For the third consecutive 12 months, Venice Movie Pageant has awarded its prime prize, the Golden Lion, to a movie by a lady director. Following within the footsteps of Chloé Zhao in 2020 (“Nomadland”) and Audrey Diwan in 2021 (“Taking place”), Laura Poitras landed the award for “All of the Magnificence and the Bloodshed,” a doc about artist Nan Goldin and her battle to carry the Sackler household accountable for his or her function within the opioid epidemic.
“All of the Magnificence and the Bloodshed” can be screening at Toronto and can function New York Movie Pageant’s (NYFF) Centerpiece movie. Movie rights to the pic have been acquired by Neon, whereas HBO landed TV and streaming rights.
One other competition darling, Alice Diop’s courtroom drama “Saint Omer,” obtained Venice’s Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize. It additionally received the Horizons part’s Lion of the Future aka the Luigi De Laurentiis Award for a Debut Movie. “Saint Omer,” too, is screening at TIFF and can be making its option to NYFF later this month.
Different notable Venice wins embody Greatest Actress, which went to Cate Blanchett for “Tár,” a portrait of a genius, pioneering conductor-composer, and Taylor Russell receiving the Marcello Mastroianni Award for for Greatest New Younger Actor or Actress for cannibalism romance “Bones and All.”
Among the many large Horizons winners are “Vera,” a drama a couple of high-society girl who befriends the kid she injures in a visitors accident, in addition to his father. Tizza Covi, who took dwelling Greatest Director for the movie, alongside her co-director Rainer Frimmel, and Vera Gemma nabbed Greatest Actress for her main flip. Soudade Kaadan obtained Horizons Additional’s Viewers Award for “Nezouh,” the story of a Syrian teen whose world unexpectedly expands when a bomb rips an enormous gap within the roof of her household dwelling.
As for the Venice Classics part, KD Davison received Greatest Documentary for “Fragments of Paradise,” which focuses on the avant-garde poet and filmmaker Jonas Mekas.
Take a look at the complete checklist of Venice winners over at Deadline.
Supply: Women And Hollywood
