The final award ceremony scheduled for tomorrow evening is approaching and the jury, chaired by Bong Joon-ho, is already gathered in a secret place to decide the winners of all the prizes in the competition, from the Golden Lion to the Fox Cups. Among the favorites at the TotoLeone, at the moment, there would seem to be Sorrentino, Campion, Schrader and Almodovar.
Between bets and predictions on the film that will take home the main prize, new out-of-competition screenings filled the day today: from “Lovely Boy”, directed by Francesco Lettieri, to the most anticipated “The Last Duel” by Ridley Scott with Matt Damon , Adam Driver, Jodie Comer and Ben Affleck. The documentary on Ennio Morricone and the one «DEANDRÉ # DEANDRÉ – Story of an employee», which retraces the concert in which Cristiano De André brought his father’s concept album to the stage, also carve out their own space.
In the afternoon, also the delivery of some collateral prizes. Gabriele Mainetti’s “Freaks Out” won the Soundtrack Stars Award 2021, for the best soundtrack among the films of the Competition. «The Award for the best soundtrack among the films in competition – moiva the jury – goes to Freaks out, a film of which Gabriele Mainetti is the director and screenwriter in which, once again, he curates the music together with Michele Braga. And with Braga Mainetti he makes a soundtrack protagonist that also reinterprets the classics: the interpretation of the exalted Nazi Franz transforms even Radiohead’s Creep on the piano in the style of a Rachmaninov. And Bella ciao meets avant-garde music and research just like the story of a film that crosses genres combines history and fantasy, the past and the future ».
Special mention to Ana Lily Amirpour’s film «Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon» in which «between dubstep, metal and Italian techno dance the heart of the French quarter of New Orleans beats fast thanks to the hypnotic, omnipresent soundtrack signed by Daniele Luppi. Where a version of Bruno Martino’s Odioestate stand out, a touch of class that leaves its mark and passages by Guglielmo Bottin, master of electronic reinterpretation of the soundtracks of Italian horror cinema ».
The Award Jury, made up of Laura Delli Colli – President, representing the Sngci – and several journalists, today awarded Ornella Vanoni, who was present in Venice with the film by Elisa Fuksas «Senza fine “.
The Golden Film Award was awarded to Luca Massa, operator of Michelangelo Frammartino in the competing film “Il Buco”. The extraordinary footage of the speleologist operator recounts the feat of the Turin Piedmontese Speleological Group, which in 1961 discovered the abyss of the Bifurto, one of the deepest caves in the world.
The Green Drop Award 2021 went to “Il Buco” again, for “the rigor with which the film describes the grandiose beauty of nature and for the ability to poetically convey the sense of time”.