As noted by the pools, absurd humor and humanistic spirit of the Swedish director Roy Andersson ‘ A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence ‘ was served to take this Saturday with the Golden Lion at the 71 Venice Film Festival .
The other big favorite, ‘ Birdman ‘, Alejandro González Iñárritu , the 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.
Andersson, already seduced the jury of the Cannes Film Festival a few years ago with ‘ Songs from the second floor ‘, has 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 an example of what, in his opinion, should be the purpose of the film: “be at the service of humanism.”
The foreman, Alexander Desplat , had emphasized his opening speech at the Palazzo del Cinema Lido, where a malfunctioning reward “philosophical wisdom and policy” cinema, and especially its “humanistic and poetic” facet.
‘A pigeon sat on a branch reflecting on existence’ is the closure of existential trilogy Andersson and presenting 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 the Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsk i, which already took him a decade ago by ‘Dom durakov ‘, 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 .
“I feel like a child picking up gifts Christmas tree,” said Saturday Konchalovsky, who said: “All we do movies have a hidden child within us.”
Grand Jury Prize went to another film which 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 Prize.
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 focus on victims, particularly in Adi Rukun, whose brother was brutally murdered by death squads in 1965
The director, who was unable to collect the award in person, left recorded a video in which Rukun recalled that agreed to come face to face with the murderers of his brother in the film, they started because I wanted to recognize that what they did was wrong, because they were never prosecuted.
In the interpretation section, the jury awarded Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher and its tortuous descent into hell of a couple from the moment 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’, which prevented him from attending the closing ceremony of the Show, but it was present the day of the screening and caused a stir.
As for Alba Rohrwacher, he 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 by ‘ Tales ‘, a patchwork of intersecting stories of “invisible” characters in contemporary Iran.
The filmmaker, born in Tehran in 1954, considered this recognition, “a huge all Iranian cinema lovers gift.” Not surprisingly, no debut feature film since 2006, a period that coincides with the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (2005-2013).
The Venice palmares also includes two other films about the abandonment of children and the loss of innocence: the Turkish ‘Sivas’ debut Mujdeci Kaan, about the friendship between a boy and a dog, it won the Special Jury Prize.
And fellow debutant Paul Romain, star of “Le dernier coup de marteau” Alix Delaporte has won the Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Newcomer.
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