VENICE, Sept 10 — The Golden Lion in Venice was awarded Saturday to a hilarious and shockingly explicit reworking of Frankenstein, Poor Things, starring Emma Stone as a sex-mad...
Chastain earlier said that actors had been silenced for too long about “workplace abuse” and “unfair contracts”.starring Michael Fassbender and has been closely associated with Netflix, triggered controversy by saying he understood “both sides”.
“While we’re sitting here tonight, the situation is still going on,” said its Polish director Agnieszka Holland, accepting the award. “People are still hiding in forests, deprived of their dignity, from their human rights... Some of them will lose their lives here in Europe not because we don’t have the resources to help but because we don’t want to.”, which reimagined Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet as a vampire, won best screenplay for writer-director Pablo Larrain.The strong line-up helped distract from the controversy around the inclusion of Roman Polanski in the out-of-competition section.
As a convicted sex offender, the 90-year-old director was already struggling to find distribution in the US and other countries for his slapstick comedyThe response from Venice will not have helped: It currently holds a resounding zero per cent on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, variously described as a “laughless debacle” and “soul-throttlingly crap” by critics.
Another director effectively blacklisted in the US, Woody Allen, had a better time with his 50th film ,
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