ROME — ROME (AP) — “Poor Issues,” a movie about Victorian-era feminine empowerment, gained the Golden Lion on Saturday at a Venice Movie Competition largely disadvantaged of Hollywood glamour due to the writers and actors strikes.
The movie, starring Emma Stone, gained the highest prize on the eightieth version of the pageant, which is commonly a predictor of Oscar glory. Receiving the award, director Yorgos Lanthimos mentioned the movie wouldn’t exist with out Stone, who was additionally a producer however was not on the Lido for the pageant.
“This movie is her, in entrance and behind the digicam,” Lanthimos mentioned.
The movie, based mostly on Alasdair Grey’s 1992 novel of the identical identify, tells the story of Bella Baxter, who’s introduced again to life by a scientist and, after a whirlwind studying curve, runs off with a sleazy lawyer and embarks on a collection of adventures devoid of the societal judgements of the period.
Different high winners on the Lido had been two movies shaming Europe for its migration insurance policies.
“Io Capitano,” (Me Captain) by Matteo Garrone, gained the award for finest director whereas Garrone’s younger star, Seydou Sarr, gained the award for finest younger actor. The movie tells the story of two younger boys’ odyssey from Dakar, Senegal, to the detention camps in Libya and at last throughout the Mediterranean to Europe.
Agnieszka Holland’s “Inexperienced Border,” about Europe’s different migration disaster on the Polish-Belarus border, gained the Particular Jury Prize.
“Persons are nonetheless hiding in forests, disadvantaged of their dignity, of their human rights, of their security, and a few of them will lose their lives right here in Europe,” Holland informed the viewers. “Not as a result of we don’t have the assets to assist them however as a result of we don’t need to.”
Peter Sarsgaard gained finest actor for “Reminiscence,” through which he co-stars with Jessica Chastain in a movie about excessive schoolers reuniting. In his acceptance speech, Sarsgaard referred to the strike and synthetic intelligence and the menace it poses to the trade and past.
“I believe we may all actually agree that an actor is an individual and {that a} author is an individual. However plainly we will’t,” he mentioned. “And that’s terrifying as a result of this work we do is about connection. And with out that, this animated house between us, this sacrament, this holy expertise of being human, might be handed over to the machines and the eight billionaires that personal them.”
Cailee Spaeny gained finest actress for “Priscilla,” Sofia Coppola’s portrait of the personal facet of Priscilla and Elvis Presley.
The jury was headed by Damien Chazelle and included Saleh Bakri, Jane Campion, Mia Hansen-Løve, Gabriele Mainetti, Martin McDonagh, Santiago Mitre, Laura Poitras and Shu Qi.