Tema destacado del Lunes, 10. Septiembre 2007

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Ang Lee wins the Golden Lion

The 64th Venice Film Festival came to an end last weekend. Winner of the Golden Lion was Taiwanese film director Ang Lee with his wartime spy thriller "Se, jie" (Lust, Caution). The newspapers criticise the festival and express their concern about its future in the face of toughening competition.

Die Presse - Austria

Christoph Huber welcomes the jury's decision to award Ang Lee's new film "Se, jie" (Lust, Caution) the top prize. "This film whose plot moves back and forth between the US and Asia brings to life the melodrama of Shanghai's war years that has played such an important role in Chinese cinema. In 'Lust, Caution' (in the Chinese original Se, jie) the director acts as a translator between East and West, elegantly combining the themes and forms of the cinematic traditions of two different continents in a detailed crime study... The meeting of these two cinematographies is reflected in the two halves into which Lee divides his two-and-a-half-hour long film. It's the way the motifs of the first half are reflected and varied in the second that lends the tragedy its power. 'Lust, Caution' was the ideal winner given that the director of the Venice festival, Marco Müller, has declared that the most important contemporary cinema comes from the USA and Asia. However, it was also the exception in a flawed competition: the one film that all could agree on without compromising artistic standards." (10/09/2007)

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La Stampa - Italia

Simonetta Robiony, sent to Venice by the daily, looks back on the festival's prize winners and notes that over the past few years, only one European film-maker, Mike Leigh, has won the Golden Lion. "Thus the Taiwanese director Ang Lee, by winning his second Golden Lion at the Mostra, has triggered a polemic. Marco Müller, the festival's director, is a big connoisseur of China. He appreciates its culture, likes its films and speaks its language. But three Golden Lions in four years have been awarded to Asian films. Is this not a bit much? Will Müller not be accused of influencing the jury? ... This year's verdict is very contrasted, with a majority vote that was not unanimous. Each member of the jury had a favourite, but all agreed that Ang Lee's film is a great and beautiful film." (09/09/2007)

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Le Temps - Suiza

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." (10/09/2007)

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Postimees - Estonia

"Sügisball" (Autumn Ball), a film by Estonian director Veiko Ounpuu, has won the Orizzonti Prize at the International Film Festival in Venice. The prize money is 20,000 euros. The newspaper is delighted: "The Estonian explosion - this is how the unexpected and breathtaking rise of Estonia on the international film scene is being described. We are drawing closer and closer to the centre of the world's attention. A country with only 1.3 million inhabitants which rarely produces more than six films a year was present this year in Cannes (with "Magnus"), Karlsbad ("Class") and Venice ("Autumn Ball")... The striking thing is that the prizes were won by debut films from directors of the younger generation. What's more, Kadri Kousaar and Veiko Ounpuu are self-taught." (10/09/2007)

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Gazeta Wyborcza - Polonia

Tadeusz Sobolewski points out that there were many star-studded English-language films on the programme in Venice that really had no need of festival support. "The commercialisation of the competition was a strategic move by festival director [Marco Müller] now that the future of the festival in Venice is uncertain because of the competition coming from Rome. The top prize in the Rome competition would provide enough funding for a new film and that's a great temptation for producers and directors. On top of that there's the new festival in Turin, organised by independent director and producer Nanni Moretti. A war between the festivals is raging in Italy. [Festival boss] Müller needed the Hollywood stars on board to satisfy the appetite of his sponsor's and attract media interest." (10/09/2007)

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