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American director Todd Phillips, here alongside his favorite comedian Joaquin Phoenix, received the Golden Lion of this 76th Mostra for his movie "Joker" on September 7, 2019. Alberto PIZZOLI / AFP

The 76th Mostra, the international film festival of Venice, which opened on a controversy because of the selection of J'accuse , the last film of Roman Polanski, finally rewarded with the Palmarès, closed its curtain on a list of expected and consensual.

A superhero revisited. Joker , the anti-Batman succeeds Mexican Roma Alfonso Cuarón topped the charts of the 76th Mostra. " That an industry like the United States takes the risk of making 'Joker' is brave. It's a reflection on the heroes and the anti-heroes, "said the president of the jury, the Argentine director Lucrecia Martel , at a press conference.

Lucrecia Martel had fed the controversy, at the opening of the Mostra, expressing his embarrassment at the presence in competition of the last feature film of Roman Polanski , J'accuse, because of the lawsuits against the director in the United States for the rape The film, a political thriller revisiting the Dreyfus Affair, an anti-Semitic scandal of the late nineteenth century in France, was finally awarded the Grand Prix of the jury, second grand prize of the festival. It is the wife of the director, the French actress Emmanuelle Seigner, who came to get her prize.

The Volpi Cup for best female performer went to Ariane Ascaride's French for Gloria Mundi by Robert Guédiguian and the best male performer to Italian Luca Marinelli for Martin Eden by Pietro Marcello. Both have dedicated their prizes to migrants who are at risk of their lives in the Mediterranean and those who save them. The Italian actor dedicated his prize to " all those who save people at sea ", and Ariane Ascaride, recalling that she came from a family of Italian immigrants, came to France to " flee misery ", has dedicated its prize to " those who live for eternity at the bottom of the Mediterranean ".

►The main awards of the winners of the 76th Mostra

- Golden Lion for best movie: Joker of American Todd Phillips

- Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize: I accuse of French-Polish Roman Polanski

- Silver Lion Best Director : Roy Andersson (Sweden) for About Endlessness

- Award for Best Screenplay: No. 7 Cherry Lane of Hong Kong Yonfan

- Special Jury Prize: The Mafia No Piu Quella Di Una Volta (The Mafia is not what it was) from the Italian Franco Maresco

- Volpi Cup of the Best Female Performer: French Ariane Ascaride for Gloria Mundi by Robert Guédiguian

- Volpi Cup for Best Male Performer: Italian Luca Marinelli for Martin Eden by Pietro Marcello

- Marcello-Mastroianni Award for Best Hope: Australian Toby Wallace for Babyteeth by Shannon Murphy

- Golden Lion for their entire career to Spanish director Pedro Almodovar and British actress Julie Andrews

with AFP