Venice International Film Festival 2010
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The 67th Venice International Film Festival ( Italian 67th Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica ) took place from September 1st to 11th, 2010 . 4,251 films (including 2,395 feature films) from 102 countries applied for participation in the festival, which, along with the Berlin International Film Festival and the Cannes International Film Festival, is one of the three most important A festivals in the world. In the most important section, the competition (Venezia 67), 24 feature films competed for the Golden Lion , the main prize of the festival. This went to the US contribution Somewhere by Sofia Coppola .
The festival was opened with the American competition entry Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky , a psychological thriller which is set in the New York ballet milieu. This was in turn followed by the Hong Kong martial arts film Jingwufengyun - Chen Zhen by Andrew Lau and Machete by Robert Rodriguez, which was shown out of competition . The American film The Tempest by Julie Taymor was selected as the graduation film .
With the Hotel des Bains closed in 2010, a traditional element of the Venice Film Festival disappeared. Numerous filmmakers stayed here and interviews were held there. In addition, it had been the jury's meeting place in the past. The festival director Marco Müller also stated that it was difficult to fill the competition this year. Among other things, this was attributed to the increasing competition from the major festivals. Compared to the previous year, the organizers also had a budget of 12 million euros which was 700,000 euros lower.
As part of the film festival, a golden lion is regularly awarded for the life's work of a filmmaker. The winner was announced in advance of the festival: the Chinese-American director John Woo , who is one of the most important representatives of Hong Kong cinema.
The Italian actress Isabella Ragonese hosted the opening and closing ceremonies.
Official Sections
A total of 86 films were shown in the three sections of the film festival. 82 of them celebrated their world premiere.
competition
jury
This year's jury president was the American film director and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino .
He was supported by six other jury members:
- Guillermo Arriaga , Mexican screenwriter and film director (invited to the 2008 competition for On Burning Earth )
- Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė , Lithuanian actress
- Arnaud Desplechin , French film director (invited to the 2004 competition for Rois et reine )
- Danny Elfman , American film composer
- Luca Guadagnino , Italian film director
- Gabriele Salvatores , Italian film director and screenwriter (invitation to the competition 2000 for Denti )
Competitors for the Golden Lion
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The other jury members as well as the official program were presented on July 29, 2010. On August 8th, Jerzy Skolimowski's film Essential Killing was submitted for the competition.
24 productions from 17 countries (including a “surprise film” that was presented during the film festival) competed for the Golden Lion, the festival's main prize. As with the 2009 edition, most of the invited directors came from Europe (12), followed by their colleagues from North America (7), Asia (4) and South America (1). Films from Africa or Oceania were not invited.
US filmmakers were the most represented with six entries. Among them was Darren Aronofsky ( Black Swan ), who had already received the main prize in Venice for The Wrestler two years earlier . Oscar winner Sofia Coppola devoted herself to “the sad everyday life of the star cult” in Somewhere and focused on a famous actor (played by Stephen Dorff ) who receives a visit from his 11-year-old daughter ( Elle Fanning ). In her western Meek's Cutoff, the award-winning author and filmmaker Kelly Reichardt told the true story of an emigrant trek that got lost on the way to the US west coast in 1845. The award-winning artist and filmmaker Julian Schnabel and Miral again followed the path of a Palestinian orphan (played by Freida Pinto ), who later got to know the resistance of the Palestinian people as a teacher . The contributions from North America were supplemented by Vincent Gallos Promises Written in Water , Monte Hellmans Road to Nowhere and the literary film adaptation of Barney's Version by the Canadian director Richard J. Lewis.
Twelve of the 23 directors ( Ascanio Celestini , Coppola, Anthony Cordier, Alexei Fedorschenko, Gallo, Hellmann, Álex de la Iglesia , Pablo Larraín, Lewis, Reichardt, Athina Rachel Tsangari and Tsui Hark ) made their debut in the Venice competition, while Darren Aronofsky, Julian Schnabel and Carlo Mazzacurati competed for the main prize for the third time. With La passione, the Italian presented a comedy in which a less busy director (played by Silvio Orlando ) was forced to stage a passion play in a Tuscan mountain village in a few days . Mazzacurati's compatriot Mario Martone showed the costume film Noi Credevamo , which reported on the battle for Italian national unity . In addition to Ascanio Celestini ( La pecora nora ), Saverio Costanzo was also represented in the competition with the literary film adaptation La solitudine dei numeri primi . It was the film adaptation of Paolo Giordano's award-winning novel The Loneliness of Prime Numbers with Alba Rohrwacher and Luca Marinelli in the leading roles.
Three film productions from France were invited to the competition. In addition to Anthony Cordier's tragic relationship comedy Happy Few and François Ozone's tumultuous tabloid comedy Potiche , Abdellatif Kechiche presented his period film Vénus noire . After the Frenchman won the Silver Lion in 2007 for couscous with fish , his latest film was about the fate of Sarah Baartman (played by Yahima Torres ). The black African appeared in the 1810s as "Hottentot Venus" on British fairs. It aroused the interest of French natural scientists, to whom it served as a research object after a miserable, early death.
The only German-language entry in the competition was Drei by Tom Tykwer . After the German director presented his successful film Run Lola Run at the 1998 film festival and had worked increasingly in international cinema in recent years, he presented a relationship drama that was set in contemporary Berlin . The story told of a couple (played by Sophie Rois and Sebastian Schipper ) who fell in love with the same man ( Devid Striesow ).
Filmmakers Takashi Miike , Tsui Hark , Trần Anh Hùng and Wang Bing were represented from Asia . With Jūsan-nin no shikaku (international title: 13 Assassins ), the Japanese Takashi Miike created a remake of the samurai film of the same name from 1963. Tsui Hark presented a mystery flick with Di Renjie zhi Togntian diguo ( Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame ) to Di Renjie , an official from the Tang Dynasty. The Vietnamese Trần Anh Hùng, who won the main prize in Venice for Cyclo in 1995 , filmed the novel of the same name by Haruki Murakami with Noruwei no mori . Wang Bing's directorial work Le fossé ( The Ditch ) was presented on September 6th as a "surprise film " ( film sorpresa ). This kept the possibility open to present films whose completion was uncertain before the announcement of the program or in which one feared intervention by official authorities. Le fossé played in 1960 in the Chinese re-education camp Jiabiangou in the Gobi desert , where prisoners were sentenced to forced labor for trivialities as counter-revolutionaries.
The only South American entry in the competition was Pablo Larraín's Post Mortem , which was located in Chile during the military regime of Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s.
Feature films
24 feature films were shown in the competition, all of which were world premieres. Six of the films were produced in the United States and four films are from Italy.
* = Surprise film that was presented during the competition.
Award winners
- Golden Lion : Somewhere - Director: Sofia Coppola
- Silver Lion - Best Director: Álex de la Iglesia ( Balada triste de trompeta )
- Special Jury Prize: Jerzy Skolimowski ( Essential Killing )
- Coppa Volpi - Best Actor: Vincent Gallo ( Essential Killing )
- Coppa Volpi - Best Actress: Ariane Labed ( Attenberg )
- Marcello Mastroianni Prize : Mila Kunis ( Black Swan )
- Osella - Best technical performance: Michail Kritschman ( Owsjanki )
- Osella - Best Screenplay: Álex de la Iglesia ( Balada triste de trompeta )
- Special lion for his life's work: Monte Hellman
- FIPRESCI Prize : Ovsjanki - Director: Alexei Fedorschenko
Orizzonti
The Orizzonti (German: “Horizons”) section, which is dedicated to “new ways and possibilities” in global film and primarily aims to promote unconventional films, was expanded in 2010 to include short films. Instead, the previous short film series Corto Cortissimo was dropped .
The international jury was chaired by the Iranian artist Shirin Neshat , who had won the Silver Lion for her film Women Without Men the year before. Other jury members were:
- Raja Amari , Tunisian director
- Lav Diaz , Filipino director
- Alexander Horwath , Austrian film critic and director of the Austrian Film Museum
- Pietro Marcello , Italian documentary film director
Catherine Breillat's feature film La Belle Endormie was chosen as the opening film . The final film is the South Korean contribution Ok-hui-ui yeonghwa .
The main prize for the best feature film went to the Mexican entry Verano de Goliat , while The Forgotten Space (Netherlands, Austria) received the special prize of the Orizzonti jury. The Austrian contribution Coming Attractions won the main prize for the best short film . Also awarded was Tse (Israel; Best Medium-Length Film ), while Jean Gentil received an Honorable Mention .
Feature films
Short films
| Movie title | Director | Country of production |
|---|---|---|
| 21 ke (21 grams) | Xun Sun | People's Republic of China |
| 720 degrees | Ishtiaque Zico | Bangladesh |
| The agent | Vincent Gallo | United States |
| atom | Korpys / Löffler | Germany |
| Les Barbares | Jean Gabriel Périot | France |
| Brilianty (Diamonds) | Rustam Chamdamov | Russia |
| Casus Belli | Georgios Zois | Greece |
| Chi di (Red Earth) | Clara Law | Hong Kong, Australia |
| Cold Clay, Emptiness ... | SJ. Ramir | New Zealand |
| Coming attractions | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria |
| Diane Wellington | Arnaud des Pallières | France |
| Erään hyönteisen tuho (The Death of an Insect) | Hannes Vartiainen , Pekka Veikkolainen | Finland |
| The External World | David O'Reilly | Germany |
| The futurist | Emily Richardson | United Kingdom |
| Haru no shikumi (The Mechanism of Spring) | Atsushi Wada | Japan |
| House | Doug Aitken | United States |
| John's Gone | Josh Safdie , Benny Safdie | United States |
| The Leopard * | Isaac Julien | United Kingdom, Italy |
| Lif og daudi Henry Darger (The life and death of Henry Darger) | Bertrand Mandico | France, Iceland |
| La linea generale | Oleg Tcherny | France |
| A loft | Ken Jacobs | United States |
| Man in a room | Rafael Palacio Illingworth | USA, Mexico, Switzerland |
| MC McLean - Magic for beginners | Jesse McLean | United States |
| Nok Ka Mhin (Four Seasons) | Chaisiri Jiwarangsan | Thailand |
| Not si può nulla contro il vento | FLATFORM | Italy |
| O mundo è belo | Luiz Pretti | Brazil |
| Painéis de Sao Vicente de Fora, Visão Poética | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal |
| El Pozo | Guillermo Arriaga | Mexico |
| Shadow cuts | Martin Arnold | Austria |
| Slabyj Red Front (Weak Red Front) | Viktor Alimpiev | Russia |
| Stardust | Nicolas Provost | Belgium |
| Tse (Out) | Roee roses | Israel |
| Woman I | Nuntanat Duangtisarn | Thailand |
* = Film shown outside of the competition.
Documentaries
| Movie title | Director | Country of production |
|---|---|---|
| Un anno dopo - Progetto Memory Hunters * | Danilo Barozzi , Sebastiano Cantalupo , Marco Castellani , Fabio Ciotti , Antonio Iacobone , Stefano Ianni , Carlo Liberatore , Cosimo Gabriele Scarano , Antonio Moscaggiura , Alessandro Venuto , Antonella Deplano | Italy |
| Il capo | Yuri Ancarani | Italy |
| fading | Olivier Zabat | France |
| The Forgotten Space | Noël Burch , Allan Sekula | Netherlands, Austria |
| Future Archeology | Armin Linke , Francesco Mattuzzi | Italy, Germany |
| Guest | José Luis Guerin | Spain |
| k.364 a journey by train * | Douglas Gordon | United Kingdom, France |
| The Nine Muses | John Akomfrah | United Kingdom, Ghana |
| Pa Rubika Celu (On Rubik's Road) | Laila Pakalnina | Latvia |
| Per questi stretti morire (Cartografia di una passione) | Giuseppe Gaudino , Isabella Sandri | Italy |
| Qiao (Crust) | Wenhai Huang | China |
| Robinson in ruins | Patrick Keiller | United Kingdom |
| Xifang qu ci bu yuan (Reconstructing Faith) | Wenhai Huang | People's Republic of China |
| Zelal | Marianne Khoury , Mustapha Hasnaoui | Egypt, France, Morocco, United Arab Emirates |
* = Film shown outside of the competition.
Controcampo Italiano
The Controcampo Italiano festival section aims to showcase the latest developments in Italian cinema with its selection of films. The Italian jury was chaired by the actor Valerio Mastandrea , who was supported by the director Susanna Nicchiarelli and the film scholar Dario Edoardo Viganò . Three other films were shown as an event and retrospective, but they did not take part in the competition. The feature film I baci mai dati was chosen as the opening film .
The entry 20 sigarette received an award , while lead actor Vinicio Marchioni received an honorable mention .
| Movie title | Director | Film genre |
|---|---|---|
| 20 sigarette | Aureliano Amadei | motion pictures |
| Achille | Giorgia Farina | Short film |
| Bassa Marea | Roberto De Paolis | Short film |
| Come un soffio | Michela Cescon | Short film |
| Flaiano: il meglio è passato * | Giancarlo Rolandi , Steve Della Casa | documentary |
| Fughe e approdi * | Giovanna Taviani | documentary |
| I baci mai dati | Roberta Torre | motion pictures |
| Into Paradiso | Paola Randi | motion pictures |
| Linea Nigra | Anna Gigante | Short film |
| Il loro Natale * | Gaetano Di Vaio | motion pictures |
| Ma che storia | Gianfranco Pannone | documentary |
| Niente orchid | Simone Godano , Leonardo Godano | Short film |
| Il primo incarico | Giorgia Cecere | motion pictures |
| Se hai una montagna di neve, tienila all'ombra * | Elisabetta Sgarbi | documentary |
| Sposerò Nichi Vendola | Andrea Costantino | Short film |
| Tajabone | Salvatore Mereu | motion pictures |
| Tarda estate * | Marco De Angelis , Antonio Di Trapani | motion pictures |
| Ward 54 * | Monica Maggioni | motion pictures |
| A woman | Giada Colagrande | motion pictures |
Retrospective
The retrospective La situazione comica revisited 31 Italian comedies made between 1934 and 1988.
- Il domestico by Luigi Filippo D'Amico (1974)
- È arrivato il cavaliere! by Mario Monicelli and Stefano Vanzina (1950)
- Botta e risposta by Mario Soldati (1950)
- Il commissario Lo Gatto by Dino Risi (1987)
- Thursday ( Il giovedì ) by Dino Risi (1963)
- The double hero ( Fracchia la belva umana ) by Nero Parenti (1981)
- Three sinners ( Il giorno in pretura ) by Stefano Vanzina (1954)
- The fragrance of women ( Profumo di donna ) by Dino Risi (1974)
- Eccezzziunale ... veramente by Carlo Vanzina (1982)
- The Honorable Family ( L'onorata società ) by Riccardo Pazzaglia (1961)
- L'eroe sono io! by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (1951)
- Febbre da cavallo by Stefano Vanzina (1976)
- Gli allegri masnadieri by Marco Elter (1937)
- Guardie e ladri by Mario Monicelli and Stefano Vanzina (1951)
- The Cruel ( I crudeli ) by Sergio Corbucci (1967)
- Imputato alzatevi! by Mario Mattòli (1939)
- Io non speczo ... rompo by Bruno Corbucci (1971)
- The Country Boy ( Il ragazzo di campagna ) by Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia (1984)
- La Lepre e la Tartaruga by Alessandro Blasetti (episode from The Four Truths , 1962)
- La Manina die Fatma by Vittorio Caprioli (episode from I cuori infranti , 1963)
- Next please! ( Febbre da cavallo ) by Ugo Tognazzi (1976)
- Not ti pago! by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (1942)
- Le pillole di Ercole by Luciano Salce (1962)
- Lo scapolo by Antonio Pietrangeli (1955)
- Lo scatenato by Franco Indovina (1967)
- Beautiful widows are dangerous ( Five Golden Hours ) by Mario Zampi (1961)
- Schoolmates ( Compagni di scuola ) by Carlo Verdone (1988)
- Beach Whispers ( Casotto ) by Sergio Citti (1977)
- Tempo massimo by Mario Mattòli (1934)
- Tutta la città canta by Riccardo Freda (1945)
- Vacanze di Natale by Carlo Vanzina (1983)
Further awards
Other awards were presented at the Venice Film Festival.
The Premio Luigi De Laurentiis was awarded by a jury chaired by the German director Fatih Akin ( Special Jury Prize 2009 for Soul Kitchen ). The award honors the best debut film by a director ( Lion of the Future ), all sections could be considered. Akin and the Indian Nina Lath Gupta ( Managing Director of the Indian National Film Development Corporation ), the director Stanley Kwan and Samuel Maoz ( Golden Lion 2009) and the Italian actress Jasmine Trinca ( Marcello Mastroianni Prize 2009) awarded the Turkish prize Contribution by Cogunluk by Seren Yüce .
The Persol 3-D Award , named after a sponsor of the film festival, was given to a 3D film for the second time since 2009 . The Japanese film director and producer Takashi Shimizu , the American film critic Jim Hoberman ( The Village Voice ) and the Italian filmmaker David Zamagni became the artistic directors of the Venice Film Festival . Were awarded James Cameron Film Title - Avatar and How to Train Your Dragon by Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders .
Independently of the film festival, the Sindacato Nazionale Critici Cinematografici Italiani organized the International Critics' Week (SIC) and the Associazione Nazionale Autori Cinematografici (ANAC) together with the Associazione Autori e Produttori Indipendenti (API) two of their own film series.
Films out of competition
Outside of the competition categories, 29 feature films were shown, 26 of which were world premieres. In addition to Jingwufengyun - Chen Zhen , Machete and The Tempest , the American actor and director Ben Affleck presented his new feature film The Town . With A Letter to Elia presented Martin Scorsese a documentary about the American director Elia Kazan (1909-2003).
Web links
- Venice International Film Festival on labiennale.org (Italian, English)
- Press review of the Venice Film Festival 2010 ( memento from June 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) on film-zeit.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the number of participants on labiennale.org, accessed on September 1, 2010 ( Memento of the original from September 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Cf. Venezia 67 Awards ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, September 11, 2010 (accessed September 11, 2010)
- ↑ a b "Not in Venice - The legendary Hotel Des Bains is closed, the festival is reinventing itself." on zeit.de, accessed on September 1, 2010
- ↑ See Ostwald, Susanne: Delicacies for the lion . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 1, 2010, p. 53
- ↑ Announcement of the winner of the Golden Lion for Lebswerk, accessed on labiennale.org on September 1, 2010
- ↑ Cf. Isabella Ragonese to be the godmother of the 67th Venice Film Festival ( Memento of the original from August 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, July 23, 2010 (accessed September 2, 2010)
- ↑ See one more lion candidate at the Venice Film Festival . In: Der Standard , August 9, 2010, p. 24
- ↑ Cf. Althen, Michael: The emptiness of true sensation . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 4, 2010, No. 205, p. 33
- ↑ See Schulz-Ojala, Jan. Komödienfieber in Venice at tagesspiegel.de, September 5, 2010 (accessed on September 5, 2010)
- ↑ Cf. Althen, Michael: Hunger und Durst . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 7, 2010, No. 207, p. 31
- ↑ cf. Orizzonti Awards ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, September 11, 2010 (accessed September 11, 2010)
- ↑ cf. Official awards of the Controcampo Italiano section ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, September 9, 2010 (accessed September 11, 2010)
