'Poor Things,' a collaboration between director Yorgos Lanthimos and actor Emma Stone, has won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Premiering at Venice and Telluride, Yorgos Lanthimos’ ‘Poor Things’ and Pablo Larraín’s ‘El Conde’ find their filmmakers revisiting old terrain with rewarding results.Other top winners on the Lido were two films shaming Europe for its migration policies., won the award for best director while Garrone’s star, Seydou Sarr, won the award for best young actor.
Agnieszka Holland’s “Green Border,” about Europe’s other migration crisis on the Polish-Belarus border, won the special jury prize. “People are still hiding in forests, deprived of their dignity, of their human rights, of their safety, and some of them will lose their lives here in Europe,” Holland told the audience. “Not because we don’t have the resources to help them but because we don’t want to.”
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