The 83rd Venice Film Festival continues on the Lido through Saturday. [1] This paper has been printing awards as still later. [2] Friday has no Golden Lion in fetched copy. A festival day is not an awards night. Print continues. Do not print a Lion.

Honorary Lions for Clooney and Burstyn were already prior. Competition prizes belong to the close. Reuters previewed the festival's shape at the start of the month. [3] Friday does not invent a competition winner. Saturday owns the table.

Friday recap that treats a Lido Friday as already awarded is a feed, not the Biennale. Print later. Leave the Lion to the edition that owns the Lion.

Friday is not awards night.
The close still owns the prizes.
Festival closers follow a fixed liturgy: jury deliberates, prizes announced, winners cry. Friday's Lido is still in deliberation. The liturgy plays Saturday.

Twenty-four hours from now the envelopes open; until then the Lido runs on rumor and espresso. Rumor favors everyone equally. Espresso favors the Italians.

Juries still deliberate. Winners have not cried. Not awards night. Envelopes wait one more day.

Friday's Lido is still in deliberation. Rumor favors everyone equally. Espresso favors the Italians.

Screens still run on the Lido through Saturday. No Golden Lion and no jury envelope arrived in Friday copy. Honorary prizes already given to Clooney and Burstyn sit outside that contest. Deliberation has one more day to go.
Friday copy invents no winner. Deliberation has one more day to go. Rumor favors everyone equally.

Friday copy invents no winner. Deliberation has one more day to go. Rumor favors everyone equally.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles