A statue of a golden-winged lion, the symbol of the Venice film festival, is seen against the sky near 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. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (ITALY)