The Event
created the event, at the end of a closing ceremony, the finale of which can boast of tricolor reflections.
French director Audrey Diwan, 41, received the Golden Lion in Venice on Saturday for
L'Événement
, a raw, intimate and feminist film about a young woman who clandestinely aborts.
The film, adapted from the eponymous autobiographical story by novelist Annie Ernaux, takes place in France in the 1960s, before abortion was legalized.
It shows the journey of a young student who becomes pregnant, played by the Franco-Romanian Anamaria Vartolomei.
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Spanish star Penélope Cruz also won the award for best female performance on Saturday night in Venice for her role in
Madres Paralelas
, her new collaboration with compatriot Pedro Almodovar. The director had already allowed her to be rewarded in 2007 by the interpretation price at Cannes for
Volver. "Thank you Pedro, you created a magic, I adore you"
, reacted Penélope Cruz by receiving her prize.
Film which opened the 78th edition of the Mostra,
Madres Paralelas
is built on the crossed path of two women who give birth on the same day in the same maternity hospital, and Penélope Cruz plays a forty-year-old photographer who becomes pregnant with an archaeologist and married friend, who promised to help him find the burial place of his great-grandfather, who disappeared at the start of the Spanish Civil War.
As for the best male role, it was the Filipino actor John Arcilla who won the male interpretation prize at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. A star in his country, the 55-year-old actor was awarded for his role as a journalist confronted with fake news and corruption in
On the Job: The Missing 8
, a three-and-a-half-hour film by Erik Matti.
“Mille grazie, mille grazie
,” he responded in Italian.
I am the happiest actor in the world tonight, because I know that we come from different countries, different cultures, but tonight we all understand each other thanks to the cinema, ”
he added.