Venice 81, Volpi Cup to Kidman and Lindon • il Millimetro

(Adnkronos) – Coppa Volpi for Best Actress goes to Nicole Kidman at the 81st Venice Film Festival. In Halina Reijn’s ‘Babygirl’, Kidman plays a powerful manager who jeopardizes her career and family when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern. For Best Actor, the Coppa Volpi goes to Vincent Lindon at the 81st Venice Film Festival. In Delphine and Muriel Coulin’s ‘Jouer avec le feu (The Quiet Son),’ Lindon plays Pierre, a single father who sees his family fall apart when his children reach adulthood. While Louis prepares to start university, Fus distances himself by embracing right-wing extremism, in open contrast with his father’s values. “To my fellow producers and directors, I would like to say that we should be more reactive in the face of the new, terrible law on cinema.” Thus Nanni Moretti on the stage of the Venice Film Festival, collecting the Venice Classics Award for best restored film with ‘Ecce Bombo’ (1978). “I am grateful for this unexpected, disproportionate and exaggerated award given that there were films by De Sica, Antonioni and other greats of cinema in the competition”, the director commented. “Thank you but perhaps you have exaggerated a bit. This means that after so much time this old film is still able to speak to a young audience today”, he concludes. At the 81st Venice Film Festival, Paul Kircher wins the Marcello Mastroianni Award, given to an emerging young actor. Kircher received the award for the film ‘Leurs Enfants Après Eux (And their children after them)’ by Ludovic Boukherma and Zoran Boukherma. “I share this award with all the actors of my generation” said Francesco Gheghi upon receiving the ‘Orizzonti’ award for best actor for the film ‘Familia’ by Francesco Costabile, which tells a story of domestic violence. In tears and with a broken voice, the actor thanked the director “for his trust”. An award that Gheghi dedicates to his parents “for having raised me as a child full of love and serenity, something that we take too much for granted and this film tells us about it. And then I dedicate it to my sister, to my grandfather who watches me from up there and to Gigi Celeste (who inspired the film, ed.), who had the courage to share his story and his pain”, he concludes. —[email protected] (Web Info)