Spanish director’s first English-language movie starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore tackles euthanasia
Almodóvar is a darling of the festival circuit and was awarded a lifetime achievement award at Venice in 2019 for his bold, irreverent and often funny Spanish-language features.Now 74, he has decided to try his hand at English, telling reporters that it was like science fiction for him.
“It’s a film in favour of euthanasia,” he said, criticising countries such as the US, where so-called “mercy killing” is illegal, unlike his native Spain.While The Room Next Door had been widely tipped to win, the runner-up Silver Lion award was a surprise, going to Italian director Maura Delpero for her slow-paced drama set in the Italian Alps during the second world war – Vermiglio.
France’s Vincent Lindon was named best actor for The Quiet Son, a topical, French-language drama about a family torn apart by extreme-right radicalism. The festival marks the start of the awards season and regularly throws up big favourites for the Oscars, with eight of the past 12 best director awards at the Oscars going to films that debuted at Venice.
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