Venice bets on auteur cinema and A-lister stars as Hollywood pulls back

Hollywood is taking a step back at this year’s Venice film festival, with ​organisers on Thursday unveiling a more independent-minded line-up that promotes auteur cinema over the studio-heavy rosters of recent editions.

But even ‌if the big U.S. producers have decided to steer clear of the Lagoon city, just as they did at the Cannes […] ...