Joker wins Venice Film Festival Grand Prize (Topic)

Director Todd Phillips, received the main award of the Venice Film Festival - Golden Lion for the movie "Joker". This is reported by The Hollywood Reporter. Accepting the award, the director thanked the jury and said that "without Joaquin Phoenix there would be no movie.

" Joaquin is the most ferocious, smartest and most open lion I know. Thank you for entrusting me his insane talent ", - he stressed. It is noteworthy that Phoenix himself did not receive an acting award for his role. They went to Luca Marinelli and Ariana Ascarid.

The disgraced director Roman Polanski was declared the winner of the Silver Lion, whose movie, entitled "The Officer and the Spy", was presented in the competition program. He was also awarded a FIPRESCI award and received the highest rating from Italian movie critics. Many Western media criticized the organizers for their attention to the new work of Polanski, who was accused of seducing a minor in his homeland.

The head of the jury of the Venice Festival, Lucrezia Martel, refused to attend the ceremony. "I represent many women who face the same problems in Argentina. And I don't want to get up and clap. But I think it's right that Polanski's movie is here at this festival, because it is a dialogue that we will not give up." , she said.

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Author: Jake Pinkman