Have to figure out something useful to say if I win … “- Aftonbladet

Tonight is it.

Gold Lion, any other prize or nothing to the film festival for Roy Andersson’s “A pigeon sat on a branch and musing on life.”

– It’s a little nerve-racking. And I have to figure out something useful to say if I win, says Roy told Aftonbladet day before the ceremony.

He previously cocky saying that he should just win Golden Lion. Now he tone down the talking bit.

– It has been a great time here. All the commotion and everything nice response we have received on the film. I’m happy if I get another price too. But at the same time … Tim Roth (“Pulp Fiction” -skådespelaren sitting in the jury) was almost lyrical about the film when we met. We’ll see how it goes.

Roy In any case, glad it was Venice instead of Cannes, where the festival managers saw a not quite finished film.

– They said they simply did not understand it, he says.

“It’s fun too”

Here in Venice, it is the more that has been done it. The talk among journalists in between, suggesting that Roy, the “Birdman” and the documentary “The Look of Silence” are favorites. Then, of course, the jury conjure up any total outsider, it happens quite often.

Roy Andersson has done 76 interviews. In the morning, he goes on to Toronto for more pr, when the film is shown at the film festival.

– It is right out of your head after so many interviews. But it’s fun too. People have such different entry angles. Many are stuck on the phrase “I’m glad you have it good” is said a few times in the film. Subconsciously, I think it comes from what my parents told me on the phone when I had moved to Stockholm and started to film school many years ago.

“Must be something nice”

Have you prepared any acceptance speech

– I’ve been thinking a little bit. There may well be something nice about what Italian movie has meant to me and to the whole world.

Top 10 highlights from the Venice Festival 2014

1) Roy Andersson

I was 15, just like the main characters, when his debut movie “A Love Story” ( 1970) came, saw and went straight into the heart. Do see if it about every five years and it still stands as the all-time best Swedish film. Now it has been a great honor and pleasure to follow the director in Venice. Then Roy had the same favorite restaurant, we chatted a little bit every day. Wow, so I do not begrudge this wayward director to get raise the Golden Lion.

2) “Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)”

Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritus black comedy about the theater world is maybe just a bit sharper than Roy’s film. But where it will be so much Oscar nominations that he probably will not be too sad about the Swedish film wins.

3) Frances McDormand

“Fargo” star has not given interviews in eleven years. But was just so smart, funny and outspoken, when she was advertising the HBO series “Olive Kittridge.”

4) “Im Keller”

Ulrich Seidls documentary about what goes Austrians in the basement, beats most in terms of human follies.

5) Adam Driver

As well as Lena Dunham’s boyfriend in the TV series “Girls.” So funny in bioaktuella “What if”. So good, both in film drama “Hungry Heart” and subsequent interview. A superstar in the making.

6) “Good Guy”

Thought-provoking drama about how the United States uses drones in pursuit of terrorists. The last film in Venice was one of the better – just like the last interview with the film’s star Ethan Hawke.

7) Alexandra Daddario

The actress tweeted that President Obama had seen her tits , was the festival’s most charming interview.

8) The press conference for “Nymphomaniac”

The festival’s most unexpected feature at a press conference, was when Stellan Skarsgard took three “lifelines” and called Lars von Trier.

9) Big Brother house

three Norwegians, two Danes, an Englishman and a Bellman, I kept on writing, have shared the editorial in a large house on a canal on the Lido. Much more fun (and cheaper) than staying in a hotel.

10) Trattoria Africa

Restaurant on Via Lazzaro Mocenigo 9 at the Lido island where the festival takes place. So good and affordable food, that you overlook that it’s sometimes a bit ‘Fawlty Towers’ over staff behavior.

… and it was the worst

Al Pacino’s two movies

He was talkative that get in press conferences and in the few interviews he did,

but his two films – “The humbling” and “Manglehorn” – was easily forgotten failures.

Italian cuisine

Pasta, pasta, pasta … it sure feels the Italian

food quite properly overrated after eleven days.

“Cymbeline”

To move a Shakespeare play to a small American town and let all people be members of criminal biker gangs who speak in verse, is among the most horrible I’ve seen at the movies in years.