ROME – “Poor Things,” a movie about Victorian-era feminine empowerment, received the Golden Lion on Saturday at a Venice Film Festival in large part disadvantaged of Hollywood glamour on account of the writers and actors strikes.
The movie, starring Emma Stone, received the top prize at the 80th version of the competition, which is steadily a predictor of Oscar glory. Receiving the award, director Yorgos Lanthimos stated the movie wouldn’t exist with out Stone, who was once additionally a manufacturer however was once no longer at the Lido for the competition.
“This film is her, in front and behind the camera,” Lanthimos stated.
The movie, according to Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the similar identify, tells the story of Bella Baxter, who’s introduced again to existence via a scientist and, after a whirlwind finding out curve, runs off with a sleazy legal professional and embarks on a sequence of adventures devoid of the societal judgements of the period.
Other top winners at the Lido have been two motion pictures shaming Europe for its migration insurance policies.
“Io Capitano,” (Me Captain) via Matteo Garrone, received the award for easiest director whilst Garrone’s younger superstar, Seydou Sarr, received the award for easiest younger actor. The movie tells the tale of 2 younger boys’ odyssey from Dakar, Senegal, to the detention camps in Libya and after all around the Mediterranean to Europe.
Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border,” about Europe’s different migration disaster at the Polish-Belarus border, received the Special Jury Prize.
Peter Sarsgaard received easiest actor for “Memory,” during which he co-stars with Jessica Chastain in a movie about prime schoolers reuniting. In his acceptance speech, Sarsgaard referred to the strike and synthetic intelligence and the risk it poses to the trade.
Cailee Spaeny received easiest actress for “Priscilla,” Sofia Coppola’s portrait of the private side of Priscilla and Elvis Presley.
The jury was once headed via Damien Chazelle and incorporated Saleh Bakri, Jane Campion, Mia Hansen-Løve, Gabriele Mainetti, Martin McDonagh, Santiago Mitre, Laura Poitras and Shu Qi.