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Kerry Hayes courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Venice Lido: 72nd Film Festival –
Thomas McCarthy – Spotlight. Thomas
McCarthy’s movie Spotlight tells the riveting true story of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe
investigation that would rock the city and cause a crisis in one of the world’s
oldest and most trusted institutions. When the newspaper’s tenacious
“Spotlight” team of reporters delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic
Church, their year-long investigation uncovers a decades-long cover-up at the
highest levels of Boston’s religious, legal, and government establishment,
touching off a wave of revelations around the world.
Staring: Michael
Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Stanley Tucci, Liev Schreiber, Brian
d’Arcy James.
http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/
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ASAC courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Spotlight –
Red Carpet – Mark Ruffolo
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Kerry Hayes courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Spotlight – Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo
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ASAC courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Spotlight –
Red Carpet – Stanley Tucci
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Kerry Hayes courtesy La Biennale di Venezia
Spotlight – Thomas McCarthy
Director’s Statement: Spotlight is an ode to the kind of high-end
investigative reporting that is in severe deficit today, especially on a local
level in the United States. The “Spotlight” team’s 2001/2002 investigation into
the cycle of child abuse within the Catholic Church and the systematic cover-up
that allowed that abuse to exist, even thrive, was so thoroughly executed that
it immediately impacted, not only Boston, but the entire world. However today,
the newspaper industry in the US has been decimated and there remains no clear
substitute for the value that newspapers, such as the Boston Globe, provide to
their readership. The situation is dire. I was raised Catholic. I went to
school in Boston. I have friends who were abused by priests, some of whom are
mentioned in this film. I also continue to see how much good the Catholic
Church does. And how many good people, Clergy and Lay are associated with the
church. I connected to this story on a very personal level and my principal
hope is that of any decent journalist: to tell the story and to tell it right.
#Venezia 72
Thomas McCarthy – Spotlight
Contessanally – superb investigating – 8/10
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