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Finally, the Golden Lion is a woman and zooms in. In the edition of the postcovid exhibition, live emotions are assured by the presence of many winners, but the absolute winner of the edition connects from Pasadena with its protagonist and producer. Frances McDormand. The Golden Lion is Nomadland by the Chinese director, who moved to the United States for fifteen years, Chloe zhao, an intense film that narrates the world of nomads, travelers by choice or necessity who travel the country in their equipped van or camper. In a video, filmed with the truck behind them that accompanied them in the film, McDormand said: “Obviously we are not together, we greet you here from Pasadena, and we want to thank you from our entire team, from our colleagues for this Lion. And the roaring actress, paired with the director, adds: “See you on the road.”
Venice 77, McDormand in ‘Nomadland’ moves. Applause
The protagonist is Frances McDormand, also a producer, who plays Fern, who after the death of her husband and the depopulation of the rural town where she had lived for many years causes the closure of the quarry, the true engine of the local economy, starts a long journey where you will meet many different people in the vast landscapes of the American West. It was since 2010 (the year of Sofia Coppola with Somewhere) that a director did not obtain the highest award and in this edition with 8 directors out of 18 and with Cate Blanchett as president of the jury, the company has been replicated and from here the race for the Oscars, if nominated, she would be the first Asian director for best actor.
And Italy wins twice, first with Pietro Castellitto, director for the first time of The Predators as an award for best screenplay in the Horizons section and then with Pierfrancesco favino, actor (and producer) of Our father in which he is the alter ego of the director’s father, Claudio Noce, who was inspired by the attack suffered by his father, the deputy superintendent Alfonso Noce in the Years of the Lead. “I spent my Saturday as usual, dressed as a seventeenth century man wielding the sword (the reference is to the Veronesi movie he is filming Following the Musketeers, ed.) And instead you gave me the most beautiful surprise of my life – he said Favino – I thank Claudio Noce who trusted the man more than the actor and asked me to appreciate his greatest love and gratitude to the young Mattia Garaci. The award is his and of all those who have worked on this film. A teacher told me that when you make a movie it is like creating a star and I want to dedicate this award to all the stars, to the millions of screens that will welcome the stars and the eyes that will glow in the dark ”.
Venice 77, ‘Our Father’ Pierfrancesco Favino, father hero in the years of lead
The twenty-eight-year-old actor and director Castellitto said on stage: “Only the infamous and traitors are good to thank” and thanked the producer, distributors, Biennale and the jury “and my family who taught me to be honest with myself.” The award is dedicated to those who do not think like me because only by legitimizing the other can we have an exchange. The competition is with history, not with our time ”. The film narrates the encounter, the clash between two families, the Pavones and the Vismara, the first neo-fascist proletarians and the bourgeois and intellectuals, the others, both committed to making their way through the Roman jungle by whatever means.
Venice 77, Pietro Castellitto: “My predators suffer from refined fascism”
The ceremony live on RaiMovie and the Biennial’s social networks, again hosted by the godmother Anna foglietta, opens with a double contribution: poetry March 9, two thousand and twenty that excited during the confinement read by the playwright Mariangela gualtieri me Diodat, which after having won San Remo and the David prize, enchants the public also in the Great Hall of the Palazzo del Cinema, voice and guitar, with his Now with the violinist D’Erasmo on the black and white images of the exhibition. “We all had one thought, to get to tonight – said Anna Foglietta with emotion – and now I am really excited because” we made it “. We made history! Hundreds of young people met at the cinema, others were excited along with others behind the mask, how can you remain indifferent to the applause at the end of the film? We want to make a promise: to find a secret place between the head and the heart where to put the memory of this edition ”.
While the Silver Lion went to the Mexican dystopian cinema New order of Michel Franco. What speaks of a society where in the midst of the marriage of a scion of a good family a very violent popular revolution breaks out that ends up being repressed in a military coup. “I wrote the films six years ago, but I never imagined that it would be closer to reality than fantasy. This story shows that there are many things that need to be fixed, I made the film to make sure it didn’t get into a situation. So. During the pandemic, people who need support, I hope change is possible, I still believe in the future, the festival is a great example. “
The Marcello Mastroianni award dedicated to a debut talent went to the boy Rouhollah zamani Iranian movie star Children of the sun, the story of a group of underprivileged children who are immersed in a special treasure hunt. A special jury award went to Dorogie Tovarischi! (Dear comrades!) by russian director Andrei Konchalovsky, a black and white account of the massacre that took place in Novocherkassk on June 2, 1962, which became known only thirty years later. Best Screenplay Award for the film. The disciple by indian director Chaitanya tamhane story of a man who dedicated his whole life to Indian classical music.
