'Nomadland', starring Frances McDormand, wins the Golden Lion in Venice

Frances McDormand and Chloé Zhao thank the Golden Lion in a video during the closing ceremony of the Venice Film Festival, with the director of 'marketing' of Disney Italy, Davide Romani, in the room.CLAUDIO ONORATI / EFE

The Venice Film

the Golden Lion for the best film

portrait in chiaroscuro of a community of precarious workers who travel the country in search of a new opportunity, despite the narrow margins left by the economic system.

Inspired by a non-fiction book by Jessica Bruder, the film tells of a new working class made up of temporary workers who, faced with the closure of mines and other industries, are forced to chain temporary jobs in the tertiary sector.

Its protagonist, played by Frances McDormand, is a former teacher who joins the community of so

called

nomads who live in their caravans and forge their own networks of solidarity, for lack of better ones.

The film is set in 2011 and describes the aftermath of the

but it also appears to herald those that are now looming.

• 'Nomadland': the new working class goes to paradise

The award, which appeared in all forecasts after receiving a standing ovation on the penultimate day of the festival, marks the consecration of director Chloé Zhao, 38, born in China and established in the United States since her adolescence.

After the success of his previous project,

about a

of

origin

who was forced to leave his profession after an accident,

returns to talk about characters forced to change their life course and question some of the American myths , like the one that ensures that you always manage to reinvent yourself in your territory.

Zhao does not contradict him, but shows that getting it is becoming more and more laborious.

The film, the strongest in the Venetian competition, leaves the festival turned into one of the autumn titles and catapulted for the Oscars.

The Grand Prize of the Jury went to

by Mexican Michel Franco, a brutal dystopia set in his country, which predicts an imminent social conflict of the first scale, with which the poor will be able to subdue the rich.

The film is intended as a critique of the violent struggle, but also as a warning of what could happen if nothing changes.

“I started writing it six years ago and had no idea that it would end up looking so much like reality, instead of a genre film.

I made the film so as not to get to the point that I portray in it ”, Franco said when collecting the award, when he recalled that his inspiration was movements such as Black Lives Matter or the yellow vests in France.

In the acting categories, the British Vanessa Kirby, known for the series

won the Volpi Cup for best actress for

where she plays a woman who loses her baby in a home birth, while the best actor was Pierfrancesco Favino for

story inspired by the murder of director Claudio Noce's father in the 1970s.

The award for best director went to the Japanese Kiyoshi Kurosawa for

period film set during World War II that investigates human experiments carried out in the occupied region of Manchuria.

Meanwhile, the award for best screenplay went to

by Chaitanya Tamhane and produced by Alfonso Cuarón, which tells the story of a young traditional musician who fails to succeed in business.

It was one of the most interesting titles of an edition marked by the health crisis, which has elapsed between extreme security measures and which ends up becoming, due to its good development, a model to be followed by the rest of the festivals.

This is how the record of this 77th Venice Film Festival has been

- Golden Lion:

by Chloé Zhao.

- Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize:

by Michel Franco.

- Best direction: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, for

- Special Jury Prize:

by Andréi Konchalovsky.

- Best Screenplay Award: Chaitanya Tamhane, for

- Volpi Cup for best actress: Vanessa Kirby, for

- Volpi Cup for best actor: Pierfrancesco Favino, for

.

- Marcello Mastroianni Award for the best emerging performer: Rouhollah Zamani, for