Venice Film Festival Launch Party Honors Alberto Barbera, as Bong Joon Ho Makes Grand Entrance as Jury President

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On Tuesday night, the eve of the 78th annual Venice Film Festival, Variety hosted a rooftop party at the Hotel Danieli honoring fest topper Alberto Barbera and the Biennale, its parent organization…

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The event’s theme was “Stairway to Parasite,” a tribute to director Bong Joon Ho, this year’s Venice Jury President, who posed for paparazzi and mingled with fellow jurors Virginie Efire, Cynthia Erivo and with guests including Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher and supermodel Madisin Rian. The DJ mixed lounge music with vintage Italian hits such as popstar Gianni Morandi’s 1960s love song “In ginocchio da te” which features in a key “Parasite” scene.

Barbera underlined that, thanks to the Biennale’s support, for the past 10 years he’s been working on an ambitious project: “to bring back to Venice the prestige that it had in the past and to redefine the festival’s profile.”Barbera added that he’s also managed to “bring back to Venice most of the film professionals that in the past had decided to skip it to go somewhere else, for example: Toronto.

 

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