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71st edition of the Venice Film Festival chose to reward artistic Roy Andersson Swedish comedy with the Golden Lion and completely exclude palmares Mexican Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, whose film “Birdman” was among the favorites for both critics and the public.
The jury world’s oldest festival, chaired this year by French film composer Alexandre Desplat, admitted to the press that constituted the difficulty choose between twenty works of high quality.
reasons why the film González Iñárritu was excluded not know , and that the discussions “remain secret,” said Desplat questions from journalists.
As in 2013, with “Gravity” Mexican Alfonso Cuaron, who then won seven Oscars without having achieved any recognition in Venice, the film of his compatriot González Iñárritu, labeled by several international critics of “masterpiece” will now compete in the United States.
The film Andersson, 71, “A Dove sitting on a branch on the existence reflect “, with a series of skits about the human condition and poetic images, is a tribute to Italian cinema neorrrealismo and Vittorio De Sica, the legacy left to the world cinema, acknowledged Andersson excited after receiving the coveted award.
“That scene when he goes to pawn bicycle in Bicycle Thieves (1948) and find so many poor people like him, even leave your own bike, okay … that one scene for all. A scene full of humanity, empathy, “he said.
“A film should be all” said the director, adding that “it is the first Swedish film that wins the Golden Lion”. “I’m very proud,” he added.
Andersson, who has spent much of his professional life working in advertising and has directed more than 400 commercials and two short films, has made only three films in 20 years.
The Silver Lion for best director was awarded to the Russian Andrei Konchalovsky for his film “Belye Nochi Pochtalona Alekseya Tryapitsyna” (The White Nights Postman), set in a remote region of the former Soviet Union, a poetic portrait of rural Russia today through a postman.
Konchalovsky, 77, brother of the director Nikita Mikhalkov and Russian actor and screenwriter Tarkovsky, who has participated several times in their films festival
Venice, filmed real people in their simple homes, in a kind of loving tribute a generation destined to disappear, lost in new technologies.
“I’m happy as a child with a Christmas tree,” said the old man excited director, who tells stories of ordinary life in the midst of a spectacular nature, lakes and forests.
The horror of the genocide of the 60s in Indonesia in a spooky documentary narrated by the American Joshua Oppenheimer, A document laying face to face with murderers and survivors, victims and executioners, won the Grand Jury Prize .
“I made this film because I hoped that the murderers acknowledge their guilt. is the only way out of the trap of fear. But no one wanted to accept his own fault, “Oppenheimer said in a statement sent by video.
” With the award of Venice, the protagonist-which interviews the murderers of his brother– begins heal their pain, “ added.
Another big winner was the Italian cinema to be awarded Saverio Costanzo’s film, “ Hungry Hearts” (Hungry Heart).
Shot in New York, the two protagonists won two awards for best performance for her role as parents that abnormal life, and especially the early, end up separating .
The actor Adam Driver, of the HBO series “Girls”, and Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher, rose with the Volpi Cup for best performance.
A verdict that surprises
For the Italian newspaper La Repubblica, the verdict divided critics and moviegoers cheered and booed while the jury during the ceremony at the Palazzo del Cinema.
“As is tradition, all forecasts refuted it” stressed meanwhile Il Corriere della Sera.
were excluded from the list of winning films like “Anime nere” (Soul Black) Francesco Nunzi on the Calabrian mafia, while the screenplay was for the “Tales” Iranian film Rakhshan Banietemad by a series of interwoven stories in Tehran.
were excluded from the list of winning films like “Anime nere” (Soul Black) Francesco Nunzi on the Calabrian mafia, while the screenplay was for the “Tales” Iranian film Rakhshan Banietemad by a series of interwoven stories in Tehran.
The special jury prize was given to a Turkish film, which was booed by the press with the story of a boy that love saves intended for a dog fight.
The Mastroianni prize went to the talented young Frenchman Romain Paul, star of “Le dernier coup de marteau” French Alix Delaporte, a sort of Gerard Depardieu again.
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