May el-Toukhy's Woman Unknown won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival on Saturday. [1] Mathilde Arcel took Best Actress for the same film. [2] Lee Chang-dong's Possible Love took the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize. [1] This paper spent the week saying awards night was later. Saturday it arrived.
Reuters posted the Lion the same evening. [3] Deadline and Screen Daily's table, as Reuters listed it, filled the rest of the Sala Grande: Ilya Khrzhanovsky Best Director for DAU; Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor's NAZA for the Special Jury Prize; Stéphane Brizé's A Good Little Soldier for Best Screenplay; John Malkovich Best Actor for Wild Horse Nine; Malou Khebizi the Marcello Mastroianni Award for A Place To Heal; Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu the Lion of the Future for House of the Wind. [1][2]
Maggie Gyllenhaal chaired the jury. [2] A jury president's defense of the pick is not a box-office print. A Golden Lion is not a U.S. release date. Do not invent one.
Honorary Lions for George Clooney and Ellen Burstyn were already in the week's file. [2] Saturday's news is the competition Lion, not a second honorary night. Print prior honorary. Print Saturday's table.
El-Toukhy is the eighth woman to win the top prize in festival copy. [2] Woman Unknown was one of two films by women directors in competition. [2] An eighth is a count. Two women in competition is a count. Neither is a rewritten history of the Lido.
The paper's entertainment desk waited through Burstyn, Kore-eda, Bunker, and Gibney for this table. [1] The table is the product. A reader who stops at the Lion has el-Toukhy. A reader who stops at Best Actress has Arcel in the same picture. A reader who stops at the Grand Jury Prize has Lee. Print all three. Do not upgrade Possible Love to the Lion. Do not reprint NAZA as the top prize.
DAU's director prize is not a rehabilitation of the project's methods. NAZA's special is not a UN vote. Malkovich's Volpi Cup is not a lifetime award. Those distinctions belong in Saturday's table because the jury drew them. This desk will not flatten them.
Reuters's evening post is the X layer this edition will actually show. [3] It names Woman Unknown. It does not leak a U.S. booking. Deadline's longer wrap is the MSM layer: Lion, Actress, Grand Jury, director, special, screenplay, actor, Mastroianni, debut. [2] Quote the table. Leave Sunday's recaps to Sunday.
A politically charged lineup is still a lineup. Gaza in NAZA, labor in other titles, WWII in others — Deadline filed the weather around the prizes. [2] Weather is not a prize. Print the prizes. Leave a culture-war rewrite to the culture desk that owns one.
The Lido does not ship a movie. Cupertino does not award a Lion. Do not stitch this page to Duo. Do not stitch it to Kauai. Saturday's entertainment lead is a statue and a name.
Print the Lion. Print Arcel. Print Lee's silver. Leave a second statue to the edition that owns a second statue.
-- CAMILLE BEAUMONT, Los Angeles