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Venice Days Unveils Female-Centric Lineup, Including Electropop Pioneer Doc ‘Peaches Goes Bananas’
The independently run Venice Days section has unveiled a female-centric lineup, featuring a doc about electropop pioneer Peaches.
Shot over the course of 14 years, “Peaches Goes Bananas” provides an intimate portrait of the former schoolteacher, who during the 1980s moved from Canada to Berlin and became a queer feminist icon, breaking taboos and “transforming her body into art,” as the doc’s synopsis puts it. It’s a tale told through puppet animation and live-action, inspired by a book of the same title by Bruno Schulz involving a ghostly train journey that transports a man to visit his dying father in a sanatorium at the edge of a mythic forest. Besides “Peaches Goes Bananas,” Venice Days special events include Federica Di Giacomo’s “Open Couple,” a farce about sexual politics in marriage based on a play by Dario Fo, the Nobel Prize-winning Italian playwright and his wife Franca Rame.
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