With several much talked about American films contending including Denis Villeneuve’s ARRIVAL, Tom Ford's NOCTURNAL ANIMALS, Derek Cianfrance’s LIGHT BETWEEN THE OCEANS (together with UK & India) and Damien Chazelle’s LA LA LAND in competition at the 73rd Venice Film Festival, it was Lav Diaz's Filipino drama ANG BABAENG HUMAYO (The Woman Who Left) that nabbed the Gold Lion for best film this year. Clocking almost four hours in length, the black-and-white film is inspired by Leo Tolstoy's 1872 short story, and follows a wrongly convicted schoolteacher's journey after prison as she plots retribution against the ex-boyfriend who framed her.
Holding his Lion aloft, Diaz thanked the jury headed by Sam Mendes, saying “This is for my country, for the Filipino people; for our struggle and the struggle of humanity.” At fifty seven, the man behind MELANCHOLIA (2008) and CENTURY OF BIRTHING (2011) has been adored at the film festivals circuit, where earlier in February he has also brought home the Silver Bear Alfred Bauer Prize for the eight-hour historical epic, HELE SA HIWAGANG HAPIS (A Lullaby to The Sorrowful Mystery) at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.
Tom Ford's revenge story within a story starring Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal bagged the Grand Jury Prize. The Silver Lion for Best Director was shared between Mexico's Amat Escalante for THE UNTAMED and Russia's Andrei Konchalovsky for Holocaust drama PARADISE.
Emma Stone received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress award for her performance in LA LA LAND, while Best Actor went to Argentina's Oscar Martinez for his portrayal of a Nobel Prize-winning author who returns to his village for the first time in 40 years in the comedy THE DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN. Natalie Portman-starring JACKIE, a study of Jackie Kennedy won Best Screenplay.
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