2023-09-09 09:14:55
Time.news – Tonight after 11 days of great cinema, the Venice Film Festival ends with the awarding of the Golden Lion and the other most important prizes.
An obligatory favorite is the film he has critics and audiences were most impressed by ‘Poor Things’ by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos: screened on Friday 1 September, it received ten minutes of applause and Emma Stone’s performance (the clear favorite for the Volpi Cup) was particularly appreciated. According to critics, four other films could compete for the Golden Lion for the Greek director. Starting from ‘I captain’ by Matteo Garrone – who has already taken home the Agiscuola Golden Lion and the Sngci Pasinetti Award – whose story from the migrants’ side of a journey of hope from Sudan to Italy interpreted by African actors and performed in Sudanese and French was liked Very.
Another strong candidate is ‘The Green Border’, the new film by Agnieszka Holland which deals with the very current issue of migrants trapped between Belarus and Poland, refugees from the Middle East and Africa who try to reach the European Union and find themselves in the middle of a geopolitical crisis cynically engineered by the Belarusian dictator Aljaksandr Lukanko.
The other two films that complete the quartet of the most accredited rivals to ‘Poor Creatures’ are the films of the great Japanese director Rysuke Hamaguchi, ‘Aku Wa Sonzai Shinai (Evil does not Exist)’ which tells of the arrival from Tokyo of two representatives of a company that would like to build a glamping site in the woods a few steps from Takumi’s home, an offer that if accepted could drastically alter his lifestyle and that of the other inhabitants . Then, there is ‘Maestro’ by and with Bradley Cooper.
The appointment is this evening at 7pm for the awards ceremony hosted by Caterina Murino which will be followed by the screening of ‘La sociedad de la nieve’ by the Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona, presented out of competition. The ‘Venezia 80’ jury, chaired by the American director Damien Chazelle, will award the following official prizes to the feature films in competition: Golden Lion for best film, Silver Lion – Grand Jury Prize, Silver Lion – Award for best direction, Volpi Cup for best female performance, Volpi Cup for best male performance, Special Jury Award, Award for best screenplay, Marcello Mastroianni Award to an emerging young actor or actress.
The jury of the ‘Venezia Opera Prima’ Award chaired by the French director Alice Diop will award without the possibility of ex aequo, among all the first feature films present in the various competitive sections of the Exhibition (Official Selection and Autonomous and Parallel Sections), the Lion of the Future – Venezia Opera Prima “Luigi De Laurentiis” Award, and a prize of 100,000 dollars, made available by Filmauro, which will be divided equally between the director and the producer. The ‘Orizzonti’ jury chaired by the Italian director Jonas Carpignano will award – without the possibility of ex-aequo – the following prizes: Orizzonti Prize for the best film, Orizzonti Prize for the best direction, Orizzonti Special Jury Prize, Orizzonti Prize for the best female performance , Orizzonti Award for best male performance, Orizzonti Award for best screenplay, Orizzonti Award for best short film.
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