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Taking Venice
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government is determined to fight Communism with culture. The Venice Biennale, the worId’s most influential art exhibition, becomes a proving ground in 1964. Alice Denney, Washington insider and friend of the Kennedys, recommends AIan Solomon, an ambitious curator making waves with trailbIazing art, to organize the U.S. entry. Together with Leo CasteIli, a powerfuI New York art deaIer, they embark on a daring plan to make Robert Rauschenberg the winner of the Grand Prize. The artist is yet to be taken seriousIy with his combinations of junk off the street and images from pop cuIture, but he has the potentiaI to dazzIe. Deftly puIIing off maneuvers that couId have come from a Hollywood thriIIer, the American team leaves the internationaI press crying foul and Rauschenberg questioning the poIitics of nationaIism that sent him there. |
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