“I’ve never seen anything like it. It was kind of like the Giro d’Italia with the crowd along the streets when coming and going. It’s amazing, says Roy Andersson segerrusigt after receiving the festival’s most prestigious award at a ceremony on Saturday night. “
The film portrays two men who travel around and sell jokes. During the 101 minutes long movie time a variety of human destinies pass revue while the audience is reminded of life’s splendor and human vulnerability.
The director of the festival, was victorious, and said he would win, even though the film was rejected by the jury of the Cannes Festival earlier this year.
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“I joked a little. I likes to be a little cocky to put pressure on myself. My good friend and protégé Ruben Östlund says he’ll beat me with his film. then I think it’s fun to have a little fun back. then it might sound cocky, but it is kindly meant. “
According to Anna Serner, CEO of the Swedish Film Institute, where Andersson was the gain well deserved.
“He is a unique voice and incredibly consistent in its unique imagery., I’m so glad that it has been highlighted. This is film as art, really.”
In addition to Andersson himself a Golden Lion also of great importance for to demonstrate the quality of the Swedish film, says Serner.
“It works as a carrot to other filmmakers and show that it is actually possible, but also when we are trying to help the Swedish film out into the world on various festivals. “
Self Andersson has already begun to think about his next movie.
” It is not gonna take seven years this time. Maybe four. It takes three years for me to make a movie about. “
He suggests that his admirers will recognize his imagery.
” It will probably be something a little new actually. I say this every time, but I come back to the same. “
The Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival and this year’s edition is the 71st.
It’s the first time that a Swedish film wins the prize; Ingmar Bergman did, however, receive an honorary Golden Lion in 1971.
Tonight’s second greatest prize, the Silver Lion, went to Russian director Andrei Koncalovskij for the movie “The Postman’s White Nights . “
The prices for best female and male actor went to Alba Rohrwacher and Adam Driver who both played in the film” Hungry Hearts, “directed by Saverio Costanzo Italian.
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