Cate Blanchett and Collin Farrell, winners in Venice: summary, closing and prizes of the Mostra

Cate Blanchett This Saturday she won the Volpi Cup for best actress at the 79th Venice Film Festival for her role in “TÁR”, directed by Todd Field, the second time she has received this recognition after “I’m not there” (2007). The Australian plays a fictional American conductor, married to a German. Her dream is to succeed in Berlin, which she achieves, but she is accused of abuse.

Penelope Cruz passes the baton as winner of the Volpi Cup to Cate Blanchett, brand new winner of this 79th edition of the contest in which they have shone from Brendan Fraser to Anne of Arms with his Marilyn Monroe in Blonde. Not to mention how entertaining they have had us Florence Pugh, Olivia Wilde, Harry Styles y Chris Pine with their spit, real or virtual. Let’s not forget the neckline at the back of Timothée Chalamet on the first weekend of the festival, nor the Louis Vuitton, of the aforementioned Ana de Armas or Penélope Cruz and her classic Chanel dresses.

“It is an honor to receive this award. The wonderful thing about this festival is that it once again invites the public to the theaters. And I want to say again to the public that has welcomed us and the film: thank you very much”, said Cate when picking up his Volpi Cup.

The golden lion was for American production All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, by Laura Poitras, a documentary that follows the life of the artist Nan Goldin, in the fight against the Sackler pharmaceutical dynasty, responsible for 400,000 deaths in the United States due to an opioid epidemic. Poitras has already won an Oscar for another documentary, Citizenfour, in 2014.

Another woman wins the Mostra’s most important prize. In 2020 the Golden Lion was won by Chloé Zhao for Nomadland (the president of the Jury was Cate Blanchett, who has now won as best actress) and last year, who was now a member of the Jury, the French Audrey Diwan, for The event.

Julianne Moore She held the presidency of the Jury in this edition, being the third woman to do so in the last four years, after Lucrecia Martel (2019) and Blanchett (2020).

British director Martin McDonagh received the Volpi Cup for Colin Farrell, best actor, who was not present at the ceremony in the Sala Grande del Palazzo del Cinema to receive his Volpi Cup, and connected from the kitchen of his home in Los Angeles. In the spirits of the island (The Banshees of Inisherin) is Pádraic, one of two friends living peacefully in a small seaside town in Ireland around 1923, when Colm (Brendan Gleeson) tells him he doesn’t want him to talk to him.

Another important award has gone to the director Alice Diop, who was making her debut in fiction. The French documentary filmmaker is the winner of the second most important prize, the Grand Jury Prize, with a true story. Follows the trial of a Senegalese mother who abandoned her 15-month-old baby on a beach, knowing that the high tide would take her away and kill her.

The other doubly awarded film was Bones and All: for the best director award, which Mariano Cohn handed over to the Italian Luca Guadagnino for the film he shot in the United States, he added the Marcello Mastroianni Award to a new performer, which went to the Canadian Taylor Russell, co-star of this production that mixes drama and horror with Timothée Chalamet.

Winners of the 8 official awards:

Golden Lion for Best Film: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, by Laura Poitras

Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize: Saint Omer, by Alice Diop

Mina Khosravani and Reza Heydari, with the award to Jafar Panahi, imprisoned in Iran. AP Photo

Silver Lion for Best Director: Luca Guadagnino, for Bones and All

Volpi Cup for Best Actress: Cate Blanchett, for Tár

Volpi Cup for Best Actor: Colin Farrell, for The Spirits of the Island

Taylor Russell from Canada, with “Marcello Mastroianni”. AFP photo

Special Jury Prize: No Bears, by Jafar Panahi

Best Screenplay: Martin McDonagh, for The Spirits of the Island.

Marcello Mastroianni Award for Best New Actor or Actress: Taylor Russell, for Bones and All

The new hybrid SUV Lexus RX, the other star of Venice

The new Lexus RX hybrid SUV has stolen the spotlight from some of the stars of the International Film Festival in its 79th edition. For the sixth consecutive year, the brand is the official car of the Biennale and is in charge of transporting the actors and guests to the red carpet. Hence Cate Blanchett, the great winner of this Mostra, appears in the image that opens this information next to the vehicle. Not only the Australian has moved in this luxurious car: Julianne Moore, Regé-Jean Page, Rocio Morales, Catherine Deneuve or Tessa Thompson, among others, arrived on the red carpet in the new Lexus RX hybrid SUV.

Until Saturday’s closing ceremony, the organization had a fleet of 40 Lexus vehicles at the Venice Lido, including the UX 300e electric crossover, the NX, the ES and the LC 500 Cabrio (the brand’s multi-award winning benchmark convertible). ). Venice has also served the brand to make the official presentation of the new RX in Italy.

The new RX has arrived this summer to the Spanish market. This is the fifth generation of this model, a true best seller of the brand over the last two decades. In fact, more than 3.5 million units have been sold worldwide since its launch in 1998 (more than 300,000 in Europe).

This model is the flagship of the brand’s SUV range. It was introduced 17 years ago as the world’s first premium hybrid SUV and now explores all the possibilities offered by hybridization with a range of three alternatives.