As the festival draws to a close on Saturday, the competition has not shone with its American stars, with the exception of Adrien Brody.
Smiles turned to grimaces. The cohort of Hollywood stars announced on the red carpet of the Venice Film Festival electrified the festival-goers. Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Brad Pitt… We see beautiful people on the Lido. But the journalists see them from afar, as these actresses and actors are giving few or no interviews this year.
In an open letter claiming a hundred signatories, relayed by specialist magazines (Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Screen International), journalists have denounced this limited or non-existent access to artists, already degraded in the big international festivals by the “junkets”, these timed and assembly-line interviews (“you have ten minutes including photo”) or reduced to quickly dispatched and tasteless press conferences.
Hollywood Obsession
The trend is also noticeable in Cannes, where “talents” are increasingly calling in sick, “muses” often busier than ever honouring their contracts with…
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