Roy Andersson wins the Mostra in his absurd and humanist Humor – The Digital Voice (Cádiz)

As noted by the pools, absurd humor and humanistic spirit of Swedish director Roy Andersson at ‘A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence’ (A dove sitting on a branch on the existence reflect ), was served yesterday to become the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 71. The other big favorite, ‘Birdman’ by Alejandro González Iñárritu, vacuum has been an issue that has also twice awarded the Italian ‘Hungry Hearts’, whose protagonists, Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher, have been the Volpi Cup for Best Actor and Best Actress, respectively, Efe reported.

Andersson, already seduced the jury of the Cannes Film Festival a few years ago with “Songs from the second floor ‘, dedicated the award to all the Italian masters who have inspired him, and especially , Vittorio de Sica and ‘Bicycle Thief’. A film, said, “empathetic” and example of what, in his opinion, should be the purpose of the film: “To be at the service of humanism.”

The jury president, Alexander Desplat, had emphasized his opening speech at the Palazzo del Cinema Lido, where the reward failure ‘political and philosophical wisdom “of the Cinema and especially his role as “humanistic and poetic.”

‘A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence’ is the closure of existential trilogy Andersson and presents a series of 39 daily scenes on the absurdity of human behavior, with a careful composition influenced by artists such as Otto Dix, Georg Scholz and Renaissance Brueghel.

The second most important distinction of the contest, the Silver Lion for best director went to Russian director Andrei Konchalovsky, which already took him a decade ‘Dom durakov’ ago, set in a Chechen asylum. This time, Konchalovsky has captivated the jury with a tender docudrama about rural life in Russia, ‘The Postman’s White Nights’.

Based on real research and starring nonprofessional actors, the film revolves around a postman, Aleksei Triapitsyn, only connection to the outside world of the inhabitants of the lake Kenozero.

obsessive Madness

The Grand Jury Prize went to another film that I was also in all the pools, the documentary on the Indonesian genocide of American Joshua Oppenheimer, ‘The look of silence’, which also won the FIPRESCI international critics.

After reaching the final stages of the Oscars last year with ‘The Act of Killing “-the genocide told by the murderers themselves this time Oppenheimer focused on the focus victims, particularly in Adi Rukun, whose brother was brutally murdered by death squads in 1965

In the interpretive paragraph, the jury awarded Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher and tortuous descent into hell of a couple from the time they are going to be parents ‘Hungry Hearts’. What at first seems a mere excess of zeal on the part of the mother in caring for her son leads to an obsessive madness that makes him the comprehensive principle, decide to take their own measures.

Driver, known for his role in the HBO series’ Girls’ is currently shooting the next installment of ‘Star Wars’.En terms Alba Rohrwacher, and had worked with Costanzo in ‘The Solitude of Prime Numbers’ (2010) and also highlighted, with Tilda Swinton in “I Am Love” (2009).

The Iranian film was also prize at this year’s festival of the world’s oldest cinema. Rakhshan Banietemad was awarded the Best Screenplay Award thanks to ‘Tales’, a patchwork of intersecting stories of “invisible” characters in contemporary Iran.

The palmares of Venice complete with Turkish ‘Sivas’ debut Kaan Mujdeci, about the friendship between a boy and a dog, has won the Special Jury Prize . He also debutant Romain Paul, star of ‘Le dernier coup de marteau’ Alix Delaporte has won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Newcomer.