Venice Winners: Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Room Next Door’ Wins The Golden Lion; Also Wins For Nicole Kidman, Brady Corbet, ‘I’m Still Here’ & More
deadline.comPedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door has won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion main prize. Jury president Isabelle Huppert and her jury were on hand to bestow the Golden Lion along with the other main prizes. Scroll down to see the list of laureates. Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore star in Almodóvar’s euthanasia drama, which marked the acclaimed filmmaker’s English-language debut.
The movie follows Ingrid (Moore) and Martha (Swinton) who were close friends in their youth, when they worked together at the same magazine.
After years of being out of touch, they meet again in an extreme and bittersweet situation. Check out our review here. Among other prize-winners on the night were Vermiglio by Maura Delpero, Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, and Nicole Kidman for Babygirl whose filmmaker Halina Reijn accepted the award on behalf of Kidman who she explained could not be there in person due to the passing of her mother in recent days.
Kidman said in a statement: “I’m in shock and I have to go to my family, but this award is for her. She shaped me, she guided me and she made me.” The evening began on a political note with two Horizzonti-winning filmmakers expressing support for Palestine and condemning “Israel’s genocide” to applause from the audience.
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