Chloe Zhao’s 'Nomadland,' a road trip drama starring Frances McDormand, won the Golden Lion for best film Saturday at the Venice Film Festival.
almost didn’t make it after she couldn’t get on her flight because of coronavirus border restrictions. In the end, she arrived to collect her Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award and to see her out-of-competition film “Love After Love” make its world premiere.
Movie lovers applauded Venice’s effort and the symbolic significance of the world’s oldest film festival charting the path forward. “It’s a moment of rebirth for everyone, for the whole world,” said Emma Dante, the Italian director of the in-competition film “The Macaluso Sisters.” “This festival is really an important moment of encounter, of beginning to dream again and be together again, even with the norms and following all the safety protocols.”Film writer Emma Jones said aside from “a few teething problems” with the online reservation system, the festival went off better than she expected.
Instead, she said, Venice focused on the integrity of the films and the diversity of the countries represented. “We were lucky to receive a lot of submissions from all over the world, and apart from a few missing titles from the Hollywood major film studios, most of the countries are represented in Venice and the quality of the lineup is really very high,” said festival director Barbera.
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