Cate Blanchett is in Venice, where strict hygiene rules and testing for coronavirus will be enforcedParties will be banned, temperature checks are compulsory and film stars will be swabbed but the Venice film festival will do its best to relaunch the cinema industry in style today. The stars Cate Blanchett and Matt Dillon and directors Pedro Almodóvar and Oliver Stone are expected as the world’s oldest film festival becomes the first to relaunch in the flesh after Cannes went virtual in June amid the coronavirus pandemic. “We want to show it can be done, to be a laboratory for other festivals,” Alberto Barbera, its director, told The Times. “Cinema must restart if it is to survive — streaming kept us alive during lockdown but we cannot do without cinema. Venice will be a sign of optimism and an invitation

Source: The Times September 01, 2020 23:04 UTC