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Gay movie Desde Allá wins top prize in Venice
Venezuelan director Lorenzo Vigas’ powerful debut feature movie Desde Allá has won the Venince Film Festival’s top Golden Lion prize.
The drama set in Caracase, also known as From Afar, tells the story of a 50-year-old rich gay man who gets sexually involved with a 17-year-old leader from one of the city’s gangs.
Quietly but powerfully, the movie maps the currents of sex, money and violence beneath the surface of Venezuelan society in 93 minutes.
‘I want to dedicate this prize to my amazing country, Venezuela,’ Vigas said to an applauding audience. ‘I know we have a few problems, but if we talk about them we will overcome them.’
Venezuela is going through a serious economic crisis that resulted in months of street protests last year over the shortage of many goods.
Vigas, previously with only one short movie to his name, has made history by getting the first Venezuelan movie into the world’s oldest film festival and then winning its top prize.
‘Rarely taking the path of cheap exposition where convincing character psychology will do, this smart, unsensationalized examination of the slow-blossoming relationship between a middle-aged loner and a young street tough trusts auds to make the necessary connections in a narrative that merges its characters’ respective father complexes to moving, equivocal effect,’ reviewed Variety.
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The Danish Girl, featuring Eddie Redmayne as pioneer transgender artist Lili Elbe, left Venice empty-handed, as the jury chaired by Alfonso Cuarón gave the best actor award to Fabrice Luchini, who played a judge in Christian Vincent’s L’Hermine, or Courted.
Winners of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival:
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Derek Yiu
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