The Swedish film “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence” (“A pigeon sitting on a branch pondering the existence” in free translation), director Roy Andersson, won Saturday the Golden Lion Festival Venice Film.
The main prize of the 71st edition of reward a film festival of humorous skits, which seeks to explore the human condition in all its diversity.
With two short and three long 20-year career, the filmmaker, of 71 years, was able to consolidate his unique, very personal, characterized by a comedy of the absurd and poetic images.
“Style is the first Swedish film that wins the Golden Lion, “he said, adding:” I’m very proud. “
” It’s a great honor to receive this award, and particularly here in Italy, a country that has given so many works of art to the movies, “said Roy Andersson, to receive the statuette in the Palazzo del Cinema.
The director thanked the great master of Neorealism, the Italian Vittorio De Sica, for his legacy to the world cinema, reminiscent of the classic “Bicycle Thieves” , 1948.
“That scene, when the husband of this couple on the bike need will engage in ‘Bicycle Thieves’ and discovers many other poor people like him who also leave your own bike … This only scene worth for all. A scene full of humanity, empathy, “he said.
The Silver Lion for best director, got the Russian by Andrei Konchalovski” Belye Nochi Pochtalona Alekseya Tryapitsyna “(” The Postman White Nights “in English), set in a remote region of the former Soviet Union, a poetic portrait of rural Russia today through the eyes of a postman.
“I’m happy as a kid in front of the Christmas tree,” said the director, very emotional.
But the Grand Jury Prize for the film was to show the horror of the genocide of 1960 in Indonesia, narrated in a terrifying documentary by American Joshua Oppenheimer.’s work puts face face killers and survivors, victims and executioners.
“I made this film because I hoped that the killers admitted their guilt. It is the only way out of the trap of fear. But no one wanted to accept his own guilt, “Oppenheimer said in a statement sent by video
.” With the award of Venice, the protagonist – to interview the killers of his brother – begins to heal your pain “he added.
The American Adam Driver, of the HBO series” Girls, “won the best actor award for his portrayal in the film from Italian Saverio Costanzo,” Hungry Hearts “, shot in New York. Italian actress Alba Rohrwacher took the Volpi Cup for his role in the same film.
One of the big favorites of critics and the public, “Birdman”, the Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, took no statuette.
The jury of the oldest film festival in the world, chaired this year by French film composer Alexandre Desplat, acknowledged the difficulty of choosing between 20 works of high quality.
At the press conference, Desplat said the resolutions “will remain secret,” why hardly know what made the film González Iñárritu be passed over, after being considered a “masterpiece” by international critics.
The same happened in 2013, with “Gravity” by Alfonso Cuarón also Mexican, who has not had a single statue in Venice, but won seven Oscars in Hollywood.
For the Italian newspaper “La Repubblica”, the verdict divided critics and moviegoers.
“As is tradition, the predictions were not confirmed”, published the newspaper “Il Corriere della Sera”.
Another surprise was the highly-rated “Anime nere “Francesco Nunzi, on the Calabrian mafia, which was also empty.
But the special jury prize was awarded to Turkish film” Sivas “Kaan Mujdeci, which had been criticized by the press specialized.
The best screenplay award went to Iranian “Ghesseha” (“Tales” in English), the Rakhshan Banietemad, a series of interwoven stories in Tehran.
Mastroianni was with the talented young Frenchman Romain Paul, considered the new Gérard Depardieu, star of “Le dernier coup de marteau”, the French also Alix Delaporte
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