CultureIn Venice, filmmakers seek to recapture attention as politics departs from the usual

The Venice film festival is presenting politically forthright epics as social media increasingly compresses and distorts the European Union’s crises. Films by directors including Sergei Loznitsa and Alex Gibney are portrayed as an attempt to win back public attention. The article describes Europe’s current economic crisis as one that cannot be captured by familiar measures such as ratings downgrades or borrowing costs. The EU’s dispute over the Ceuta crisis is presented as another sign of a shrinking European attention economy.

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TThe Guardian★★★☆☆2026-08-12 14:15Original