The Italian Luca Guadagnino, was awarded the Silver Lion for Best Direction for ‘Bones and All’
The documentary ‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’, by Laura Poitras, which addresses the opioid crisis in the United States, yesterday won the Golden Lion at the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival. The film tells the story of photographer Nan Goldin, queen of the New York underground in the 1970s and 1980s and a woman who fought the opioid epidemic, whose abuse has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
The jury, chaired by American actress Julianne Moore, awarded Australian Cate Blanchett best actress for her brilliant performance as a conductor in Todd Field’s film ‘TAR’, a drama about the abuse of power. It is the second time that Venice honors the acclaimed actress, 53, who has put her fame and talent at the service of the feminist struggle, after ‘I’m not There’ by Todd Haynes, a film in which she gave life fifteen years to another musician, Bob Dylan.
The Italian Luca Guadagnino, was awarded the Silver Lion for Best Direction for ‘Bones and All’. Jafar Panahi, a repressed Iranian filmmaker who is imprisoned in his country, once again outwitted his jailers by obtaining the special jury prize for his film ‘No Bears’, a film that recreates the life of a persecuted artist.
Colin Farrell won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in Martin McDonagh’s ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’. Thanks to this film, the filmmaker won the award for best screenplay. The film talks about toxic masculinity, war, intellectual arrogance and the desire to find meaning in life.