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Business as usual at Venice Film Festival? Not even close – Sydney Morning Herald
The famed event has always been long on spectacle and glamour, which is now made all the more conspicuous by its absence.
Before it started, there was a widespread disbelief that an event notable over the years for its muddling organisation would ever manage to orchestrate social distancing. Come the first day, however, it was astonishing to see how the Venice Lido’s cinema precinct had been remade.
Rat runs led in and out of the theatres and bottles of hand sanitiser were everywhere. On all roads leading to the cinemas, just in front of the bag-searchers and the scary officers lolling around with military-style w…
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