At theVenice International Film Festival , a panel of diligence professionals make up one’s mind on how to dispense the prize to the movies in Official Competition , including the prestigious Golden Lion . This year ’s group of nine includes filmmaker from across the world , with French actor Isabelle Huppert serve well as Jury President . However , since I wasScreen Rant ’s sole spokesperson at this class ’s edition , the 81st , theseawards are mine to pass out .
Unlike Huppert & Co. , this panel of one is n’t specify to what was and was n’t an official choice . Any of the 28 movies ( and one arrant miniseries ) I go out in my clip there is bonny plot . I ’m also ditch the festival ’s categories for five more standard ones , plus one that ’s just for fun . That say , I will be assert the tradition of awarding each film only once – if my filling for Best Film also has the best lead carrying into action out of the bunch , baffling lot . The more prestigious trophy wins out , always .
In addition to the categories below , the Venice Film Festival also awards a Grand Jury Prize , indicating the secondly - best motion picture ; a Special Jury Prize , indicating the third - good movie ; and the Marcello Mastroianni Award , recognise an emerging actor .
Best Screenplay: Justin Kuritzkes, Queer
Venice Jury’s Winner: Murilo Hauser & Heitor Lorega, I’m Still Here
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Queer chronicles the life of American expat William Lee in 1950s Mexico City . His solitary existence changes with the arrival of Eugene Allerton , a young bookman , sparking a sound connection and change Lee ’s interaction within a minuscule American community .
Queer Review : Daniel Craig Does Career - Best Work In Luca Guadagnino ’s Deeply surrealistic LGBTQ Drama
Director Luca Guadagnino and author Justin Kuritzkes ’ first collaboration , Challengers , is already one of my best-loved film of the year so far , so it ’s only natural to await that their minute would also be quality work . But I ’m excited by how entirely dissimilar this is . There is once again insight into a complicated relationship dynamic , butQueeris much more concerned in the psychology and self - perception of its protagonist , expertly act by Daniel Craig . It excavate him subtly at first , then with more and more challenging abstraction , task us with putting the pieces together .
Queer chronicles the life of American expat William Lee in 1950s Mexico City. His solitary existence changes with the arrival of Eugene Allerton, a young student, sparking a profound connection and altering Lee’s interactions within a small American community.
I think it ’s natural to experienceQueerfirst as a optical achievement , given the way Guadagnino ’s imaging at last takes over . But the astuteness of what the flick has to offer is there at the script level , from how the overall journey is structure to the very specific , occasionally underplayed use of language . Of all the films I witness at Venice , it ’s the one I have been most compelled to mull over over , and it only blossoms with further musing .
Best Actress: Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Venice Jury’s Winner: Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Babygirl Review : Nicole Kidman ’s Electric Erotic Thriller go Far Beyond Fun
With a future dirty money taking a major candidate off the board , excellent oeuvre from Nicole Kidman mount to the top . In this erotic thriller ( or perhaps more of a sexual coming - of - mediate - eld tale ) from writer - conductor Halina Reijn , she plays a married chief executive officer who ’s secretly unsatisfied by her otherwise lovely married man , and lead off an affair with Harris Dickinson ’s naturally rife interne . I admireBabygirlfor its power to balance whole tone , andReijn ’s imagination does n’t land without Kidman there to hold everything together .
The protagonist is more than reduce , she ’s conflicted . The various societal roles she occupies – party boss , mother , wife , lover , mentor , U-boat – are n’t clearly defined hats that she can take on and off , but manner of behavior that are constantly at war within her . Babygirlwants to drop us into that cloudy headspace , which means Kidman must put that warfare on showing for us in her verbalism , physicality , and chanting . An exciting , complex performance , worthy of recognition .
Best Actor: Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Kill the Jockey
Venice Jury’s Winner: Vincent Lindon, The Quiet Son
drink down The Jockey Review : Argentine Sports Drama redeem A Confounding Journey Worth carry
Though I really like Luis Ortega’sKill the Jockey(El Jockey),the Argentinian film would n’t make my Venice Top 10 , so this is n’t a case of awarding the next in high spirits flick on my list . This is me singling out a truly suitable execution from the film ’s lead , Nahuel Pérez Biscayart . Like Kidman , his execution is very tricky ; the whole step of the whole project hinges on his ability to body forth the proper flavor . The difference is that this moving picture metamorphizes before our eyes , and for a long time , the titular jockey is the only pathfinder we have through that disorientation .
In myreview , I compared his facial expressions to Buster Keaton , and I stand by that . Early on , he is an excellent funny front that nonetheless seems to control a world of sadness . What he becomes , and the extent to which he physicalizes it , isthis film . Without what he accomplishes , the film ’s eventual meaning would never blend , and even if I have some complicated look about the oeuvre as a whole , Biscayart never puts a human foot wrong .
Best Director: Walter Salles, I’m Still Here
Venice Jury’s Winner: Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
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I ’m Still Here is set during the early 1970s military one-man rule in Brazil , focusing on the Paiva crime syndicate . As the regime intensifies , Rubens , Eunice , and their five children know in an open house by the beach in Rio . Their lives are upended when Rubens is take away for questioning and does not return .
My Best Director winner isalso my 2nd - favorite motion-picture show of the fete . I’m Still Here(Ainda Estou Aqui ) is a drama about the genuine story of Eunice and Rubens Paiva ’s fateful experience with the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in 1971 , centered primarily through Eunice ’s perspective . The couple have five children together , and the movie ’s event hinges on how completely we empathize the rhythm method of this family ’s life before the incite incident . The love between them , and the ease of that love , is feel very deeply , and what occur next becomes an candid wound that we can not but share .
There is a clearness to Salles ’ centering that give way him almost total control of our emotion as we watch . I’m Still Hereis defined by the patience with which the story unfolds , as well as the willingness to bound our position when necessary . The lead performance by Fernanda Torres is sinful , though , truly , everyone is great , including the nipper . A wonderfully moving picture .
Best Film: The Brutalist
Venice Jury’s Winner: The Room Next Door
The Brutalistchronicles the journeying of Hungarian - suffer Jewish designer , László Tóth , who emigrates to the United States of America in 1947 . Initially forced to drudge in poorness , he soon wins a contract that will change the course of the next 30 years of his life story .
The Brutalist Review : Super - Sized historic Drama Is A Colossal Triumph Worth Every second base Of Its Runtime
While all the flick list here are majuscule , The Brutalistwas a cleared standout for me . With a runtime of 3hr35 and a tarradiddle traverse 30 class , Brady Corbet ’s moving-picture show is big on theme , and it is truly a grand experience . The structures design by the agonist are monolithic , after all . But this pursuit of size does n’t derive at the expense of closeness with the characters . The union of the historic effect at work in the world and the tempest of feeling within each mortal is arguably the cinema ’s primary objective .
It ’s an achievement everyone involved can be majestic of . It ’s impeccably directed and execute , with Adrien Brody and Guy Pearce give potentially career - delineate turns . Cinematographer Lol Crawley and editor program Dávid Jancsó ’s efforts aggregate to createThe Brutalist ’s affect optical style , and I witness the grievance by Daniel Blumberg to be not only essential , but truly exciting . And , as a testament to its writing , it delivers not one , but two of my favorite endings so far this twelvemonth . A true cinematic knockout .
Biggest Surprise: Broken Rage
(Venice Doesn’t Give This Award, But I’m Sure The Jury Would’ve Agreed With Me)
Broken Rage Review : Japanese Action Comedy postulate Only 62 Minutes To make for The House Down
A fun one to close us out , worthy of the movie being recognized : Broken Ragewas a surprise from its first annunciation . The Japanese action mechanism comedy from acclaimed filmmaker Takeshi Kitano was a tardy , unexpected submission to the fete , and as such , there was no data about it to be find online ahead of time . All I bonk lead in was the director / champion and that it race just 62 minutes , so I was n’t certain what to expect .
I now have it away that there ’s no way I could ’ve expected what we got : a fun but familiar crime motion-picture show , follow by anAirplane!-style parody of everything we ’d just seen . The audience ( of about 1000 ) was on board from the start , but once the 2d half commence , the laughs just kept come . It ’s also cleverly put together for a picture so unabashedly zany , and I recognized thatBroken Ragewas earning laughs in multiple ways . I was certainly surprised to line up it cracking my Top 5 , ahead of many of the fete ’s more hype title .
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I’m Still Here is set during the early 1970s military dictatorship in Brazil, focusing on the Paiva family. As the regime intensifies, Rubens, Eunice, and their five children live in an open house by the beach in Rio. Their lives are upended when Rubens is taken for questioning and does not return.
The Brutalistchronicles the journey of Hungarian-born Jewish architect, László Tóth, who emigrates to the United States of America in 1947. Initially forced to toil in poverty, he soon wins a contract that will change the course of the next 30 years of his life.
