Fri, Sep 08, 2006 - Page 17 News List

America bares its soul at Venice

Spike Lee's documentary on New Orleans wins hearts and minds as US movies dominate the Venice Film Festival

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“I thought it was a great film,” said Lee Marshall, film critic for Screen International. “It's commercially smart because clearly it is a subject anyone, anywhere in the world knows about and they do it in an irreverent and charming way.”

The two other early front-runners among 21 films in the main competition are French filmmaker Alain Resnais's Private Fears in Public Places and Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men.

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