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Cuaron’s ‘Roma’wins Golden Lion
    2018-09-10  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

ALFONSO CUARON is riding high in Venice once again, taking home the Golden Lion for his critically acclaimed “Roma.” The prize was given to him by jury president and friend Guillermo del Toro, who joked that he wasn’t sure if he could pronounce his name.

Cuaron previously conquered the Lido in 2013 with “Gravity,” which opened the festival out of competition, and went on to win seven Academy Awards.

The Three Amigos, as del Toro, Cuaron and Inarritu are known, are officially unstoppable at the Italian festival. Last year del Toro took home the Golden Lion for “The Shape of Water” before going on to win best picture at the Oscars.

And Inarritu premiered “Birdman” in Venice in 2014 before going on to win best picture. Inarritu, who has been in the Venice competition lineup twice, is now the “lone amigo” without a Lion.

“Roma” is a semi-autobiographical black-and-white film on Cuaron’s early upbringing in 1970s Mexico City, seen through the eyes of his housekeeper Cleo. While Netflix has not yet committed to a theatrical release before it hits the streamer, this prize will certainly put weight behind an Oscar campaign for the film.

Fox Searchlight also has a serious Oscar contender on its hands with grand jury prize winner, Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favorite,” a period drama about the politic and romantic inner workings of a royal court. Olivia Colman also won the Volpi Cup for best actress for her incredible turn as Queen Anne in the film.

Willem Dafoe won the Volpi Cup for best actor for taking on the role of tormented artist Vincent van Gogh in Julien Schnabel’s non-traditional biopic “At Eternity’s Gate,” which is also getting a lot of Oscar buzz for Dafoe in what many critics are calling the role of his career.

Joel and Ethan Coen won best screenplay for “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.”

Jennifer Kent’s “The Nightingale,” the only female-directed film in competition, took home the special jury prize.

It stars Aisling Franciosi as a young Irish convict who hunts the man who wronged her with the help of an aboriginal tracker played by Baykali Ganambarr, who won the Marcello Mastroianni actor award for best new talent.

The best VR film is “Spheres,” an experience that takes viewers into outer space to explore the sounds of the cosmos.

(SD-Agencies)

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