A pigeon eats the Lion of Venice – The Reason

expectations were met: the two best films of the festival with apologies to “Fires on a Plain” of Shinja Tsukamoto, why this is particularly critical weakness-won jackpots. “A pigeon sitting on the branch pondering existence,” Roy Andersson, deservedly won the Golden Lion. Consisting of 39 planes sequence, as a tragicomic ‘gags’, examines human stupidity like Tati and Beckett had rewritten “Waiting for Godot” hand to hand, the Swedish film is original and unpredictable, bleak and optimistic at the same time. In the case of “The Look of Silence” Grand Jury Prize, Joshua Oppenheimer closes the circle of hell open with ‘The Act of Killing’ to provide what was lacking in the former, that is, the look of the victims of the genocide Indonesian. Equally worthy are the Jury Prize for Turkish “Sivas” for his awkward rawness to portray the reality of clandestine dog fights deep in Anatolia, and the award for best screenplay for the Iranian “Tales” movie episodes cleverly interconnected closes with two stories written with holy hand.

The best director is another matter. Andrei Konchalovsky reward by ‘The Postman White Nights “has something symbolic. He is an accomplished filmmaker, an old glory of European cinema, which has decided to dive into the pool of cinema “low cost” after discovering the creative possibilities of digital. The risk is laudable: one docudrama mounted in the far north of Russia has merit. Another thing is that the result is satisfactory. It is a modest film that can arouse sympathy and in which Nature is filmed with a clinical eye for beauty, but lacks dramatic entity and deflates in memory.

And now comes the worst. Accuse the French of chauvinism, but Venice is police court. Every year, no matter what happens, who compete compete, an Italian film has to be award. You really were not the best actors of “Hungry Hearts”? Alba Rohrwacher stood alone as a candidate for reasons of lack of competitors, at least until he came Zhong Lu, in “Red Amnesia ‘is superb impersonating an old woman who has to go with its past, decades after committing a terrible act in times of the Cultural Revolution. It is completely unfair that the actress, who won the Volpi Cup for “Il Papa di Giovanna” and that has become somewhat premature in Italian Isabelle Huppert, has won the game. So is Adam Driver has taken the best actor in a selection in which precisely good left over male roles. And Viggo Mortensen, Al Pacino, Willem Dafoe, Benoît Poelvoorde and especially Michael Keaton for ‘Birdman’? González Iñárritu’s film next to “Pasolini” of Ferrara and Tsukamoto madness of war are certainly absent from the big record in an edit transition, which places the Mostra at a dangerous crossroads. Will you still retains its relevance as essential meeting point on the festival calendar competition against Toronto, Telluride and New York

History

Best Film: “A pigeon sitting on the branch pondering existence,” Roy Andersson (pictured)

Grand Jury Prize. ‘ . The look of silence ‘, Joshua Oppenheimer

Special Jury Award : “Sivas” Kaan Müjdeci

Best Director <. / b>:. Andrei Konchalovsk for ‘The Postman’s White Nights “

Best Screenplay: ” Tales “of Rakhshan Banietemad

. Best Actor: Adam Driver, with “Hungry Hearts” Saverio Costanzo

Best Actress. Alba Rohrwacher by “Hungry Hearts” Saverio Costanzo <. / p>

Best Actor Emerging Romain Paul by “Le dernier coup de Marteau”

Luigi de Laurentiis Award. «Court» C. Tamhane.