Leone d’Oro to “All the Beauty and the Blooshed” directed by the American author. Among the winners also Cate Blanchett Best Actress with “Tar” and Colin Farrell for Best Male Performance
Reversed all the predictions of the jury chaired by Julianne Moore, in Venice he wins All the Beauty and the Blooshed, the documentary by the American Laura Poitras about the activist and photographer Nad Goldin who talked about the underground culture of New York in the 70s, but also her militant struggle against the powerful Sackler family who produced a devastating drug for overdose crisis, donating money to museums, obtaining tax deductions in return. “Nad can’t be here for a retrospective, by the way it’s her birthday,” says Poitras. She is no stranger, in 2015 she won the Oscar for Citizenfour on the US security agency scandal reported by Snowden. It is the second time that the Golden Lion goes to a documentary, after Gianfranco Rosi awarded in 2013.
To Italy (present with five films in competition) the third prize, that of direction, goes to Luca Guadagnino. But the Festival is female, five directors out of the 23 in competition and they win the first two prizes. Grand Jury Prize a Saint-Omer of the only newcomer in the race, Alice Diop, who also takes the Lion of the future. French of Senegalese origin, you retraced a process that in 2016 caused a sensation in France, of Laurence Coly, an infanticidal mother, modern Medea who abandons her 15-month-old daughter on a French beach, “like an offer to the sea”. The Time.news linked to the epic. Here is Luca Guadagnino, best director for Bones and All: «I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for the artistic director Alberto Barbera who protects filmmakers. Cosmopolitan once badly tolerated by the Italian environment (“the film is a special marriage between Italy and America, cinema knows no borders”), leaves its traces of desire profuse in the cannibals of its romantic horror (the young Taylor Russel wins the «Mastroianni» prize).
To the super favorite Jafar Panahi con Bears don’t exist goes the special prize of the jury, which wins everywhere but cannot collect them: arrested, persecuted by the Iranian regime, chair remains empty. Standing ovation in the room, but among the faces of the spectators there remains the bewilderment because the cinema of reality is rewarded but not the reality of those in prison. Filmed clandestinely, remotely, the story in the form of a metaphor takes on the lack of freedom in his country: he (formerly the Golden Lion in 2000 for Dayereh) acts himself, directing a film in Turkey with the web cam centered on the parallel story of two couples: prohibitions, superstitions, fear. Best Actress is Cate Blanchett who thanks the team, cast and family and says that Todd Field’s Tar “changed my life as a human being.”
The actress is the imaginary conductor of the orchestra affirmed that she uses power as men do, manipulating, seducing a cellist: she will end up overwhelmed by accusations of sexual harassment. A curiosity: in the film it is said that she is the musical director of an important orchestra in Berlin, the reference is to the legendary Berliner Philharmoniker (photos of Karajan and Abbado are shown) who, however, have not given permission to shoot in their famous auditorium designed by Schauron , and the crew moved to Dresden. The actor is Colin Farrell who appears remotely with a bunch of bananas that he pretends to be the Coppa Volpi. He is the protagonist of The Banshees of Inisherin by Martin McDonagh: the director of Three posters in Ebbing, Missouri, already at the Lido, also wins for the screenplay, and is therefore the third double of the seventy-ninth edition, after Diop and Guadagnino. It is the story of a male friendship interrupted overnight in a remote Irish village. Metaphor of when the pain becomes even more unbearable when it is not motivated, and of the fate of a people, the Irish one, divided, torn apart by the civil war of 1923.
The Orizzonti section is also a woman: here Vera Gemma strikes, who appears with a cowboy hat and thanks «the two most important men of my life, my son Maximus and my father Giuliano Gemma»; the film takes inspiration from something that happened to her, it is titled like her, Vera (in the cast is her best friend Asia Argento); the two directors, Tizza Covi and the Austrian Reiner Frimmel, also took home the award. Goal: to bring viewers back to theaters after the box office collapse. A kind of last call.
September 10, 2022 (change September 11, 2022 | 19:08)
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