CAST: Henry Jaglom, Nelly Alard, Suzanne Bertish, Melissa Leo, Daphna Kastner, David Duchovny, Diane Salinger and John Landis.

1992 108 min. Color R

Dean (Henry Jaglom) is a maverick American film director surprised that his most recent film has been chosen as the Official U.S. Entry at the Venice Film Festival. A beautiful French journalist (Nelly Alard) arrives at the festival with the apparent intention of interviewing the unique and eccentric filmmaker. In the midst of all the festival madness, she is forced to confront the wide divergence between things as they really are and things as they seem to be - both onscreen and off. And so, finally, are we. Shot half in Venice, Italy and half in Venice, California, VENICE/VENICE looks at the profound effect movies have had - and continue to have - on our lives, our loves and our dreams of romance.

"'VENICE/VENICE' is lush & dreamy, yet abrasively alive and full of stinging insights. HENRY JAGLOM INVIGORATES AND PERSONALIZES AMERICAN CINEMA BY SPEAKING DIRECTLY TO THE THINGS THAT MOST TROUBLE HIM - LOVE, DREAMS & DISAPPOINTMENTS - IN A VOICE THAT IS WARM, STEADY AND HEARTENINGLY CLEAR!"

"'AUDACIOUS & FASCINATING, 'VENICE/VENICE' IS A QUIRKY MASTERPIECE FROM AMERICA'S MOST PROVOCATIVE FILMMAKER. 
I WAS SWEPT AWAY!" 

"FUNNY & MOVING, 'VENICE/VENICE' IS A POWERFUL EXPLORATION OF LOVE, ILLUSION AND THE DANGER OF MOVIES, as personal as a diary or a sonnet, as revealing as an intimate letter from a long-time friend. HENRY JAGLOM IS ALWAYS EMOTIONALLY ALIVE, AND IT IS HIS RISKIEST AND MOST SELF-REVEALING ACHIEVEMENT TO DATE!"

-BOB CAMPBELL, NEWHOUSE NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE

"ONE OF THE MOST ROMANTIC FILMS OF THE YEAR!"

-MICHAEL MEDVED, PBS-TV