The film «Nomadland» by Chloé Zhao on Saturday won the Golden Lion in Venice, awarded by the jury of the 77th Exhibition chaired by Australian actress Cate Blanchett.
The 38-year-old Chinese-American director is the first woman to receive this prestigious award since Sofia Coppola, another American, in 2010 with « Somewhere ».
The film, one of the few American productions presented this year in Venice, features two Oscar-winning actress Frances McDormand, in the role of a broken woman who leaves everything to live on the road.
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This melancholy road trip is a dive into the world of «Of dwellers» (“Inhabitants of the caravans”), those Americans who live in their converted vehicle, doing odd jobs. They meet in community, at random on their route, or on social networks (#vanlife). The film will be released on December 30 in France.
The Grand Jury Prize was awarded to ” New order “ by Michel Franco (Mexico), and the Silver Lion for Best Director went to Japanese Kiyoshi Kurosawa for “The sacrificed lovers”.
On the performer side, the British Vanessa Kirby, who became known for her role of Princess Margaret in the series « The Crown », is crowned for her first title role at the cinema in « Pieces of a woman » by Hungarian Kornel Mundruczo. She plays a woman whose life is turned upside down when her home birth goes wrong.
Italian actor Pierfrancesco Favino was awarded for his role as a senior Italian official targeted by a terrorist attack during the “Years of lead” in “Our Father” scored by Claudio Noce.
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