Rain of female rewards at the Venice Film Festival. Audrey Diwan, 41, received the Golden Lion on Saturday for “The Event”, a film about a young woman who aborts clandestinely. This award was awarded to him unanimously by the jury.
« Unfortunately, when you work on abortion, you are always in the news “, Declared the French, who succeeds Chloé Zhao, crowned last year for” Nomadland “.
The film, adapted from the eponymous autobiographical account of novelist Annie Ernaux, takes place in France in the 1960s, before the legalization of abortion. It shows the journey of a young student who becomes pregnant, played by the Franco-Romanian Anamaria Vartolomei. Audrey Diwan has co-written the screenplay for several French films including “Bac Nord”, or “La French”.
The tribute of Penélope Cruz
The film “madres paralelas” opened the mostra of Venice and crowned Penélope Cruz best actress. The scenario crosses the story of two mothers who gave birth on the same day in the same maternity hospital. On stage, the actress paid a vibrant tribute to her “two parallel mothers”: her mother and her stepmother, Pilar Bardem, who died two months ago.
For Maggie Gyllenhaal the first was the right one. With her film “The lost Daughter”, an adaptation of a novel by Elena Ferrante, she is crowned best director. The screenplay depicts the portrait of a woman through a reflection on the difficulty of being a mother.
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