Every year at the Venice festival, ordinary movie-goers can scribble their views on a popular public notice board called “Give Us Our Money Back”.

Here is where people vent their frustration at the most baffling movies seen at the festival, which has a tradition for arthouse works which can be quite difficult to decipher.

This year, one of the most roundly panned films on the board was “Glory to the Filmmaker!” by Japan’s Takeshi Kitano, the surreal tale of a director on a quest to shoot the ultimate movie that everyone will love.

One viewer left the address and telephone number of a doctor “specialising in psychiatric problems and other serious diseases”, recommending Kitano go and see him.

Another wrote him a letter: “Dear Takeshi, I just want to ask you: Why?”

Other messages on the board complained about the long queues, the overpriced tickets and other organisational problems at the festival, such as the last-minute cancellation of some of the planned screenings of Woody Allen’s “Cassandra’s Dream”.

A man summed up his experience at the 11-day movie marathon like this:

Early wake ups: 7
Sleep-through films: 15
Walk-outs: 12
Liked: 2
Hours spent on ferry-boats: 16
Birds picked up: 1
Birds dumped: 1
Parties: n/a