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Next to screen isFamilies Like Ours, a Danish climate-change survival epic fromAnother Rounds Thomas Vinterberg.
Then comesThe New Years, a decade-spanning romance from Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen, and finally Joe WrightsM.
Son of the Century, a miniseries about the rise of Benito Mussolini airing on British TV next year.
And these are not lone episodes each series is screening in full.
For these projects, the appeal of launching at a place like Venice is obvious.
Do you know the chaos an entire season of TV inflicts on a film-festival schedule?
However, this arrangement does come with a few side effects.
you’ve got the option to lay blame at Cannes for this, too.
Still, as his first effort sinceRoma,six years ago, it demands attention.
Cate Blanchett plays Catherine Ravenscroft, a British documentarian whos essentially a more benevolent Lydia Tar.
I dont know how to direct TV, Cuaron said.
We approached the whole thing as a film.
To shoot a film takes long, and this was like seven films, he added.
I feel for the actors because they were stuck in those characters for way too long.
With reshoots taken into account, production lasted almost a year.
A tale of heroic endurance, overstretched ambition, and vast expense?
Maybe this thing deserves to be called a movie after all.
