The unbeatable biggest highlight of Venice 2022 is not a film

You drive to the Venice Film Festival with high hopes for cinematic revival moments, but in the end a blonde hairstyle outshines everything. Sorry, Ana de Armas, but that doesn’t mean the Marilyn Monroe film Blond.

It’s about Chris Pine – also known as the Zen master of the legendary press tour of Don’t worry darling. The Californian appeared as a marginal figure in the dispute between Olivia Wilde, Florence Pugh and Harry Styles in the lagoon city and stole the show from them.

This is an appreciation of really true highlights of the 79th Venice International Film Festival.

In the Florence Pugh vs. Olivia Wilde fight, Chris Pine was the winner

The course for the fight of the century was actually set in Venice: Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh are said to have fallen out on the set of Don’t Worry, Darlingbecause:

But Chris Pine left Venice as the winner and that after three laps.

1. Chris Pine was a total meme at the press conference

It started at the press conference, which traditionally takes place on the day of the premiere. Florence Pugh canceled it because she is filming Dune 2 in Budapest. According to the official version, it was rumored that she wanted to avoid interviews about the film. That left Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles and lame answers to uncritical questions.

only the Chris Pine’s facial expressions saved the PK from irrelevance. Whether it’s indifference or astral projection onto a beach in southern California, science will move for decades to come. But already these pictures saved Don’t Worry, Darling from insignificance.

If it wasn’t for Pine, we really would have had to grapple with Harry Styles’ untranslatable thoughts:

My favorite thing about the movie is that it feels like a movie. It feels like a real, like, go to the theater film-movie — you know — the reason you go to watch on a big screen.

Pine was identified as an bystander in the Press tour debacle to the projection screen of millions while maintaining a white or off-white waistcoat. But the PK was only the first act.

2. Pine went wild on the red carpet

At tonight’s world premiere, Chris Pine could have walked the red carpet and left it at that. Most stars do it that way. But not the Star Trek captain.

He showed up with one old-fashioned disposable camera (!) and for whatever reason captured every inch of Florence Pugh’s starry sky dress by Valentino for analogue posterity.

3. The high point was the spit saga starring Harry Styles

Normally, only reports of precisely measured standing ovations (Don’t Worry, Darling’s was 4 minutes long, The Banshees of Inisherin’s 13 minutes) come out of the cinema hall at film festivals.

Not here. It started with the guest arrangement, which Chris Pine envisioned as a buffer between Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles and Florence Pugh. He sat there innocently in a burning Gossip house.

Then it went around the world how Harry Styles allegedly spat on Chris Pine and our lives were never to be the same again.

Our eternal thanks go to Chris Pine

There’s a lot to thank Chris Pine for at this Venice International Film Festival. He enchanted us with his trance at the press conference a smile on your face and showed the world how it feels to be the child of divorce from Olivia Wilde and Florence Pugh.

He got the Guardian to run this headline:

And even wrested a drop of personality from Harry Styles:

The winning films of Venice 2022 will be announced tonight, but the winner of the festival has already been determined.