Venice tells the story of the pigeon who captured a lion – Le Figaro

The 71st Venice Film Festival awarded the Golden Lion at the Swedish director Roy Andersson for “A Pigeon Sat on a Branch, Reflecting on Existence.” A stylized view of human smallness, a dismal irony.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Mexican was expected, the Swedish director Roy Andersson won the Golden Lion of the 71st Venice Film Festival. The rumor gave to favorite Birdman, where Michael Keaton interprets a superhero film in limbo, trying a new career in the theater. The jury, chaired by Alexandre Desplat has chosen a completely different volatile, A pigeon sat on a branch, Reflecting on life . Leaving the big show, he favors the plastic work of a goldsmith derision. His film completes a trilogy already consisting of Songs from the Second Floor and You, the Living . It begins in a natural history museum in the middle of stuffed animals: Roy Andersson is reexamining zoologist painter on various specimens of the human species, in about thirty small and static scenes ironic, meticulously crafted. The subtle work on light, frame, silence and music, is very remarkable, but the characters miniaturized devitalized are only the instruments of a glacial burlesque. Roy Andersson has a sense of the absurd led to a sketch of a remote dry precision. The jury, in the tradition of the mostra always attentive to artistic research, devoted an undeniably successful style, but you can find off-putting.

Andrei Konchalovsky, silver lion for White Nights by a factor , portrays him as the everyday absurdity, loneliness and disgrace, but in a register more naturalistic. He paints with a melancholy humor and gentle empathy residents of an impoverished village in northern Russia. A few missed in natural beauty, and just steps from an aerospace center souls temple of military technology.

The Grand Jury Prize returns to documentary competition, The Look of Silence . Danish director Joshua Oppenheimer continues the hard work he had undertaken in The Act of Killing: after exploring the side of the executioners massacres of communists and sympathizers in 1965 in Indonesia, he follows this time the family of a . murdered and questioned the silence of victims man

In addition to these veterans, the record makes room for the younger generation with two awards: Special Jury Prize at Sivas Turk Müdjeci Kaan, whose hero is a 11 year old boy who raises a fighting dog; Marcello Mastroianni and price of the revelation to Paul Romain, for her role as teenager seeking his way in the film by Alix Delaporte, The last hammer . This allows the French cinema to be among the winners, with a simple mention. However, he triumphs in which award-winning film by Laurent Cantet Return to Ithaca “Venice Days authori” section.

Italy is graced by a double price interpretation actors Film Saverio Costanzo Hungry Hearts , strange family thriller set in New York. Adam Driver and Alba Rohrwacher are a very loving couple until the birth of their baby, her mother wants to protect from the outside world at the risk of deleting it. This selection of the jury was the most contested by the press during the official announcement.

We would have liked to see the dramatic interpretation devoted Elio Germano Leopardi, Il giovane favoloso Mario Martone. But in any case, the renewed vitality of Italian cinema in the official selection as in the parallel sections is good news in this 71st Mostra. Some strength and personality in an edition also without much relief, which often ran out of steam.