Movies, vampires and September 8th in “la Lettura” – Corriere.it

Cinema’s glimpses of the condemnations and sacrifices, beauties and tragedies of the planet: with a special dedicated to the 80th Venice Film Festivalwhich takes place from August 30th to September 9th, opens the new edition of «la Lettura», n. 612, on Saturday, August 19th in the app and Sunday, August 20th in the kiosk.

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Four films bring vampires to the screen in the various reviews of the festival, as Cecilia Bressanelli’s service shows: below To count From Pablo Larraín shows a vampire Pinochet, symbol of all injustices.

Laura Zangarini writes about the film L’expérience Zola by Gianluca Matarrese, while the director Morzaniel Iramari, a member of the Yanomami ethnic group, tells Angelo Ferracuti about his Amazonia, to which the exhibition dedicates a focus. The director Agnieszka Holland then illustrated them for Stefania Ulivi green border, on human trafficking on the border between Poland and Belarus. And in the «la Lettura» app, on Saturday, August 19, an extra by Simone Innocenti will be dedicated to the border in literature, while on Sunday, August 20, another focus by Vincenzo Trione will be dedicated to the theme of the border in the visual arts dedicated to art.

The armistice of September 8, 1943 was signed 80 years ago. How to deal with it: the conversation between the historians Elena Aga Rossi, Filippo Focardi and Alessandra Tarquini, edited by Antonio Carioti; also the interventions of the philologist Donatella Puliga and the historian Marco Cuzzi.

Among the books is Viviana Mazza’s interview with the author Gay Talese, returning to American bookstores at 91, reflecting on the United States today. Imaginary Geographies in the Book by Cynthia Rimsky Yomuri (Ediciones kiosk), reviewed by Vanni Santoni.