Venice Film Festival rolls with Hirokazu Kore-eda's The Truth

Iranian auteur Asghar Farhadi made a gem called A Separation in Persian, but when he took his camera to France and made The Past, it was way below a standard he had set for himself. Kore-eda, who has been making lovely movies for the past two decades, sets The Truth in Paris and profiles the relationship between an actress mother, played by Catherine Deneuve, and her married daughter (Juliette Binoche). On a visit to Paris, the daughter gets into a tiff with her mother - a successful actress who is basking in the limelight particularly after the publication of her memoirs. The daughter picks faults in the book - which is made up of half-truths. Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche star in The Truth. The festival on the Lido, a pretty island off Venice, also began on a trail of controversies. It was rapped for including Roman Polanski's An Officer and a Spy and Nate Parker's American Skin. Both directors have been accused of rape. But the festival director, Alberto Barbera, made it clear that he could not let such allegations come in the way of artistic excellence. He would not judge the men, but only their work. Barbera was also accused of having too few women helmers - just two out of the 21 in Competition. He told the media that more women needed to make films, and this essentially was the problem. At a media conference on Thursday, Haifaa Al-Mansour - whose The Perfect Candidate is one of the two movies in Competition - said she believes more funding and support for female film-makers is the simplest way to improve representation. 'There is a crack now, and we see things happening and changing. But it needs to happen at an earlier stage,' she said. 'It starts from financing. It starts with studios opening up their systems to more diverse directors. We've seen a lot of women prove themselves, like Brie Larsonwho is carrying a huge film and showing it can make boxoffice.' (Gautaman Bhaskaran has been covering the Venice Film Festival for over 18 years.) DailyhuntDisclaimer: This story is auto-aggregated by a computer program and has not been created or edited by Dailyhunt. Publisher: Hindustan Timeshttps://anotepad.com/notes/iga6ne3

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