FESTIVALS AND EVENTS

FROM KUBRICK TOWARD FINCHER — VENICE 1999

Written over 13 days, this is a daily journal full of impressions of this year’s films at the 56th Venice Film Festival. Among the films reviewed, the author has placed special emphasis on Stanley Kubrick’s farewell film Eyes Wide Shut and David Fincher’s Fight Club, in which he finds structural, visual, aural and narrative innovations that invite the viewer to watch the films repeatedly and to decipher their filmic complexity.

Vladimir C. Sever