Venice reclaims spotlight as 1st in-person, COVID-era film festival opens

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The public will be barred from the red carpet, Hollywood stars and films will be largely absent and face masks will be required indoors and out as the Venice Film Festival opens Wednesday.

ROME — Venice is reclaiming its place as a top cultural destination with the opening of the— the first major in-person cinema showcase of the coronavirus era after Cannes canceled and other international festivals opted to go mostly online this year.

Those strict measures are evidence of the hard line Venice and the surrounding Veneto region took to contain the virus when it first emerged in the lagoon city in late February. Unlike neighboring Lombardy, which became the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe, Veneto largely kept the virus under control with early local lockdowns and broad testing once the virus was widespread.

The Sept. 2-12 festival marks Italy’s return to the art world stage after it became the first country in the West to be slammed by COVID. Even Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible 7,” in Venice at the time for three weeks of filming, had to pull out.

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