Venice Film Festival: "L'Événement", by French Audrey Diwan, wins the Golden Lion
French director Audrey Diwan won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival with her film "L'Événement", Saturday September 11, 2021. AFP - FILIPPO MONTEFORTE
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The 78th Mostra ended on Saturday September 11, 2021 in Venice with a very feminine and very feminist prize list.
It gives pride of place to French cinema.
The
film
L'Événement
, by Audrey Diwan, won the most prestigious award: the Golden Lion.
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With our special
correspondent in Venice,
Sophie Torlotin
After Cannes, it is Venice which crowns a woman.
Audrey Diwan won the Golden Lion for her second feature film:
L'Événement
.
The Franco-Lebanese novelist adapts a refined account by Annie Ernaux, chronicle of her clandestine abortion in traditional France of the 1960s.
The jury chaired by the South Korean Bong Joon-ho awards this award unanimously to a period film, certainly, but still cruelly topical.
Another filmmaker receives the Silver Lion for Best Director: New Zealander Jane Campion, who returns to the cinema with
La part du chien
, a western and a psychological thriller about masculinity.
And it's another woman who receives the award for best screenplay: actress and producer Maggie Gyllenhaall, celebrated for her adaptation of an Elena Ferrante novel,
The Lost Daughter
.
Spanish star Penélope Cruz won the Best Actress award for her role in
Parallel Mothers
, by her favorite director Pedro Almodovar.
And it is the Filipino actor John Arcilla who receives the award for male interpretation for his role as a journalist confronted with "fake news" and corruption in
On the Job 2: The Missing 8
.
► Also listen: Two novels, two eras, France at the Venice Film Festival
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