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Lethargy at film fest
AS THE VENICE Film Festival reached its halfway point on Monday, critics were, for once, unanimous: The lineup has been underwhelming.
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After the Coen brothers' ‘Burn After Reading’ opened the festival last week to loud applause from the public and grumbling from critics, a mood of lethargy set in on the event.
The fest has not yet pulled a masterpiece out of its hat, except the Japanese animated feature ‘Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea,’ Hayao Miyazaki's magical retelling of ‘The Little Mermaid.’
Nothing else in competition has emerged an obvious winner.
As usually happens during dry festival years, a lack of big guns has allowed smaller films to emerge from the sidebar jungle.
Claire Denis' delicate father-daughter study ‘35 Shots of Rum’ continues to be talked about, as does Marco Pontecorvo's unsentimental clown tale ‘Pa-Ra-Da.’
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