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News from the NOS•yesterday, 20:57•Modified yesterday, 22:29
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At the Venice Film Pageant the most significant prize, the Golden Lion, was awarded to a documentary. All the natural beauty and the bloodshed director Laura Poitras talks about well known American photographer Nan Goldin (68) and her combat versus the controversial Sackler spouse and children, homeowners of a pharmaceutical firm that generates addictive painkillers this sort of as Oxycontin. Goldin himself depended on this.
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The family donates large sums to artwork institutions and Goldin accuses them of executing so just to enhance their track record. Important museums will no for a longer time take donations from the Sacklers.
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It is the 2nd time that the most important prize in Venice goes to a documentary. This happened in early 2013.
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Fifteen minutes of ovation
The silver lion went to the aspect movie Saint-Omer by director Alice Diop, about a female on trial accused of abandoning her infant on the beach front of the seaside vacation resort in northern France.
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Australian-American star Cate Blanchett was named Best Actress. She acquired the award for her starring role in LIBRARYthe tale of an imaginary principal conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic accused of sexual abuse.
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Irish actor Colin Farrell received the very best actor award. He was awarded for the position of him in The Banshees of Inisherin by director Martin McDonagh, about two pals, one particular of whom all of a sudden ends their friendship. At its premiere in Venice this 7 days, the film obtained an ovation fifteen minutes later.
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The jury of this year’s movie festival was led by British actress Julianne Moore.
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