53rd Venice International Film Festival

Famous quotes containing the words venice, film and/or festival:

“I know our country disposition well;
In Venice they do let God see the pranks
They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience
Is not to leave’t undone, but keep’t unknown.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“A film is a petrified fountain of thought.”
—Jean Cocteau (1889–1963)

“Sabbath. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)