Venice Film Festival: Penélope Cruz crowned best actress

AFP edited by Europe1 .fr 9:43 p.m., September 11, 2021

Spanish star Penélope Cruz won the award for best female performance in Venice on Saturday night for her role in "Madres Paralelas", her new collaboration with compatriot Pedro Almodovar.

The director had already allowed her to be rewarded in 2007 by the interpretation price in Cannes for "Volver"

Thank you Pedro, you created a magic, I adore you", reacted Penélope Cruz by receiving her prize.

A tailor-made role for Penélope Cruz

Film that opened the 78th edition of the Mostra, "Madres Paralelas"

is built on the crossroads of two women who give birth on the same day in the same maternity hospital, and Penélope Cruz plays a forty-year-old photographer who becomes pregnant with an archaeologist and married friend, who has promised to help her find the burial of his great-grandfather, who died at the start of the Spanish Civil War.

A tailor-made role for the 47-year-old actress, born in 1974 to a modest family in the suburbs of Madrid.

Le Lion d'Or for French director Audrey Diwan

French director Audrey Diwan, 41, received the Golden Lion in Venice for "L'Événement", a raw, intimate and feminist film about a young woman who clandestinely aborts. The film, adapted from the eponymous autobiographical story by novelist Annie Ernaux, takes place in France in the 1960s, before abortion was legalized. It shows the journey of a young student who becomes pregnant, played by the Franco-Romanian Anamaria Vartolomei. With her Golden Lion, Audrey Diwan succeeds the Chinese-American Chloé Zhao, crowned last year for "Nomadland

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