Venice film awards race wide open after star-studded festival

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VENICE : Paolo Sorrentino's film about the death of his own parents, Jane Campion's 1920s frontier saga and a hard-hitting French tale of abortion are among contenders for the top prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, with the race seen wide open.Film critics agreed the main competition line-up o

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VENICE : Paolo Sorrentino's film about the death of his own parents, Jane Campion's 1920s frontier saga and a hard-hitting French tale of abortion are among contenders for the top prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday, with the race seen wide open.

Those two pictures bumped up the star-power - a vital ingredient to a successful festival, and even more so after last year's subdued edition. Ben Affleck - holding hands with Jennifer Lopez - Matt Damon, Timothee Chalamet, Stewart and Penelope Cruz were among the A-listers on the red carpet. "I thought the line-up looked phenomenal going in and it has mainly held up," said Scott Roxborough of the Hollywood Reporter, lauding the mix of Hollywood, big budget movies with more intimate, auteur films such as"Reflection", a Ukrainian film about war against Russian-backed separatists in the east.

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