Ang Lee wins the Golden Lion

Thierry Jobin considers that "the real great films of this 64th Mostra are ... to be found beyond the grocers' book-keeping of official jury . ... Parallel prizes are indeed back in force, from the big favourite, 'La Graine et le Mulet', (Grain of Life), by the French Abdellatif Kéchiche, a social thriller based on couscous, to British Ken Loach's immigration drama 'It's a Free World', and outside the competition, 'Man from the Plains', the poignant documentary by American Jonathan Demme about Jimmy Carter and his pleas for peace in the Middle-East. ... The festival's truth, the excellent programme chosen by Marco Müller [artistic director of the festival] and his team, the importance of the Mostra as an indicator of current social violence are to be sought more in this engaged and responsible cinema, than in the choice of a jury that seems happy to have taken itself seriously."

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