director Roy Andersson is satisfied. Photo: Andrea Merola
Venice –
Even the biggest success of his career, the Swede Roy Andersson remains modest. The 71-year-old has just won the Golden Lion, and yet he thinks of others first.
“It is a great honor to receive this award here at the Venice Film Festival in Italy» , he says with the trophy in hand. “A country that has produced many masterpieces of film history. They have very influenced me, without them I would be today not a director. “Not only the Italians in the gala hall applauding stirred.
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Roy Andersson has the Golden Lion won. Photo: Claudio Onorati
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The Venice Film Festival is one next to the festivals in Berlin and Cannes for the major in the industry. Photo: Felix Hörhager
Even the title of his winning film “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence” had promised something unusual. A pigeon that ponders its existence? That sounded philosophically inclined and at the same time – it was then, but without bird in the center. Instead, drive in the German co-production lost people through life. . Lonely, sad, very melancholic
And still celebrates “En på en gren duva tired och på funderade tillvaron” – so the original title – the laconic humor and the big screen. Andersson divided his film into 39 perfectly choreographed scenes, each filmed from a fixed perspective with a fixed camera setting. Painstakingly rehearsed to perfection, each sequence is an art in itself. Together they form a cinema fairy tales, the episodic combines art and everyday life.
The Swedish director Roy Andersson in Venice. Photo: Ettore Ferrari
Similarly, memorable, albeit with very different means, was the documentation, “The Look of Silence”. The film of the American Joshua Oppenheimer shows how the massacre of alleged communists after the military coup in the mid-1960s still traumatize the Indonesian society. “This is a masterpiece,” jury member Tim Roth said, visibly moved at the awards ceremony. “It is an extraordinary experience to see this film.” There not only gave the Grand Jury Prize, the second highest award of the oldest festivals in the world.
had these two grand prize winners to belongs favorites, they also reflect the focus of this year’s competition resist. In it, the directors had worked primarily at Gloomy and Dark, to crises and wars in human exceptional situations. What these overall very strong competition but also accounted for, was that many filmmakers found an often very memorable narrative form.
How about the Russian Andrei Konchalovsky. His “The Postman’s White Nights” was also an exciting experiment: The inhabitants of a village somewhere in Russia play itself, but the story also follows a certain dramaturgy. The result is a balancing act, in which the boundaries between documentary and fiction. Rightly the Silver Lion for Best Director
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With voltage and Fatih Akin’s drama “The Cut” was expected. But then disappointed the article about the fate of hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire apparently not only the critics – Akin was at the awards ceremony empty-handed. Nevertheless, the jury’s decision a success for the shot in Germany, which is establishing itself more and more as an important production partner for international works.
Not only the lion’s winner originated with financial support from Germany, also the special price the jury honors a German co-production: “Sivas” the born in Turkey, but has long been living in Berlin Kaan Müjdeci. His drama about a boy and his dog fight in a Turkish village was not just the only debut film of the competition. Müjdeci was 33 years and the youngest filmmaker in lions race. (AP)
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