Ilya Khrzhanovsky took Best Director, a Silver Lion, for DAU on Saturday. [1] This paper printed Woman Unknown as the Golden Lion the same night. A director prize is not the picture prize. Print DAU's silver. Do not upgrade it.

Deadline filed DAU in the same table as Possible Love and NAZA. [2] A director Silver Lion is not a rewritten history of the project's methods. Methods are not a prize. Print the prize. Leave a methods inquiry to the edition that owns one.

Saturday awards DAU once. A Germany-France-Sweden credit is not a box-office print. Print Khrzhanovsky. Leave a second director night uninvented.

Saturday is not a second Lion.
Woman Unknown already owns the Lion.
DAU's silver remains silver.
DAU's production methods have shadowed its reception for years, and prizes don't settle ethics. The Silver Lion honors the direction on screen. Everything around it stays contested.

Silver honors the frame, not the set; juries judge screens. Saturday's screen won. The set stays in dispute.

Contested sets stay contested; Saturday's Silver Lion is the frame. The Golden already went elsewhere. DAU's methods stay in the file.

Venice split the metal on Saturday night. Khrzhanovsky's Silver Lion for DAU sits beside a Golden already given to Woman Unknown. Direction is the citation, not a methods verdict. The Lido table stops at that distinction and does not reopen the set.
Woman Unknown already holds the Golden. Direction is the citation. The Lido table does not reopen the set.

Woman Unknown already holds the Golden. Direction is the citation. Saturday's Lido table does not reopen the set.

-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles