C.i wanted a jury president like Julianne Moore to guarantee the 2022 Film Festival (the 90th anniversary edition) one of the most universally acceptable verdicts ever and winners in perfect line with the times. TO Venice 79 the Golden Lion for best film he went to Laura Poitras. The Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize ad Alice Diop. The Silver Lion – Best Director Award a Luca Guadagnino. The Volpi Cups for the best interpretations a Cate Blanchett And Colin Farrell. The Special Jury Prize to Jafar Panahi. Finally, the Marcello Mastroianni Prize for an emerging performer to Taylor Russell.
To give a poignant mood to the ceremony, before the introduction of the godmother Rocío Muñoz Moraleshave provided the notes of Historia de un Amorplayed by the cellist-star Stjepan Hauser.
Golden Lion
Golden Lion for the best film to what is actually a very rich documentary, including dialogues, slides, photos and videos: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed by Laura Poitras. The filmmaker, already winner of an Oscar in 2015 for Citizenfour (on Edward Snowden), reconstructs – in a back and forth of present and past, personal and political – the life of photographer and activist Nan Goldin, focusing on her most recent, multi-year battle for the recognition of the responsibility of the Sackler family (owner of Purdue Pharma) in oxycodone overdose deaths. “Nan can’t be here because she’s on a retrospective that will be inaugurated in October. I have never known anyone as courageous as her. Monday will be her birthday and we will bring her this Lion »said the director moved.
Silver Lion
Another woman on the podium, another established documentarian: Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize to Alice Diop, that with Saint Omer this is his first fiction experience, as far as it comes from a true story: that of a mother who kills her little daughter and of the writer who follows all the court hearings. To Diop also the Venice First Opera Award “Luigi De Laurentiis”. Moved explains: “This award is proof that the heart of a black woman can reach the universal, it is a very political message.”
Speaking of which: was another documentarian – KD Davison, con Fragments of Paradise – to receive the Prize for the Venezia Classici section.
Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino and Canadian actress Taylor Russell, arrive for the premiere of ‘Bones and all’ during the 79th annual Venice International Film Festival, in Venice, Italy, 02 September 2022. The movie is presented in Official competition ‘Venezia 79’ at the festival running from 31 August to 10 September 2022. ANSA / CLAUDIO ONORATI
Director Lion
All Italian the Silver Lion – Award for the best direction: with Bones and All Luca Guadagnino won it, welcomed on the red carpet by hysterical screams from the fans (or perhaps they hoped that, with him, the protagonist, Timothée Chalamet, would also reveal itself?). Instead, his mother was escorting him …
Volpi Cups to the best actors
Story of two Fox Cups announced. Just out of the screening of TÁR by Todd Field, despite having been presented at the exhibition that has just begun, it was immediately understood that Cate Blanchett should not have feared rivals: her interpretation of the first woman in history (a fictional character, actually) to become the conductor of one of the most important German orchestras is perfect. And no, it’s no surprise … “I’ll drink a lot of red wine in this cup, and I’m not kidding!” assured the star.
But the same “I feel it” effect occurred at the end of The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh (already applauded in Venice in 2017 with Three billboards in Ebbing, Missouri): Colin Farrell gives credibility to the Irish Padraic who does not accept being rejected by his lifelong friend (Brendan Glesson) and reacts, up to unpredictable and shocking consequences … The really nice actor connected via Zoom for thanks from Los Angeles, “from kitchen of my publicist, “he specified.
Special Jury Prize
Special Jury Prize – proper and necessary – but, above all, well deserved to Jafar Panahi for No Bears– Bears don’t exist. While the award ceremony was taking place in the Sala Grande at the Lido of Venice, the Iranian director (already winner in Venice in 2000 with The circleGolden Bear in Berlin in 2015 with Taxi Tehran) he was in his cell in Tehran prisons, where he is being held for “anti-government propaganda”. The award was withdrawn by the two protagonists. Parallel story of two couples, swill be in Italian cinemas: all at the cinema on October 6!
Best Screenplay Award
Best Screenplay Award a Martin McDonagh for The Banshees of Inisherin. This was the only slight disappointment: it would have been just as deserved Santiago Miter for Argentina, 1985who so warmed our hearts with his: Nunca más!
Taylor Russell (photo Ansa).
Emerging Interpreter Award
The Marcello Mastroianni Prize a young up and coming actor or actress was awarded a Taylor Russell, the 28-year-old Canadian starring with Timothée Chalamet’s Bones and Allthe “cannibal” film by Guadagnino which has thus collected – a rather rare case – two awards. “It’s one of the best days of my life,” said the neostar, reading in the leaflet that she had prepared because she was “too excited”.
“Collateral” winners
And here are the winners in Venice 79 of the “parallel” Orizzonti section, reserved for new trends in world cinema. Prize for the best film a Jang-e jahani sevom (World War III) by Houman Seyedi.
Horizons Award for the best interpretations atIranian Mohse Tanabanden for Jang-e jahani sevom (third world war) ea Vera Gemma (yes, Giuliano Gemma’s daughter) for Vera (also the directors Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel were awarded).
Horizons Award for Best Screenplay to Fernando Guzzoni for Blanquita.
Armani Beauty Awardawarded by the public: Nezouhby Syrian director Soudade Kaadan.
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