The spotlights are turned off on the Venice Film Festival, 75th year. No prizes for Italian cinema present with over 20 films in the selection, three of which are competing for the Golden Lion – Capri Revolution of Martone, What to do when the world is on fire? by Minervini, Suspiria by Guadagnino – and came out of the event with a blank palmares.
Il Golden Lion for best film goes to: Roma by Alfonso Cuarón (Mexico), produced by Netflix, the giant of online streaming that has also become a major production company in cinema as well as TV series since 2014. The film will be seen on Netflix in December and, according to what is learned, will also be released in the same month in selected cinemas. Even the Coen brothers' film, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, which won the Best Screenplay award, is produced by Netflix. A "parallel" circuit, that of Netflix, is therefore leaving Venice, growing and strengthening in the face of a continuous reduction in visits to cinemas in crisis due to the decline in spectators.
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OTHER AWARDS
Il Grand Jury Prize will The Favourite by Yorgos Lanthimos (UK, Ireland, USA).
Il Silver Lion for Best direction to: Jacques Audiard for the film The sisters brothers (France, Belgium, Romania, Spain).
La Coppa Volpi for best actress goes to Olivia Colman in the film The favorite by Yorgos Lanthimos (UK, Ireland,
La Coppa Volpi for the best actor goes to Willem Dafoe in the film At eternity's gate by Julian Schnabel (USA, France)
The award for the best screenplay goes to Joel & Ethan Coen for the movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs by Joel & Ethan Coen
Two awards for the Australian film The Nightingale by Jennifer Kent (Australia): the Special Jury Prize and the Marcello Mastroianni Prize to a young emerging actor: Baykali Ganambarr.
The Jury chaired by Susanne Bier and made up of Alessandro Baricco and Clémence Poésy, after having viewed the 30 projects in the competition, assigns: – the Best Immersive Story VR Award at Spheres by Eliza McNitt (USA, France); - The Best Vr Experience Award for interactive content a Buddy VR by Chuck Chae (Republic of Korea); - The Best Vr Story Award for linear content a The Ile des Morts by Benjamin Nuel (France).
The Jury chaired by Salvatore Mereu and made up of 25 students – indicated by the professors – from film courses at Italian universities, DAMS and the Venetian Ca' Foscari, assigns: – the Classical Venice Award for the best documentary on cinema to: The great buster: a celebration by Peter Bogdanovich (USA) – the Venice Classics Award for Best Restored Film a The night of San Lorenzo by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani (Italy, 1982).
