Saturday 10 September 2011

"Faust" Wins Goleden Lion Award

Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov won the Venice Film Festival's top prize, the Golden Lion, for his movie "Faust," defeating submissions from Roman Polanski, David Cronenberg and George Clooney. The jury -- led by U.S. filmmaker Darren Aronofsky, whose "Black Swan" was in the competition last year -- opted for Sokurov's free adaptation of the Goethe tragedy. It's the fourth in a series on the theme of power, the first three being portrayals of Hitler, Lenin and Japan's late Emperor Hirohito.Michael Fassbender won the best-actor trophy for his role as the solitary sex addict in Steve McQueen's "Shame." Recognized as the festival's best actress was Deannie Yip for "A Simple Life," the story of a Chinese housekeeper who moves to an old people's home after decades serving one family. The best director award went to China's Shangjun Cai for "Ren Shan Ren Hai," a last-minute addition to the competition lineup. Italy came away with a prize too: "Terraferma" by Emanuele Crialese, the story of a Sicilian fishing village coping with an influx of African migrants. Polanski had been in the running with "Carnage," adapted from a play by Yasmina Reza and filmed entirely in an apartment interior. Starring Jodie Foster and Kate Winslet, it showed two sets of parents having a meeting after one kid beat and hurt another. Clooney was competing with "The Ides of March," a pitiless portrayal of U.S. politics, with himself in the role of a smooth senator. Cronenberg's entry, "A Dangerous Method," also stars Fassbender as well as Keira Knightley, and tells of Carl Jung's entanglement with a young Russian patient.



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