79. Venice Film Festival: Silver Lion to Luca Guadagnino. To Taylor Russell the Mastroianni Award.

The 79th Venice Film Festival ended yesterday. Venice Film Festival and the official prizes of this edition were awarded during the awards ceremony by the five international juries. The jury chaired by Julianne Moore and composed of Mariano Cohn, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Audrey Diwan, Leila Hatami, Kazuo Ishiguro and Rodrigo Sorogoyen, after viewing the twenty-three films in competition awarded the Golden Lion for Best Film to All the Beauty and the Bloodshed by Laura Poitras (USA). The only documentary film in the competition, it tells the story of U.S. photographer Nan Goldin and her struggle against the Sackler family, owners of the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma, believed to be responsible for the opioid epidemic in the United States.

Silver Lion for Best Director goes instead to Luca Guadagnino for the film Bones and All (USA, Italy): a drama, horror, and sentimental genre, the film tells the story of first love between Maren (Taylor Russell), a girl learning to survive on the margins of society, and Lee (Timothée Chalamet), a loner with a fighting spirit; it is the on-the-road journey of two young people who, in a constant search for identity and beauty, try to find their place in a world full of danger and that cannot tolerate their nature. The film is the film adaptation of Camille DeAngelis ’ novel To the Bone published in 2015.

The film directed by Luca Guadagnino also goes home with the Marcello Mastroianni Award, given to Taylor Russell as a young emerging actress.

“The 79th. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica of the Venice Biennale,” said Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini, "has once again demonstrated its extraordinary vitality, underscored this year by the full return of the public, symbolized by the rediscovered possibility, after two years of pandemic, of welcoming artists and directors with warmth and enthusiasm on the red carpet. Italian cinema, with the Silver Lion to Guadagnino, to whom I offer my personal congratulations, and the other important awards collected thanks also to as many as five films in competition and the unanimous critical success that characterized every single screening, confirms that it is living a great moment, which should be encouraged and supported with appropriate initiatives, such as the upcoming Cinema in Festa or the significant investment on Cinecittà."

Pictured is Luca Guadagnino. Credit Ansa

79. Venice Film Festival: Silver Lion to Luca Guadagnino. To Taylor Russell the Mastroianni Award.

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