Emma Stone-led ‘Poor Things’ wins prime prize at eightieth Venice Film Festival

By Associated Press

ROME: “Poor Things,” a movie about Victorian-era feminine empowerment, received the Golden Lion on Saturday at a Venice Film Festival largely disadvantaged of Hollywood glamour due to the writers and actors strikes.

The movie, starring Emma Stone, received the highest prize on the eightieth version of the competition, which is commonly a predictor of Oscar glory. Receiving the award, director Yorgos Lanthimos mentioned the movie wouldn’t exist with out Stone, who was additionally a producer however was not on the Lido for the competition.

“This film is her, in front and behind the camera,” Lanthimos mentioned.

The movie, based mostly on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the identical title, tells the story of Bella Baxter, who’s introduced again to life by a scientist and, after a whirlwind studying curve, runs off with a sleazy lawyer and embarks on a collection of adventures devoid of the societal judgements of the period.

Other prime winners on the Lido had been two movies shaming Europe for its migration insurance policies.

“Io Capitano,” (Me Captain) by Matteo Garrone, received the award for greatest director whereas Garrone’s younger star, Seydou Sarr, received the award for greatest younger actor. The movie tells the story of two younger boys’ odyssey from Dakar, Senegal, to the detention camps in Libya and eventually throughout the Mediterranean to Europe.

Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border,” about Europe’s different migration disaster on the Polish-Belarus border, received the Special Jury Prize.

“People are still hiding in forests, deprived of their dignity, of their human rights, of their safety, and some of them will lose their lives here in Europe,” Holland instructed the viewers. “Not because we don’t have the resources to help them but because we don’t want to.”

Peter Sarsgaard received greatest actor for “Memory,” during which he co-stars with Jessica Chastain in a movie about excessive schoolers reuniting. In his acceptance speech, Sarsgaard referred to the strike and synthetic intelligence and the menace it poses to the business and past.

“I feel we may all actually agree that an actor is an individual and {that a} author is an individual. But evidently we are able to’t,” he said. “And that’s terrifying as a result of this work we do is about connection. And with out that, this animated house between us, this sacrament, this holy expertise of being human, will probably be handed over to the machines and the eight billionaires that personal them.”

Cailee Spaeny received greatest actress for “Priscilla,” Sofia Coppola’s portrait of the personal aspect of Priscilla and Elvis Presley.

The jury was headed by Damien Chazelle and included Saleh Bakri, Jane Campion, Mia Hansen-Løve, Gabriele Mainetti, Martin McDonagh, Santiago Mitre, Laura Poitras and Shu Qi.

ROME: “Poor Things,” a movie about Victorian-era feminine empowerment, received the Golden Lion on Saturday at a Venice Film Festival largely disadvantaged of Hollywood glamour due to the writers and actors strikes.

The movie, starring Emma Stone, received the highest prize on the eightieth version of the competition, which is commonly a predictor of Oscar glory. Receiving the award, director Yorgos Lanthimos mentioned the movie wouldn’t exist with out Stone, who was additionally a producer however was not on the Lido for the competition.

“This film is her, in front and behind the camera,” Lanthimos mentioned.googletag.cmd.push(operate() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The movie, based mostly on Alasdair Gray’s 1992 novel of the identical title, tells the story of Bella Baxter, who’s introduced again to life by a scientist and, after a whirlwind studying curve, runs off with a sleazy lawyer and embarks on a collection of adventures devoid of the societal judgements of the period.

Other prime winners on the Lido had been two movies shaming Europe for its migration insurance policies.

“Io Capitano,” (Me Captain) by Matteo Garrone, received the award for greatest director whereas Garrone’s younger star, Seydou Sarr, received the award for greatest younger actor. The movie tells the story of two younger boys’ odyssey from Dakar, Senegal, to the detention camps in Libya and eventually throughout the Mediterranean to Europe.

Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border,” about Europe’s different migration disaster on the Polish-Belarus border, received the Special Jury Prize.

“People are still hiding in forests, deprived of their dignity, of their human rights, of their safety, and some of them will lose their lives here in Europe,” Holland instructed the viewers. “Not because we don’t have the resources to help them but because we don’t want to.”

Peter Sarsgaard received greatest actor for “Memory,” during which he co-stars with Jessica Chastain in a movie about excessive schoolers reuniting. In his acceptance speech, Sarsgaard referred to the strike and synthetic intelligence and the menace it poses to the business and past.

“I feel we may all actually agree that an actor is an individual and {that a} author is an individual. But evidently we are able to’t,” he said. “And that’s terrifying as a result of this work we do is about connection. And with out that, this animated house between us, this sacrament, this holy expertise of being human, will probably be handed over to the machines and the eight billionaires that personal them.”

Cailee Spaeny received greatest actress for “Priscilla,” Sofia Coppola’s portrait of the personal aspect of Priscilla and Elvis Presley.

The jury was headed by Damien Chazelle and included Saleh Bakri, Jane Campion, Mia Hansen-Løve, Gabriele Mainetti, Martin McDonagh, Santiago Mitre, Laura Poitras and Shu Qi.