PICS | Final flourishes on eve of unprecedented Venice Film Festival
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The Venice Film Festival counted down to the movie industry's first post-Covid-19 international competition on Tuesday, with excitement, anxiety and a truckload of coronavirus safety signs still to install. The sound of drills pierced the warm beach-front air as workers went about their last-minute preparations and journalists - all in masks - wandered the freshly laid red carpet, their festival badges suspended from their necks.
"I'm excited and I'm a little bit anxious," acknowledged Barbera, neatly turned out in a pressed blue suit despite the heat. For the past few months across the globe, most film production remained on hold and movie theatres dark due to the coronavirus.About 6 000 people are expected to turn out this year - about half the festival's usual number - as border restrictions around the globe have limited the ability of many to travel.
"But there will be so many good films, 65 from 50 different countries, a sign of the richness and variety of contemporary cinema," he added.
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