The 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival ended with the Golden Lion for Audrey Diwan’s Event. But Netflix takes the lead in the rest of the charts.
Thunderclap at the Venice Film Festival 2021. Three years after the coronation of Roma d’Alfonso Cuarón, Netflix manages to impose no less than three films on the prize list of the Italian festival. The streaming giant intends to compete with feature films that are released in theaters with its in-house productions. And the strategy is paying off.
What strategy exactly? That of bringing in the biggest names in cinema. Paolo Sorrentino leaves with the Silver Lion for the Grand Jury Prize for The Hand of God, which Sorrentino describes as his most personal film. He returns to the Naples of his childhood and tells how the arrival of Diego Maradona upset the fate of the young hero.
The film is also rewarded with two prizes since the young Filippo Scotti won the Marcello Mastroianni prize for Best Hope. The Silver Lion for Best Director goes to Jane Campion for The Power of the Dog. The New Zealand director signs with this film a western that promises to be brutal with Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst.
Finally, for her debut behind the camera, Maggie Gyllenhaal won the Best Screenplay Award for The Lost Daughter. In this adaptation of a book by Elena Ferrante, she stars Olivia Colman and Dakota Johnson in a drama that turns into obsession. These three films will be uploaded in December on Netflix.
