MOVIES - Sept. 3, 1991

Ciao Venice: The Venice International Film Festival opens today in Venice, Italy, with Jean Luc Besson’s French film “Atlantis,” a child’s dream of an underwater city, and Italian Emidio Greco’s entry, “Una Storia Semplice” (A Simple Story), about a Mafia crime. Terry Gilliam’s entry from the United States, “The Fisher King,” stars Robin Williams as a history professor who becomes a derelict. A screening of a restored version of Luchino Visconti’s 1963 “Il Gattopardo” (The Leopard), which starred Claudia Cardinale and Burt Lancaster as Sicilian aristocrats, will end the festival on Sept. 14.