Sam Mendes and the jury in balance (almost) with the great films from the official selection
McQueen, Charles Bronson e James Coburn. With these premises it is really difficult to make a comparison with what the Studios offer us today. But it will be a good omen to at least encourage the younger generations to discover the film 50 years ago. The story is known, when the sleepy town of Rose Creek finds itself under the iron heel of tycoon Bartholomew Bogue, to find protection for desperate citizens, led by Emma Cullen, they hire seven outlaws, bounty hunters, gamblers and hitmen. From here a story unfolds that has its own moral in the Wild West. As our heroes prepare the city for the violent showdown they know is imminent, they find themselves fighting for something that goes beyond money.
But let's now move on to the award-winning films with the exception of Amat Escalante who was awarded ex aequo for the film LA REGIÓN SALVAJE (THE UNTAMED) e BIG WORLD (BIG BIG WORLD) We had anticipated a possible victory for the Turkish Reha Erdem. In particular:
LEONE D'ORO per illior movies a BABOGE HUMAYO (THE WOMAN WHO LEFT) The Lav Diaz
SILVER LION – GRAND JURY PRIZE to NOCTURNAL ANIMALS by Tom Ford
SILVER LION – AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR ex-aequo to Andrei Konchalovsky for the film PARADISE and to Amat Escalante for the film LA REGIÓN SALVAJE (THE UNTAMED)
COPPA VOLPI for best actress to Emma Stone in the film LA LA LAND by Damien Chazelle
COPPA VOLPI for best actor to Oscar Martínez in the film EL CIUDADANO ILUSTRE by Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat
AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY aNoah Oppenheim for the film JACKIE by Pablo Larraín
Instead the Leone del Futuro Jury – Premio Venezia Opera Prima "Luigi De Laurentiis", chaired by Kim Rossi Stuart awarded the prize to AKHER WAHED FINA (THE LAST OF US) Tunisian Ala Eddine Slim
The Orizzonti Jury, chaired by Robert Guédiguian awarded
the AWARD FOR THE BEST FILM to LIBERAMI by Federica Di Giacomo
the AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR to the Belgian Fien Troch for HOME
the SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to KOCA DÜNYA (BIG BIG WORLD) del Turco Reha Erdem
the AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS to Ruth Díaz in the film TARDE PARA LA IRA by the Spanish Raúl Arévalo (Spain)
the AWARD FOR BEST ACTOR to Nuno Lopes in the film SÃO JORGE by Portuguese director Marco Martins
The AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY went to KU QIAN (BITTER MONEY) In money bing (France, Hong Kong)
The AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM went to LA VOZ PERDIDA by Marcelo Martinessi (Paraguay, Venezuela, Cuba)
Infine il VENICE SHORT FILM NOMINATION FOR THE EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS 2016 a AMAIMIMBO in Jubossart's Pablo (Sweden, Estonia).
interior landscape, from a new perspective, intimate and immediate. There is no external narrator to mediate for the viewer. The result is the sensation of being “inside” Rem's head. This perspective allows the viewer to understand Rem's ideas in a way that would otherwise be impossible. But also an extra incentive for cinephiles to go to the Giardini and the Arsenale before leaving Venice.
For the WEEK OF CRITICISM we attended the screening of the Colombian film that won the 31st edition Los Nadie di di Juan Sebastián Mesa sul quale
we have some reservations. We liked AKHER WAHED FINA instead (THE LAST OF US) by the Tunisian Ala Eddine Slim awarded by the jury of the Venice First Opera Prize “Luigi De Laurentiis”.