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"Venice is on the move," reports Wendy Ide, who, in the London Times, presents the title to this entry. "The festival's artistic director Marco Mueller has revealed that the dates of next year's Venice Film Festival will shift to coincide with those of the Toronto Film Festival - a declaration of war. There used to be an understanding that the two festivals could share key titles. It looks as if that age of collaboration is over and the battlelines are being drawn to vie for the big films."

"As if to prove that good things do, indeed, come to those who wait, Venice on its penultimate day delivered three of its strongest films," writes Shane Danielson at indieWIRE. "It was a pity, then, that almost no one was left to see them, having by then left the Lido with their minds already made up about this year's festival." The films: Darren Aronofsky's Golden Lion-winner, The Wrestler; Philippe Grandrieux's Un Lac; and Sylvie Verheyde's Stella.

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