The Venice Film Festival has kicked off amid blazing sun on the island of the Lido, opening with large-scale thrills in the form of Baltasar Kormakur’s 3D disaster-adventure pic Everest. The festival screens some classics of sensationalism this year, honouring Scarface director and king of ‘80s excess Brian de Palma with a tribute and showing a restored print of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s intensely controversial Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom. But all eyes are mainly on…
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