is. In short, we need both comedies or tragedies to continue to question our lifestyle. And we must continue to ask ourselves more than ever in these difficult times, not to succumb to the illusion that there is something natural in the society we live in.

WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS CIRO GUERRA with Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi / Italy / 104′

Waiting for the Barbarians di Ciro Guerra, It has a little 'disappointed. Not enough icy Johnny Deep and a charming Mark Rylance to make the masterpiece that was expected. There is an unjustified slowness that makes it appear the work of the weak version of the Desert of the Tartars of Valerio Zurlini he could make the metaphysical atmosphere of Buzzati. Here Coetzee's novel is only a pale imitation.

Director's Statement: When we started working on the adaptation of the novel J. M. Coetzee, I thought that the story was set in a world and in a time far. however, while he is shooting the film proceeded, the distance in time and space has been reduced more and more. Now that we have concluded, the plot became a story about contemporary.

LAN XIN DA JU YUAN (SATURDA Y FICTION) di LOUYE con Gong Li, Mark Chao, Joe Odagiri, Post l Greggory, Tom Wlaschiha, Huang Xiangli Cina / 126′

Lan Xin Da Ju Yan ci porta a Shangai nel 1941 , an actress is actually a spy and gather information for the Allies. It is a film that overlaps love and affection kept quiet to intrigue. The confusion of oriental features does not always help the viewer and the skill of the performers and the director Lou Ye are not enough to involve him and totally.

Director's Statement: When i was child, I followed my parents who worked behind the scenes at the Lyceum Theater in Shanghai. There I spent many interesting moments; I mixed my actors in costume and watching them play in a variety of roles, to stage the love and hate, separations, life and death. Then I saw them bow out and chat in the dressing room. Li also followed in those moments, when they left the theater to return to real life, monotonous and dull. It was a fantastic experience to live the continuous passage between fiction and reality. Many years later, reading The woman dressed dew Hong Ying (a novel about the period of 'lonely island' Shanghai) aroused in me the same feelings. The first week of December 1941 He changed the history of the world, although people did not know it then,. Unaware of their future, They lived their lives as usual, fell in daily routines and pursuing their own goals. During that time, inside and outside the theater, on the stage and away from the stage, people were slowly approaching the unknown 'Saturday' that would have sealed their fate. This film is about the fate of several people over the years of a complex global crisis. It is also a dialogue with the so-called 'Saturday School', an important current in the history of Chinese contemporary literature.

THE MAFIA IS NOT MORE THAN ONCE of Franco Maresco – Letizia Battaglia, Ciccio Mira / Italy / 105′

It will be as well as some "just a great documentary" but Franco Maresco with The Mafia is no longer what it once was able to bring a smile to the very serious things and manages to reflect on the background music of tune and forget. Letizia Battaglia is the Virgil who acts as a guide in a bright and "dark" Palermo, countering skepticism Maresco his confidence in the possible changes of the city. The memory of Falcone and Borsellino, It does not appear to be able to do miracles but the bright eyes of the Zen girls give a glimpse of possible redemptions. Photography is one of the strong points.

Director's Statement: This film is the inevitable result of Belluscone. A Sicilian history, presented in Venice in 2014. I must admit it was not easy, five years later, go tell your story with inside, Once again, neomelodici the singers and the Mafia. My feeling, But, It is that I went further than the previous films. In an area where the distinction between good and evil, between mafia and anti-mafia, It has cleared and all, by now, It crashed into a show without end and without any sense.

But here is what will be the verdict of the jury chaired by Argentine director Lucretia Martel

Among the many possible rewards is almost a certainty the Golden Lion Joker

Todd Philips, It has been since the beginning of the film the most sponsored by the press, definitely a good movie, not in my comfort zone.

instead J’accuse Roman Polanski is a majestic work that deserves an award. Given the controversy over the film unfortunately it does not mean that

He receives the Golden Lion, but could receive the Silver Lion, recognition perhaps even more significant.

The other movie that I really loved it Glory of the world in Robert Guédiguianwhere Arianne Roundworm with his wife interpretation, ex wife, mothers and workers that gives us is delicate and adhering to the painful reality of many.

And finally I hope to "The Mafia is no longer what it once was"It is given recognition for the irreverent and loud director Franco Maresco.

Anna Maria Stramondo