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Director Brian De Palma arrive at the Cinema Palace
in Venice August 30, 2006. The Venice Film Festival opens on Wednesday
with the world premiere of 'The Black Dahlia', a sepia-tinted throwback to
1940s Hollywood based on a grisly real-life murder that remains unsolved
to this day. (Xinhua/AP Photo)
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BEIJING, Aug. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- Brian De Palma's "The
Black Dahlia" premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival last night as the
movie's stars, Scarlett Johansson, Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhardt paraded down
the red carpet and wowed onlookers at the ceremony.
Scarlett Johansson, who starred in "Lost in
Translation" and "Girl with a Pearl Earring," arrived for the first public
screening of the movie dressed in a glamourous 1940s-style cream silk gown,
completing her vintage look with a smattering of ruby red lipstick.
Asked whether she would be a distraction, the actor
said: "It's nice to be considered sexy, as a young woman in my prime. But I try
not to think about the sexiness. And I never think about it being distracting
from a scene."
The film, a noir thriller based on crime novelist
James Ellroy's bestseller, tells the story of the sensational 1947 murder of
Elizabeth Short, a 22-year-old aspiring actor who was found brutally slain in a
vacant Los Angeles lot. Her death grabbed headlines for months, in what Ellroy
called America's first "media murder."
Josh Hartnett and Aaron Eckhart play detectives
investigating the murder, while Johansson is the woman caught between them.
The 21-years-old blonde beauty said there were
parallels between America in the 1940s and sometimes scandal is the best
catharsis.
"I think that, in general, when there are periods of
depression in a country, people distract themselves with scandal," said
Johansson.
"We've seen it in the past and we're sort of seeing
it now. We have a war going on, a mass genocide, and we have someone brought
over from Thailand for a test . . . in a case that happened a long time ago,"
she added, referring to media attention surrounding John Mark Karr, who said he
killed JonBenet Ramsey.
"The Black Dahlia" is among 21 films competing for
the Gold Lion, to be awarded on Sept. 9. Its director, De Palma. was acclaimed
for "Scarface" and "The Untouchables," but his recent "Femme Fatale" did not get
a UK cinema release. Enditem
(Agencies)
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