Venice - Canal Grande – Palazzo Barbaro Lifestyle - Regata Storica Lunch

Venice - Canal Grande – Palazzo Barbaro - Lifestyle - Regata Storica Lunch. For thousands of years the Regata Storica takes place every first Sunday of September, the Canal Grande comes to a standstill and Venetians gather in palazzi to watch and party during this spectacular historical pageant. Typically 16th century-style boats in period costume carry the Doge and high-ranking Venetian officials up the Grand Canal in a brightly colored parade, which today precedes the races. Again this year many palazzi hung banners Venezia e’ Una Vera Citta’ – Venice is a real city - in protest against the degradation of the beautiful and unique Lagoon city.

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Palazzo Barbaro: Lifestyle - Regata Storica - Lunch

Franca Coin president of the Fondazione Canova, the Venice International Foundation and Friends of Venice, Italy, Inc., gave an elegant intimate lunch, at Palazzo Barbaro to celebrate young conductor Michele Gamba, after the performance, the night before, of the opera L’Occasione Fa il Ladro by Rossini at La Fenice Opera House.

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Piergiorgio Coin and Annalisa Bisson

 

   

Yaya Coin and Pepe

Regata Storica

 

Regatta Storica – Lunch

The Menu

Mixed Salad

  green leaves – corn – avocado – baby tomatos – apple

Sardine and Shrimp Tempura

Orange Jelly Mold with Mixed Berries

Apricot and Blackberry Tarts

Col san Martino White and Red Wines

In the center of the elegant table Meissen porcelain eighteenth century figurines adorned a precious Jesurum hand-made Venetian lace tablecloth,  linen napkins sat on fine bone china plates, the rare diamond pattern glasses were made in Murano.

 

Orange Jelly Mold with Mixed Berries

 

Apricot and Blackberry Tarts

  Franca Coin and Paola Forni

Regata Storica

James Lee Byars - 65 Feet tall  - Golden Tower

Mania Hruska

 

Sandro, Rosanna and Michele Gamba

  

Daniela Ferretti  

Regata Storica

Pontile  - Palazzo Barbaro

 

 Regatta Storica

Il Gazzettino - Venezia Mestre

Venezia e’ Una Vera Citta’

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#Venezia74 – La Melodie – Rachid Hami

copyright 2017 – Arnaud Borrel – Mizar Films – courtesy La Biennale di Venezia Cinema

La Melodie  

 Rachid Hami

 In Rachid Hami’s La Melodie with Kad Merad, Samir Guesmi, Alfred Renely, Youssouf Gueye, Shirel Nataf, Claudine Vinasithamby, Zakaria Lazab. Simon, played by Kad Merad is a distinguished, but disillusioned violinist. Arnold (Alfred Renely) is a shy student who is fascinated with the violin and discovers that he has a real talent for it. With Arnold’s raw talent and the joyous energy of his class, Simon gradually rediscovers the joys of music. Together, they will overcome many obstacles and succeed to enroll the class in an end-of-the-year concert at the prestigious Paris Philharmonic.

http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2017

“ It is not just about cinema and social phenomenon. La Melodie reflects the desire to put into words and pictures the faith in life and art against the determinisms (poverty, violence, abandonment, cynicism, etc.) everybody tries to escape, and the urge to depict as accurately as possible life’s disillusions in order to better understand what drives hope.”

Rachid Hami

Director

 Contessnally – Touching story – 7/10

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Accreditation Area

 

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#Venezia74 – Film Festival – Red Carpet - Suburbicon – George Clooney

  Photograph by ASAC courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

Red Carpet

George and Amal Clooney

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Red Carpet

Matt Damon

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Red Carpet

Julianne Moore

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Suburbicon

George Clooney

George Clooney’s Suburbicon stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, Oscar Isaac, which is a peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns... the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. But the tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town’s dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices. This is Suburbicon.

http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2017

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“This is a film I wanted to make because I liked the themes. It seemed like a good time to talk about building fences and scapegoating minorities, but wrapped in a weird thriller. I always loved the idea of a murder in a perfect town and everyone looking in the wrong direction. It’s a story of a time and place that unfortunately we never really have gotten away from.”

George Clooney

Director

Contessanally – Brilliant thriller subtly political – 8/10

Lido – Early Morning

The Beach

Quattro Fontane and  Hotel Excelsior

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#Venezia74 – Venice Film Festival - Golden Lions Awards – Red Carpet - Our Souls at Night - Ritesh Batra

Photograph by ASAC courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

Red Carpet

Robert Redford and Jane Fonda

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Red Carpet

Paolo Baratta president of La Biennale di Venezia

Alberto Barbera  director  of La Biennale di Venezia Cinema

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Golden Lions Awards

La Biennale di Venezia - Cinema

 Jane Fonda and Robert Redford are the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 74th Venice Film Festival 2017.

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  Photograph by Kerry Brown – courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

Our Souls at Night

Ritesh Batra

From the novel Our Souls at Night by Kent Haruf, Ritesh Batra’s film with Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, Bruce Dern, Matthias Schoenaerts, Judy Greer. Addie Moore has a most unusual proposal for Louis Waters. They are both past retirement age and widowed for some time. They both live in a quiet Colorado town where the best thing is that everyone knows everyone. And the worst thing is that everyone knows everyone. Although they’ve been longtime neighbors, their acquaintance is hardly more than casual, until one day Addie proposes that they sleep together—purely for the companionship, to have someone to talk to in the dark, to sense the presence of another soul in close proximity, to help sleep come easier. When Louis agrees, Addie is both surprised and delighted. What they discover in the relative dark of night, they reveal through the stories they tell each other, history that’s long buried. It’s only by confessing their past to one another that they can shed the guilt of lost opportunities—words and emotions thought but never expressed—and move past the devastating effect the absence of love can have on a life and into the beautiful effect finding love again can have in life’s final chapter.

  Photograph by Kerry Brown – courtesy La Biennale di Venezia

“Working with the actors and the land to tell Haruf’s story of this cycle of love and loss that is life, just made me more certain that stuff of great literature exists nowhere else but in our everyday lives, as it always has.”

Ritesh Batra

Director

 Contessanally – Most enjoyable – 7/10

Palazzo del Casino

Press Room Wi-Fi Area

 

 

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