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FESTIVAL
Roger Clarke reports from a Turin marked by Berlusconi's fall and Altman's shadow
Taking place mere days after the resignation of Silvio Berlusconi, Turin - for years quite easily the most pleasurable of all the Italian festivals - seemed like the rest of Italy to be turning in on itself. But for the presence of the Altaian clan, including Robert Altman's widow and son, foreign guests and journalists were thin on the ground and there was a haunted air to the staff in this most haunted of cities, famous for magic, suicides and chocolate. Opposite the Genio Hotel, where most of the guests stayed, a cinema once used by the festival had been turned, somewhat pointedly under the circumstances, into a casino. The ghost of liberal autocrat Nanni Moretti, the man was supposed to...