Oscar winning filmmaker Alexander Payne is presiding over the Venice Film Festival’s main competition jury this year, returning for the first time since his Downsizing world premiered on the Lido in 2017. That time around, spending just 36 hours here, everything was “a blur.” Today, he said he’s reveling in a sort of paradise that only became real yesterday. “I arrived by water taxi to my beautiful hotel. I dropped my bags. Soon, I was seated next to Francis Coppola watching a restoration of a 1928 silent film. And I thought, ‘I’m in heaven’… The only hard part, of course,...
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