now is and as usual scott roxboro is in venice watching those movies for us welcome scott now pieces of a woman certainly getting a lot lots of attention that film tell us what you thought of it. you know this is quite impressive this movie it's a based on the real life experience of the screenwriter and her partner who is the director of the movie and it's a really powerful look at trauma and loss and led by an incredible cast foremost among them but nasa kirby who really blew me away with this role ok so vanessa kirby we just heard there she's represented in 2 films in competition competition this is quite a festival for her tell us a bit. yeah really the star of this year's festival and for me i have to get a bit of discovery i mean i knew kirby some people who were from the crown her role in the crown i knew were actually in for a small role as an action films like the fast and furious movies here she plays 2 very different roles but 2 completely different scale i mean these are much darker more complex characters than i've ever seen her play on screen before and she's really my

and scott roxboro is in venice watching the movies there for a scope pieces of the woman is getting a lot of attention what do you think about. you know i was blown away by this film it's a really i know rawer unflinching look at trauma and what the loss of a child does not just to the mother but really to the entire family especially if in this case the they are really unable to discuss it to talk about on the actually acting is across the board excellent in the movie particularly for vanessa kirby who's a real revelation for me and my pick for best actress here about us ok well it's very noticeable that female perspectives are much better represented this time around in venice tell us more about what you've seen yet what i find really interesting about the films by female directors that were selected for venice is their diversity i mean they really range across the entire spectrum of the genres and styles of filmmaking everything from historical romance like the world to calm to all the way to modern day political thrillers like the german film they'll be screening later this week a

wow my colleague scott roxboro is following this story scott let's talk a little bit about. and this year's booker prize shortlist this is a very diverse group of authors and yet she still really stands out doesn't she yet definitely not just because of her political activism in the situation that she sent but she's also by far the most experienced writer on this list she's 61 she's been writing for 30 years before getting this recognition i also find her work really interesting particularly knowledge she is nominated for this more of a body because it's a sequel to her 1st novel and it features the same character the character back then was a young girl growing up in pre-independence zimbabwe and this carries on the story many decades later and she becomes a very disillusioned middle aged woman and it's sort of tells the story of zimbabwe from its sort of the hope after independence to sort of the decline in corruption that of course the author itself knows far too well absolutely now what is your take on this year's booker prize shortlist on a whole yeah it's really intere

now with and as usual scott roxboro is in venice watching those movies for us welcome scott now pieces of a woman certainly getting a lot lots of attention that film tell us what you thought of it. you know this is a quite impressive for this movie it's a based on the real life experience of the screenwriter and her partner who is the director of the movie and it's really a wrought powerful look at trauma and loss and led by an incredible cast foremost among them but nasa kirby who really blew me away with this role ok so vanessa kirby we just heard there she's represented in 2 films in competition competition this is quite a festival for her tell us a bit. yeah really the star of this year's festival and for me i have to get a bit of the stuff already i mean i knew kirby some people who are from the crown her role in the crown i knew were actually for small roles in action films like the fast and furious movies here she plays 2 very different roles but 2 completely different scale i mean these are much darker more complex a few more characters than i've ever seen her play on screen be

wow my colleague scott roxboro is following this story scott let's talk a little bit about the diagram and this year's booker prize shortlist this is a very diverse group of authors and yet she still really stands out doesn't she yet definitely not just because of her political activism in the situation that she's in but she's also by far the most experienced writer on this list she's 61 she's been writing for 30 years before getting this recognition i also find her work really interesting particular the knowledge she's nominated for this moral body because it's a sequel to her 1st novel and if you just the same character the character back then was a young girl growing up in pre-independence zimbabwe and this carries on the story many decades later and she becomes a very disillusioned middle aged woman and it's sort of tells the story of zimbabwe from its sort of the hope after independence to sort of the decline in corruption that of course the author itself knows far too well absolutely now what is your take on this year's booker prize shortlist on a whole yeah it's really interesti

and my colleague scott roxboro joins us live from the lido in venice welcome scott there you are and you know this is so crazy banister in a global pandemic so different from what you're used to what's how's it going. yeah it's going surprisingly well here i mean it is odd to be here with a mouse that wear masks in the cinema to have the sort of the smell the scent of disinfectant gel everywhere you go but it actually does still feel like a real film festival and i think that has so much to do with the fact that everybody here the stars like kate blanchett like pedro almodovar like tilda swinton but also all the ordinary film fans and film reviewers here are just desperate for venice to succeed they really are desperate for the film industry to get going again to get restart again and i think that's really creating a wave of optimism here and here at venice well that's great to hear now we've heard in the piece that it's a very political festival this year especially the competition film so what's striking about the lineup for you this time round. yeah it's interesting because usuall

of god did over use film expert scott roxboro with me now scuds are antebellum this looks like a seriously work horror movie yeah i can see call that i mean it's basically of b. horror movie but it's got a really strong political subtext i mean essentially the subtext is that americans original sin of slavery has not gone away but is buried underneath like a like a demon waiting to rain to spring up and wreck havoc right i know one of the producers on this movie is the same her produced jordan people's movie get out a few years back different story one but a really kind of the same themes that works like yeah i think so i mean this is almost a new subject honor of black horror films with social messages which i think people really invented with with with get out and if you member that movie was a black guy who has a white girlfriend and he finds out that his girlfriend supposedly nice white family are secretly slating black people not so nice the the metaphor there is of course underlying racism of supposedly liberal all white people. feel that a similar thing with his 2nd movie which came

joining me one more time from the lido in venice is my colleague scott roxboro scotty so many interesting films out there in the suspense is mounting were there any surprises or new discoveries for you in this year's lineup. yes quite a few surprise i mean this is a very different year in venice because of the court of eyes cut crisis and not so many big hollywood films here but a lot of interesting smaller films to discover and for me one of the great pleasures of coming to festivals like this is finding new talent and particularly new interesting actors this year is a bit different it was finding actors that i thought i knew doing completely different things. for example alec a british actor who you might know from the netflix series stranger things where he plays sort of a russian scientist he was here at the festival with his 1st ever film where he plays a leading role and it's in polish drama called never going to snow again in it. plays a ukrainian masroor who tends to the needs of the rich and shallow in a polish gated community is a very sort of strange and beautiful but also real

roxboro from culture who is standing by for us in venice scott is this a film about. one of the big talking points and how the festival how's it been received. yeah definitely it was one of the most highly anticipated films before the festival and has been really well received i mean it is a fairly conventional documentary it's not super cinematic or anything but its central figure is so compelling and and such a powerful presence on screen that she sort of carries the film along and you do really in this documentary get a bit to know get to know a bit about the personal data to back up we see her with her family we see her traveling particularly with her father who's sort of a comic relief figure in the documentary and i think this picture of a girl who's in some ways a very ordinary teenager makes her incredible accomplishments all the more more astounding i thought it was an incredibly powerful film and gives us a really new insight to this this this global icon. we hear there's been a lot of sort of political themes the films that in the festival this year is the

scott roxboro from delhi of culture who is standing by for us in venice scott i am a bit jealous that you get to be there now the festival is in full swing tell us what have the highlights been so far. yeah well i have to say that my biggest highlight so far has been vanessa kirby british actress maybe you know her as princess margaret on the netflix series the crown and she's here with 2 films and she's just pulled me away in both of their pieces 2 pieces of a woman in which she plays a woman traumatized by the loss of a child and in the world to come she plays a 19th century american pioneer woman who starts a love affair with the the wife of a neighbor both very different roles and both very different than we're used to seeing of an s a kirby and and as i say she just blew me away she's really the star of this festival and i think she's a front runner for one of the actor prizes later next week and the other was in the film side i have to say a film outside of competition really caught my eye called apples which is a great movie and it's sort of a fable it's set in an analog world

roxboro in venice well next up we go back in time to the middle ages here in germany and a new exhibition in my aunt's sheds light on the complicated power structures that were in that area at the time of charles the great of the king of the franks and the founder of the holy roman empire in the year 800 well it's been years in the making this exhibition and years since one of its central attractions has actually seen the light. this massive steel door protects one of the most valuable books in the world the codex manesar is 700 years old a collection of songs and poems from an entire era 800 elaborately decorated parchment pages with love as the central theme. greets with singing the sweet ones i neither can nor want to avoid. this is the source for more than half of minutes and poetry. we very rarely then the book out to those people interested in seeing get up close this is really about the aura of the original. for the last time was 14 years ago now the codex manesar is going back on public view it's been cushioned in shop and fireproof packaging for the journey it's insured for 80000

and as usual scott roxboro is in venice watching those movies for us welcome scott now pieces of a woman certainly getting a lot lots of attention that film tell us what you thought of it. you know this is quite impressive this movie it's a based on the real life experience of the screenwriter and her partner who's the director of the movie and it's a really powerful look at trauma and loss and led by an incredible cast foremost among them but nasa kirby who really blew me away with this role ok so vanessa kirby we just heard there she's represented in 2 films in competition competition this is quite a festival for her tell us a bit. yeah kirby is really the star of this year's festival and for me i have to meet a bit of the stuff i mean i knew kirby some people who were from the crown a role in the crown i knew were actually for small roles in action films like the fast and furious movies here she plays 2 very different roles but 2 completely different scale i mean these are much darker more complex a few more characters than i've ever seen her play on screen before and she's really my

wow my colleague scott roxboro is following this story scott let's talk a little bit about. and this year's booker prize shortlist this is a very diverse group of authors and yet she still really stands out doesn't she yet definitely not just because of her political activism in the situation that she sent but she's also by far the most experienced writer on this list she's 61 she's been writing for 30 years before getting this recognition i also find her work really interesting particular the novel that she is nominated for this mortal body because it's a sequel to her 1st novel and it features the same character the character back then was a young girl growing up in pre-independence zimbabwe and this carries on the story many decades later and she becomes a very disillusioned middle aged woman and it's sort of tells the story of zimbabwe from its sort of the hope after independence to sort of the decline in corruption that of course the author self knows far too well absolutely now what is your take on this year's booker prize shortlist on a whole yeah it's really interest

and my colleague scott roxboro joins us live from the lido in venice welcome scott there you are and you know this is so crazy bannister in a global pandemic so different from what you're used to what's how's it going. yeah it's going surprisingly well carrot i mean it is odd to be here with a mask half wear masks in the cinema have the sort of the smell the scent of disinfectant gel everywhere you go but it actually does still feel like a real film festival and i think that has so much to do with the fact that everybody here the stars like a planned child like pedro almodovar like tilda swinton but also all the ordinary film fans and film reviewers here are just desperate for venice to succeed they really are desperate for the film industry to get going again to get restart again and i think that's really creating a wave of optimism here at here at venice oh that's great to hear now we've heard in the piece that it's a very political festival this year especially the competition film so what's striking about the lineup for you this time around. yeah it's interesting because usually

and let's go to venice roxboro is standing by for us there hi scott great to see you so tell us more about why the director selected this topic i mean it seems really timely looking into extremism in the political spectrum. yes no extremely timely it could be from last week's headlines and i was able to talk to you earlier before the films for me are here in venice and she told me that she thought it was crucial that the film be seen now because she thinks that the most pressing political issue in germany at the moment is how to fight right wing extremism because of the frightening new rise in support for far right ideology let's have a listen at what she said. in a document we have 13 percent of voters here in germany supporting a far right party they have sent in federal parliament and in the states to get the food they were fringe party in such a time now they're becoming mainstream we've had many deaths already there was harm no someone tried to attack a synagogue i'm now it's escalating right now one of my duties and i was she's looking like this is not. ok so scott as we hear t

ok thank you did you scott roxboro afford. there at the venice film festival reporting on the great a film and hopefully a renaissance for the film industry in general. we turn to sports now and one of the biggest soccer transfers of the summer now however it's has completed his move from cruising to chelsea for a reported 80000000 euros however it's left germany's nations lead camp after their game against spain to head to london where he finalize the deal the premier league club says the highly rated attacker has signed a 5 year contract at chelsea. and that's all the news for this hour ali back in 45 minutes with more headlines and we leave you now with images from the force of the stonier where the usual peace and tranquility was interrupted by the world rally championship enjoy and buckle up. the loser. lib. live. in the for. the for. the for. the colbys in germany to learn german english from the cool. why not learn with him d w z e learning course plecos fake. sleep. listen carefully you don't know there's something she

and my colleague scott roxboro joins us live from the lido in ringback venice welcome scott there you are and you know this is so crazy bannister in a global pandemic so different from what you're used to what's how's it going. yeah it's going surprisingly well here i mean it is odd to be here with a mouse that wear masks in the cinema to have the sort of the smell the scent of disinfectant gel everywhere you go but it actually does still feel like a real film festival and i think that has so much to do with the fact that everybody here the stars like a planned child like pedro almodovar like tilda swinton but also all the ordinary film fans and film reviewers here are just desperate for venice to succeed they really are desperate for the film industry to get going again to get restart again and i think that's really creating a wave of optimism here and here at venice well that's great to hear now we've heard in the piece that it's a very political festival this year especially the competition film so what's striking about the lineup for you this time round. yeah it's interesting beca

of god did over use film expert scott roxboro with me now scuds are antebellum this looks like a seriously woke horror movie yeah i can see call that i mean it's basically a big horror movie but it's got a really strong political subtext i mean essentially the subtext is that americans original sin of slavery has not gone away but is buried underneath like a like a demon waiting to waiting to spring up and wreck havoc right i know one of the producers on this movie has the same her produced jordan people's movie get out a few years back different story want to really kind of the same themes it works like yeah i think so i mean this is almost a new subject on a black horror films with social messages which i think people really invented with with with get out and if you member that movie was a black guy who has a white girlfriend and he finds out that his girlfriend supposedly nice white family are secretly slaving black people are not so nice the the metaphor there is of course underlying racism of supposedly liberal all white people. feel that a similar thing with his a 2nd movie which ca

now we are joined by scott roxboro who is in venice watching the movies for us he's also prepared to face the elements there so scott tell us pieces of a woman getting a lot of attention what do you think of it you know i was blown away by this movie very very powerful it's really a wrong a look at the trauma that can result from the loss of a child not just for the mother but in this case for for the entire family particularly with this family involved because they are unable to really discuss the issue the acting in this film is excellent across the board but i was really blown away by vanessa kirby playing playing the mother an astounding really relevant tori performance from her and she's really my pick for the best actress award here in venice and it's just one example of an increase in female perspectives that we are seeing at this particular festival so tell us a little bit more about what you've seen. yeah there are a record number of female film directors presenting their movies here in venice this year and what i've been really impressed by is just the range of films of sub

and for more on this let's bring in scott roxboro from culture we're standing by for us in venice scott is this film about berg one of the big talking points and how the festival how's it been received. yeah definitely it was one of the most highly anticipated films before the festival and has been really well received i mean it is a fairly conventional documentary it's not super cinematic or anything but it's central figure is so compelling and and such a powerful presence on screen that she sort of carries the film along and you do really in this documentary get a bit to know get to know a bit about the personal data to back up we see her with her family we see her traveling particularly with her father who's sort of a comic relief figure in the documentary and i think this picture of a girl who's in some ways a very ordinary teenager makes her incredible accomplishments all the more more astounding i thought it was an incredibly powerful film and gives us a really new insight to this this this global icon. we hear there's been a lot of sort of political themes of the films that in th

thing for more i'm joined by our movie guru scott roxboro was due to be culture he is in venice good evening to you scott i see you've got your face mask on i think a lot of people watching around the world are maybe scratching their heads wondering is it too early to be having a film festival and how different are things there compared to times without the pandemic. yeah i mean it's really no comparison as you say we're all wearing masks we have to wear them inside cinemas and outside at all times and venice you can see behind me has taken a note from donald trump's book and they've built a wall around the red carpet in order to keep people from a gathering here and and create dangerous dangerous crowds so there are a lot of security measures that have been implemented here for for safety. and maybe it is a bit too early maybe some people are right if they are saying that but i think it's quite amazing what the venice film festival has man should do here it does feel safe and if it is does have the feel of a real film festival and i think that's a huge signal for the film industry a

roxboro in venice thank you you're watching day w. news long from let me take you back to our top story the german government says it has proof that russian opposition leader lacks in the valley was poisoned with a military chemical nerve agent novi chalk well this is a result of the latest test from burden sharing a hospital where he's being treated he fell ill on the flight from siberia to moscow last month and was rushed to hospital. where russian doctors rejected allegations that he'd been poisoned he was transferred for treatment 2 days later the medics here say he said now and into stick but stable so germany has condemned the poisoning and summoned and demanded a response from russia but must go says it's yet to receive official confirmation of any diagnosis by his german foreign minister i comb us. yes for all time we strongly condemn this attack we will now promptly inform our partners in the e.u. and nato and share with the new information we will discuss with them in the next few days how to take appropriate action. we have

roxboro. all the time well no doubt good old beethoven was turning in his grave when the covert 900 pandemic arrived to rain on his 2050th anniversary parade a much of the initial programme for beethoven 2020 was extended so that germany's most famous composer can be properly celebrated and you can almost feel the immense relief in the air as cultural events pick up again and artists can finally leave the confines of that lockdown and find their audiences again in the berlin state or pro over the weekend was a case in point. another step towards the return of musical life. state opera for under the baton of daniel barenboim. it's great heavens $250.00 of perth to this year so no surprise that but it's over news on the program rushed out also celebrating a birthday its own $450.00 s. stars soloist and sophie are said to be back on stage and have. so much that i can't wait to share this great music again that records all well and good streaming is quite nice because sitting in peru you can be pa

roxboro in venice well next up we go back in time to the middle ages here in germany and a new exhibition in my aunts sheds light on the complicated power structures that were in that area at the time of charles the great of the king of the franks and the founder of the holy roman empire in the year 800 well it's been years in the making this exhibition and years since one of its central attractions has actually seen the light. this massive steel door protects one of the most valuable books in the world the codex manesar is 700 years old a collection of songs and poems from an entire era 811 decorated parchment pages with love as the central theme. greets with singing the sweet ones i neither can nor want to avoid. this is the source for more than half of minnesotan poetry. we very rarely lend the book out to those people interested in seeing get up close this is really about the aura of the original. the last time was 14 years ago now the codex manesar is going back on public view it's been cushioned in shop and fireproof packaging for the journey it's insured for 80000000 euros and has

joining me one more time from the lido in venice is my colleague scott roxboro scotty so many interesting films out there in the suspense is mounting were there any surprises or new discoveries for you in this year's lineup. yes quite a few surprise i mean this is a very different year in venice because of the court of owls cut crisis and not so many big hollywood films here but a lot of interesting smaller films to discover and for me one of the great pleasures of coming to festivals like this is finding new talent and particularly new interesting actors this year is a bit different it was finding actors that i thought i knew doing completely different things. for example. a british actor who you might know from the netflix series stranger things where he plays sort of a russian scientist he was here at the festival with his 1st ever film where he plays a leading role and it's in polish drama called never going to snow again in that. plays a ukrainian masroor who tends to the needs of the rich and shallow in a polish gated community is a very sort of strange and beautiful but also really

roxboro in venice. next up we go back in time to the middle ages here in germany and a new exhibition in my aunts sheds light on the complicated power structures that were in that area at the time of charles the great of the king of the franks and the founder of the holy roman empire in the year 800 well it's been years in the making this exhibition and years since one of its central attractions has actually seen the light. this massive steel door protects one of the most valuable books in the world the codex manesar is 700 years old a collection of songs and poems from an entire era 800 elaborately decorated parchment pages with love as the central theme. greets with singing the sweet ones i neither can nor want to avoid. this is the source for more than half of minutes sang poetry. and we very rarely lend the book out to those people interested in seeing get up close this is really about the aura of the original. the last time was 14 years ago now the codex manesar is going back on public view it's be

of god did over use film expert scott roxboro with me now scott's are antebellum this looks like a seriously work horror movie i can see called that i mean it's basically a the horror movie but it's got a really strong political subtext i mean essentially the subtext is that americans original sin of slavery has not gone away but is buried underneath like a like a demon waiting to waiting to spring up and wreck havoc right i know one of the producers on this movie has the same her produced jordan people's movie get out a few years back different story wanted to really kind of the same themes it works like yeah i think so i mean this is almost a new subject on a black horror films with social messages which i think people really invented with with with get out and if you member that movie was a black guy who has a white girlfriend and he finds out that his girlfriend supposedly nice white family are secretly slaving black people not so nicely the metaphor there is of course underlying racism of supposedly liberal all white people. people did a similar thing with his a 2nd movie which came out

god did over use film expert scott roxboro with me now scott sir answered elam this looks like a seriously work horror movie yeah i can see call that i mean it's basically a big horror movie but it's got a really strong political subtext i mean essentially some taxes that america's original sin of slavery has not gone away but is buried underneath like a like a demon waiting to rain to spring up and wreck havoc right i know one of the producers on this movie has the same her produced jordan people's movie get out a few years back different story want to really kind of the same themes it works like yeah i think so i mean this is almost a new subject honor of black horror films with social messages which i think people really invented with with with get out and if you member that movie was a black guy who has a white girlfriend and he finds out that his girlfriend supposedly nice white family are secretly slaving black people that's not so nice the the metaphor there is of course underlying racism of supposedly liberal all white people. feel that a similar thing with his 2nd movie which came

wow my colleague scott roxboro is following this story and scott let's talk a little bit about. and this year's booker prize shortlist this is a very diverse group of authors and yet she still really stands out doesn't she yet definitely not just because of her political activism in the situation that she sent but she's also by far the most experienced writer on this list she's 61 she's been writing for 30 years before getting this recognition i also find her work really interesting particularly now that she is nominated for this moral body because it's a sequel to her 1st novel and it features the same character the character back then was a young girl growing up in pre-independence zimbabwe and this carries on the story many decades later and she becomes a very disillusioned middle aged woman and sort of tells the story of zimbabwe from its sort of the hope after independence to sort of the decline in corruption that of course the author self knows far too well absolutely now what is your take on this year's booker prize shortlist on a whole yeah it's really interesting it's k

and let's go to venice t w scott roxboro is standing by for us there hi scott great to see you so tell us more about why the director selected this topic i mean it seems really timely looking into extremism in the political spectrum yes no extremely timely could be ripped from last week's headlines and i was able to talk to you earlier before the films from here here in venice and she told me that she thought it was crucial that the film be seen now because she thinks that the most pressing political issue in germany at the moment is how to fight right wing extremism because of the frightening new rise in support for far right ideology let's have a listen to what she said you have gone to and we have 13 percent of voters here in germany supporting the far right party they have seats in federal parliament and in the states before they were fringe parties that's right now they're becoming mainstream yet we've had many deaths already you have there was a hollow someone tried to attack a synagogue calm down it's escalating right now on the vine he does not go out she's looking like this is

well joining me here in the studio is a scott roxboro from d.w. culture who is just back from venice a to tell us all about it scott this is the 1st big film festival that's been held during the pandemic how to take up yeah a really surprisingly well i mean i was a bit worried a bit anxious about going to an event like this with so many people gathering together inside in cinemas but it was incredibly well organized and although it was a bit odd you know you had to wear a mask all the time in the cinemas at all time and everything smelled of disinfectant but. went off incredibly well and i have to admit it was just such a joy to be sitting in a movie theater again seeing new movies with a group of you know film fanatics like myself it was just just amazing and i real tribute to venice for really pulling it off and i can only imagine how fun that must have been to be back in at the theater so tell me what is your top pick to win this year's top prize at the golden lion yeah it was interesting i thought it was actually very good year this year you u

now we are joined by scott roxboro who is in venice watching the movies for us he's also prepared to face the elements there so scott tell us pieces of a woman getting a lot of attention what do you think of it. you know i was blown away by this movie of a very very powerful it's really a wrong a look at the trauma that can result from the loss of a child not just for the mother but in this case for for the entire family particularly with this family involved because they are unable to really discuss the issue the acting in this film is excellent across the board but i was really blown away by vanessa kirby playing playing the mother understanding really relevant tori performance from her and she's really my pick for the best actress award here in venice and it's just one example of an increase in female perspectives that we are seeing at this particular festival so tell us a little bit more about what you've seen. yeah there are a record number of female film directors presenting their movies here in venice this year and what i've been really impressed by is just the range of films

roxboro scotty so many interesting films out there in the suspense is mounting were there any surprises or new discoveries for you in this year's lineup. yes quite a few surprise i mean this is a very different year in venice because of the court of owls cut crisis and not so many big hollywood films here but a lot of interesting smaller films to discover and for me one of the great pleasures of coming to festivals like this is finding new talent and particularly new interesting actors this year is a bit different it was finding actors that i thought i knew doing completely different things. for example alec a british actor who you might know from the netflix series stranger things where he plays sort of a russian scientist he was here at the festival with his 1st ever film where he plays a leading role and it's in polish drama called never going to snow again in that. plays a ukrainian must or who tends to the needs of the rich and shallow in a polish gated community is a very sort of strange and beautiful but also really really funny movie and alec is just hypnotic in the role i mean

roxboro in venice next up we go back in time to the middle ages here in germany and a new exhibition in my aunt's sheds light on the complicated power structures that were in that area at the time of charles the great of the king of the franks and the founder of the holy roman empire in the year 800 well it's been years in the making this exhibition and years since one of its central attractions has actually seen the light. this massive steel door protects one of the most valuable books in the world the codex manesar is 700 years old a collection of songs and poems from an entire era 811 decorated parchment pages with love as the central theme. greets with singing the sweet ones i neither can nor want to avoid. this is the source for more than half of mina saying poetry. very rarely then the book out to those people interested in seeing get up close this is really about the aura of the original. the last time was 14 years ago now the codex manesar is going back on public view it's been cushioned in shop and fireproof packaging for the journey it's insured for 80000000 euros and has a

and joining me one more time from the lido in venice is my colleague scott roxboro scotty so many interesting films out there in the suspense is mounting were there any surprises or new discoveries for you in this year's lineup. yes quite a few surprise i mean this is a very different year in venice because of the court of owls cut crisis and not so many big hollywood films here but a lot of interesting smaller films to discover and for me one of the great pleasures of coming to festivals like this is finding new talent and particularly new interesting actors this year is a bit different it was finding actors that i thought i knew doing completely different things. for example. a british actor who you might know from the netflix series stranger things where he plays sort of a russian scientist he was here at the festival with his 1st ever film where he plays a leading role and it's in polish drama called never going to snow again in it. plays a ukrainian masroor who tends to the needs of the rich and shallow in a polish gated community it's a very sort of strange and beautiful but also really

for more on this let's bring in scott roxboro from d.w. culture who is in venice scott welcome the festival clearly in full swing what are the highlights so far. yeah it is really coming along strongly here in venice and one of the top pilots have to say for me has been vanessa kirby the british actress who you might know from netflix series the crown where she plays princess margaret she's here with 2 films and has really taken over the festival i mean 2 very very different roles in one film pieces of a woman she plays a woman traumatized by the loss of her baby and in another the world to come she is a pioneering wife on the prairies in $1000.00. and 2 very very different roles and 2 roles that i think she's astoundingly good in and a completely unlike the roles i've seen are in before i think but as a kirby will definitely be one of the top of the awards list next week when when they're handed out here and. she was clearly remarkable are you still there with us . oh yes yes yes yes i can still exist here you hopefully the connection is

and for more on this let's bring in scott roxboro from d.w. culture who is standing by for us in venice scott is this film about berg one of the big talking points and how the festival how's it been received. yeah definitely it was one of the most highly anticipated films before the festival and has been really well received i mean it is a fairly conventional documentary it's not super cinematic or anything but it's central figure is so compelling and and such a powerful presence on screen that she sort of carries the film along and you do really in this documentary get a bit to know get to know a bit about the personal data to back up we see her with her family we see her traveling particularly with her father who's sort of a comic relief figure in the documentary and i think this picture of a girl who's in some ways a very ordinary teenager makes her incredible accomplishments all the more more astounding i thought it was an incredibly powerful film and gives us a really new insight to this this this global icon. we hear there's been a lot o

now we are joined by scott roxboro who is in venice watching the movies for us he's also prepared to face the elements there so scott tell us pieces of a woman getting a lot of attention what do you think of it you know i was blown away by this movie very very powerful it's really a wrong a look at the trauma that can result from the loss of a child not just for the mother but in this case for the entire family particularly with this family involved because they are unable to really discuss the issue of the acting you know in this film is excellent across the board but i was really blown away by vanessa kirby playing playing the mother an astounding really relevant tori performance from her and she's really my pick for the best actress award here in venice and it's just one example of an increase in female perspectives that we are seeing at this particular festival so tell us a little bit more about what you've seen. yeah there are a record number of female film directors presenting their movies here in venice this year and what i've been really impressed by is just the range of film

and my colleague scott roxboro joins us live from the lido in venice welcome scott there you are and you know this is so crazy banister in a global pandemic so different from what you're used to what's it how's it going. yeah it's going surprisingly well here i mean it is odd to be here with a mouse the aftermath in the cinema to have the sort of the smell the scent of disinfectant gel everywhere you go but it actually does still feel like a real film festival and i think that has so much to do with the fact that everybody here the stars like kate blanchett like pedro almodovar like tilda swinton but also all the ordinary film fans and film reviewers here are just desperate for venice to succeed they really are desperate for the film industry to get going again and to get restart again and i think that's really creating a wave of optimism here and here at venice well that's great to hear now we've heard in the piece that it's a very political festival this year especially the competition film so what's striking about the lineup for you this time around. yeah it's interesting because

also following the rules with his mask is do roxboro from d.w. culture of who is in venice scott i am very envious that you get to go now the festival is in full swing tell us what are the highlights so far. yeah no it's actually delightful here in venice and if i had to pick out some of the highlights the sort of big way festival i'd have to pick out vanessa kirby the british actress who maybe people know from netflix the series the crown where she plays princess margaret she has 2 films here 2 very different movies in pieces of a woman she plays a mother who's traumatized by the death of her child and it comes she plays a pioneer wife in 1900. 80 neighboring woman very very different but she's astounding in both of them very very different performances than i've ever seen from kirby and i think that of a necessary will definitely be at the top of the the list when it comes to the ending of the awards next week but if i have to pick my absolute highlight so far the film festival it's outside the venice competition there's a film apples a greek m

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