Published September 07,2024
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Spanish director Pedro Almodovar‘s first English-language film “The Room Next Door“, which tackles the hefty themes of euthanasia and local weather change, gained the celebrated Golden Lion award on the Venice Film Festival on Saturday.
Starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, the movie obtained an 18-minute standing ovation when it premiered at Venice earlier within the week – one of many longest in latest reminiscence.
Almodovar is a darling of the pageant circuit and was awarded a lifetime achievement award at Venice in 2019 for his daring, irreverent and sometimes humorous Spanish-language options.
He additionally gained an Oscar in the most effective overseas language class for his 1999 movie “All About My Mother”.
Now aged 74, he has determined to attempt his hand at English, focusing his lens on questions of life, loss of life and friendship. Speaking after gathering his prize, he stated euthanasia shouldn’t be blocked by politics or faith.
“I believe that saying goodbye to this world cleanly and with dignity is a fundamental right of every human being,” he stated, talking in Spanish.
He additionally thanked his two feminine stars for his or her performances.
“This award really belongs to them, it’s a film about two women and the two women are Julianne and Tilda,” he stated.
While “The Room Next Door” had been broadly tipped to win, the runner-up Silver Lion award was a shock, going to Italian director Maura Delpero for her slow-paced drama set within the Italian Alps throughout World War Two – “Vermiglio”.
Australia’s Nicole Kidman gained the most effective actress award for her risque position within the erotic “Babygirl”, the place she performs a hard-nosed CEO, who jeopardises each her profession and her household by having a poisonous affair with a younger, manipulative intern.
Kidman was in Venice on Saturday, however didn’t attend the awards ceremony after studying that her mom had died unexpectedly.
France’s Vincent Lindon was named finest actor for “The Quiet Son”, a topical, French-language drama a couple of household torn aside by extreme-right radicalism.
The finest director award went to American Brady Corbet for his 3-1/2 hour-long film “The Brutalist”, which was shot on 70mm celluloid and recounts the epic story of a Hungarian Holocaust survivor performed by Adrien Brody, who seeks to rebuild his life within the United States.
“We have the power to support each other and tell the Goliath corporations that try and push us around: ‘No, it’s three-and-a-half hours long and it’s on 70mm,” he instructed the auditorium on Saturday.
ROAD TO OSCARS
The pageant marks the beginning of the awards season and often throws up massive favourites for the Oscars, with eight of the previous 12 finest director awards on the Oscars going to movies that debuted at Venice.
The prize for finest screenplay went to Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega for “I’m Still Here”, a movie about Brazil’s army dictatorship, whereas the particular jury award went to the abortion drama “April”, by Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili.
Sarah Friedland, an American-Jewish filmmaker, gained the most effective director award for “Familiar Touch” in Venice’s Horizons part, which runs alongside the principle competitors. She used her acceptance speech to denounce Israel’s conflict in Gaza.
“I must note I am accepting this award on the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76th year of occupation,” she stated to loud applause. “I believe it is our responsibility as film workers … to address Israel’s impunity on the global stage.”
Among the flicks that left Venice’s Lido island empty-handed have been Todd Phillips’s “Joker: Folie à Deux,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga, the sequel to his authentic “The Joker” which claimed the highest prize right here in 2019.
Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer,” with Daniel Craig enjoying a homosexual drug addict, and Pablo Larrain’s Maria Callas biopic “Maria”, starring Angelina Jolie because the celebrated Greek soprano, additionally gained plaudits from the critics however didn’t get any awards.
The Venice jury this 12 months was headed by French actress Isabelle Huppert.
Source: www.anews.com.tr