Cat Bauer at Variety opening party - Danieli Terrace - Venice Film Festival |
By now, if you have been following the action, you will know that the top prize of the Golden Lion surprised everyone by going to From Afar (Desde AllĂ ), Venezuela's first-ever entry into the film festival. Written and directed by Lorenzo Vigas, it is a dark drama about the chilling relationship between a middle-aged gay dental technician and the violent young street thug he takes into his home. It would not have been my choice, but I can understand why it won with a jury headed by Alfonso Cuaron.
MOVIES I LIKED:
A War directed by Tobias Lindholm |
Heart of a Dog by Laurie Anderson |
From Indiewire:
"Haunting and celebratory at once, "Heart of a Dog" ultimately amounts to a contemplation of mortality. "The purpose of death is the release of life," Anderson asserts, in one of several moments that hint at a bigger picture."
Rosa Tran, Tom Noonan, Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman, Jennifer Jason Lee for Anomalisa |
From Screen Crush:
"If Anomalisa was just formally brilliant, it would be worth seeing for that alone. But it's also as emotionally moving as it is intellectually stimulating. Puppets or not, Michael and Lisa are amongst the richest and most human characters in any movie in recent memory, and Kaufman remains without peer among working directors at simultaneously critiquing and empathizing with his lovably flawed characters and their bottomless neuroses."
Cat Bauer with Tanna cast - Venice Film Festival |
I hope that Tanna gets a wide release. Even though the cast speaks their native language, I think this is one of the rare films that non-industry audiences will watch with subtitles.
Remote South Pacific Tribe Arrives in Venice - TANNA at the Venice Film Festival
Future rentals: I enjoyed Amy Berg's Janis documentary about Janis Joplin, and was surprisingly entertained by De Palma by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, which was basically Brian De Palma, who received this year's Jaeger-Lecoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award, talking about all his films. Remember is worth renting if only for Christopher Plummer's performance of a 90-year-old man sent out by Martin Landau, his nursing home neighbor, to get revenge on a former Nazi who killed their families at Auschwitz. Some critics didn't like Shia LaBeouf as an Afghanistan war veteran in Man Down, but I did. The delectable food and gorgeous scenery in A Bigger Splash will make everyone wish they lived in Italy.Jonathan Demme |
72 Venice International Film Festival Winners
Golden Lion: From Afar (Lorenzo Vigas)
Silver Lion for Best Director: Pablo Trapero (The Clan)
Grand Jury Prize: Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson)
Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Fabrice Luchini (L’Hermine)
Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Valeria Golino (Per Amor Vostro)
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best Young Actor: Abraham Attah, (Beasts Of No Nation)
Best Screenplay: Christian Vincent (L’Hermine)
Special Jury Prize: Frenzy (Emin Alper)
Venice Horizons
Best Film: Free In Deed (Jake Mahaffy)
Best Director: Brady Corbet (The Childhood of a Leader)
Special Jury Prize: Neon Bull (Gabriel Mascaro)Special Prize for Best Actor: Dominique Leborne (TempĂȘte)
Best Short Film: Belladonna (Dubravka Turic)
Lion of the Future – "Luigi De Laurentiis" Venice Award for a Debut Film: The Childhood of a Leader (Brady Corbet)
Venice Classics
Best Documentary on Cinema: The 1000 Eyes of Dr Maddin (Yves Montmayeur)
Best Restoration: Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Ciao from Venezia,
Cat Bauer
Venetian Cat - The Venice Blog
If Anomalisa was just formally brilliant, it would be worth seeing for that alone. But it’s also as emotionally moving as it is intellectually stimulating. Puppets or not, Michael and Lisa are amongst the richest and most human characters in any movie in recent memory, and Kaufman remains without peer among working directors at simultaneously critiquing and empathizing with his lovably flawed characters’ and their bottomless neuroses.Read More: ‘Anomalisa’ Review: A Stop-Motion Masterpiece From Charlie Kaufman | http://screencrush.com/anomalisa-review-tiff/?trackback=tsmclip
If Anomalisa was just formally brilliant, it would be worth seeing for that alone. But it’s also as emotionally moving as it is intellectually stimulating. Puppets or not, Michael and Lisa are amongst the richest and most human characters in any movie in recent memory, and Kaufman remains without peer among working directors at simultaneously critiquing and empathizing with his lovably flawed characters’ and their bottomless neuroses.Read More: ‘Anomalisa’ Review: A Stop-Motion Masterpiece From Charlie Kaufman | http://screencrush.com/anomalisa-review-tiff/?trackback=tsmclip
If Anomalisa was just formally brilliant, it would be worth seeing for that alone. But it’s also as emotionally moving as it is intellectually stimulating. Puppets or not, Michael and Lisa are amongst the richest and most human characters in any movie in recent memory, and Kaufman remains without peer among working directors at simultaneously critiquing and empathizing with his lovably flawed characters’ and their bottomless neuroses.Read More: ‘Anomalisa’ Review: A Stop-Motion Masterpiece From Charlie Kaufman | http://screencrush.com/anomalisa-review-tiff/?trackback=tsmclip
If Anomalisa was just formally brilliant, it would be worth seeing for that alone. But it’s also as emotionally moving as it is intellectually stimulating. Puppets or not, Michael and Lisa are amongst the richest and most human characters in any movie in recent memory, and Kaufman remains without peer among working directors at simultaneously critiquing and empathizing with his lovably flawed characters’ and their bottomless neuroses.Read More: ‘Anomalisa’ Review: A Stop-Motion Masterpiece From Charlie Kaufman | http://screencrush.com/anomalisa-review-tiff/?trackback=tsmclip
It always takes awhile to return to reality after the relentless pace of the Venice International Film Festival. By now, if you have been following the action, you will know that the top prize of the Golden Lion surprised everyone by going to From Afar (Desde AllĂ ), Venezuela's first-ever entry into the film festival.
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