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Michael Moore’s financial crisis film tops bill in Venice

Posted by channel27news on August 1, 2009

Reports from Rome on Reuters say that it looks like Michael Moore’s Oscar-winning film ‘Capitalism: A Love Story‘ could well come away as overall winner at the Venice Film Festival.

Six US films have been nominated at the world’s oldest film festival – a sure sign that the writers strike did nothing to prevent the return of the US film-business.

This year there will be 24 film in the contest – one of which is yet to be unveiled – and both France and Italy will be featuring heavily this year. Both countries have four films each representing them.

The event starts on Sept 2nd and runs until Sept 12th.

Read more here: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE56T54620090730

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