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Alberto Barbera on the Return of Erotic Cinema in Venice, U.S. Indie Movies and Netflix Being MIA
Alberto Barbera discusses the return of erotic cinema at the Venice Film Festival and the absence of Netflix.
The Lido’s upcoming 81st edition features a geographically balanced mix of known names and potential discoveries across a wide range of genres spanning from pure entertainment to highly political works and marking the return of erotically charged cinema, as Barbera tells Variety. You said earlier today that sexuality is back in Venice “in all its forms, heterosexual, homosexual, fluid, sadomasochistic, and adolescent,” marking “a true return to eroticism after years of respectability and self-censorship.” Can you elaborate? And the fact that Daniel Craig lent himself to a couple of very explicit erotic sequences is a sign of great courage in an era in which these behaviors are still rejected by a significant part of the audience.
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