Lebanon, Colin Firth take top Venice honours
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Lebanon, directed by Samuel Maoz and set largely inside a tank stranded inside enemy territory on the first day of the Lebanon War in June 1982, has won the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for Best Film.
Maoz, who based the film on his own experiences, dedicated the award to “people all over the word who come back form the war safe and sound, they work, get married, have children but inside remain stuck in their souls.”
The Coppa Volpi for Best Actor went to Colin Firth for his performance of a gay college professor in fashion designer Tom Ford’s well-received directorial debut The Single Man. Firth spoke in Italian while accepting the award, saying it was “possibly the greatest honor of my life”.
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Maoz, who based the film on his own experiences, dedicated the award to “people all over the word who come back form the war safe and sound, they work, get married, have children but inside remain stuck in their souls.”
The Coppa Volpi for Best Actor went to Colin Firth for his performance of a gay college professor in fashion designer Tom Ford’s well-received directorial debut The Single Man. Firth spoke in Italian while accepting the award, saying it was “possibly the greatest honor of my life”.
(more @ link)
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