French director Audrey Diwan, 41, received the Golden Lion in Venice on Saturday for “The Event”, a film about a young woman who clandestinely aborts, two months after the coronation of another Frenchwoman, Julia Ducournau in Cannes for “Titane”.
“Unfortunately when you work on abortion you are always in the news,” said Audrey Diwan, who succeeds Chinese-American Chloe Zhao, who was crowned last year for “Nomadland”, receiving her award.
“I made this film with anger and desire, I made it with my stomach, with my guts with my heart,” she added. “I wanted it to be an experience”, a “journey in the skin of this young woman”.
This award was awarded to him unanimously by the jury chaired by South Korean director Bong Joon-Ho (“Parasite”).
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, interpreted by the Franco-Romanian Anamaria Vartolomei, a discovery.
“The Event” is the second film by Audrey Diwan, who filmed a young couple struggling with drug addiction in “But You’re Mad” (2019).
Journalist and novelist who wrote for television, she co-wrote the screenplay for several French films including “Bac Nord”, a film on police violence currently on French screens or “La French” by Cédric Jimenez, then moved on to the realization.
Among the other films awarded at this 78th Venice Film Festival, the Grand Prize went to the Italian Paolo Sorrentino for a film about his childhood in Naples during the time of footballer Diego Maradona, “The Hand of God”.
This film is produced and distributed by Netflix, and therefore should not be released in theaters in France, like the prize for best director, awarded to “The Power of the Dog” by New Zealander Jane Campion.
As for the performers, the Spanish star Penélope Cruz was rewarded for his role in “Madres Paralelas” by Pedro Almodovar and the Filipino John Arcilla for his role as a journalist in search of truth in “On the Job 2: The Missing 8”.
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