{"id":2027001,"date":"2023-09-09T19:58:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T23:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wild-comedy-poor-things-wins-top-prize-at-venice-festival\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T20:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T00:00:11","slug":"wild-comedy-poor-things-wins-top-prize-at-venice-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wild-comedy-poor-things-wins-top-prize-at-venice-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Poor Things&#8217; wins prestigious award at Venice Festival for its wild comedy."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwild-comedy-poor-things-wins-top-prize-at-venice-festival%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2027001&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>By Crispian\u200c Balmer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>VENICE (Reuters)\u200b &#8211;<\/strong>\u201cPoor Things\u201d, a\u2064 gothic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wild-comedy-poor-things-wins-top-prize-at-venice-festival\/\" title=\"'Poor Things' wins prestigious award at Venice Festival for its wild comedy.\">sex-charged comedy\u200b directed<\/a> \u2063by Greece\u2019s Yorgos Lanthimos, won the prestigious Golden \u2062Lion award at the Venice Film Festival \u200con Saturday.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo, the British-made film wowed festival-goers with its zany \u2064story\u2062 of\u2062 a woman reanimated after suicide by a mad doctor who replaces her brain with that of her\u2064 unborn baby.<\/p>\n<p>Childlike but with an adult\u2019s body,\u200b Stone\u2019s character Bella\u200b Baxter grows increasingly independent \u2063and excited by her\u2064 sexual experimentations as\u200d she undertakes a voyage of\u2063 self-discovery\u200c through a \u200bsurreal\u200b version of 19th century Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe central character \u200bis \u2064Bella Baxter, \u2062an incredible creature, and she would not exist without Emma Stone, another incredible creature,\u201d said Lanthimos, whose previous\u200c films include \u201cThe Favourite\u201d amd \u201cThe Lobster\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Venice marks the start of the awards season and\u200b regularly throws\u200b up \u2062big\u2064 favourites for the Oscars, with eight \u2062of the \u2064past 11 best director \u200bawards going to \u200bfilms that \u2064debuted here.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d top acting awards at the festival went\u2064 to two U.S. stars \u2014 \u2062Cailee Spaeny, who played the former wife of \u2062Elvis Presley in the biopic \u201cPriscilla\u201d, and Peter Sarsgaard, who featured in the gritty family\u200b drama \u201cMemory\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The runner-up Silver Lion award went\u2064 to \u200c\u201cEvil\u200c Does Not\u2063 Exist\u201d, an enigmatic, rural\u200b drama \u2062directed \u200bby Japan\u2019s Ryusuke Hamaguchi \u2014 the\u2064 only Asian entry among \u2064the 23 films competing for the main prize. \u200d <\/p>\n<p><strong>STRIKE \u200dACTION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s ceremony wrapped\u2063 up\u200c the 11-day movie marathon, which drew an array of top films to Venice, but far fewer stars than normal as\u2063 a long-running Hollywood actors\u2019 strike prevented many A-listers from\u200b coming \u200bto promote their work.<\/p>\n<p>Actors \u200cand writers are demanding that streaming sites and film studios improve\u2062 their contracts and impose curbs on the use of artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n<p>Collecting his\u2064 award, Sarsgaard said AI had\u2063 to be curbed, warning \u2063that the issue had implications that went far beyond Hollywood. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis \u2063holy experience\u2064 of being a human will \u200cbe handed over\u2064 to the \u200cmachines\u200b and the eight billionaires who\u200d own them. So if \u2063we lose that battle in \u2064the strike, our industry will be\u200d the first of many to fall,\u201d\u2062 he said.<\/p>\n<p>Among other prizes handed out \u200bin Venice was a special Jury\u2019s Award\u2064 for \u2063\u201cGreen Border\u201d, a harrowing film about migrants trapped on \u2064the\u2064 Polish-Belarus border, directed by Poland\u2019s Agnieszka Holland.<\/p>\n<p>Best \u2063director went to Italy\u2019s Matteo Garrone for \u201cMe Captain\u201d, another\u200c gripping\u200b migrant movie, which follows two \u2063teenagers from Senegal as they cross Africa hoping to\u200d reach Europe. The \u200dyoung star of the\u2062 film, Seydou Sarr, won the award for \u2064best emerging actor or\u200c actress. <\/p>\n<p>Best screenplay went to\u2063 Guillermo Calderon and Pablo Larrain for the script of \u201cEl Conde\u201d, a satirical \u2062film about Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet.<\/p>\n<p>  (Reporting \u200cby Crispian Balmer \u200dand Roberto Mignucci; Editing by Clelia Oziel)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/wild-comedy-poor-things\/attachment\/the-80th-venice-film-festival-awards-ceremony\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/wild-comedy-poor-things\/attachment\/the-80th-venice-film-festival-awards-ceremony-2\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/wild-comedy-poor-things\/attachment\/the-80th-venice-film-festival-awards-ceremony-3\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/wild-comedy-poor-things\/attachment\/the-80th-venice-film-festival-awards-ceremony-4\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/wild-comedy-poor-things\/attachment\/the-80th-venice-film-festival-awards-ceremony-5\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>83-year-old Pelosi runs \u2064for reelection to Make America San Francisco. Also, Lindsey Graham could have been indicted by \u200bthe Fulton County DA, while Mark Meadows\u2019 request is shot down.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Following 45th President Donald Trump\u2019s fourth indictment, Black\u2063 and Latino voters\u2063 say they\u2062 will support him in 2024.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>1600 scientists from around the world, including \u2062321 from the U.S., have signed \u2063the \u2018World\u200b Climate Declaration\u201d \u2063saying there \u2062is no Climate Emergency.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>In an \u200dexclusive interview, Kentucky Senator Rand \u200cPaul tells\u2063 One\u2062 America \u2064News \u2063that as \u200bnew COVID requirements are emerging at some \u200cschools,\u200d there is no good science to support mandatory masks and\u200d vaccines \u2063among young people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>By Nate Raymond and Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) &#8211;<\/strong>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-court-is-fast-tracking-sidney-powells-request-for-a-forensic-exam-of-dominion-voting-machines\/\" title=\"Federal Court Is Fast-Tracking Sidney Powell\u2019s Request For A Forensic Exam Of Dominion Voting Machines\">federal appeals court<\/a> on Friday ruled the White House, the FBI and\u200c top health\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>By Yelin\u200b Mo and Brenda Goh \u2063BEIJING\/SHANGHAI (Reuters) \u2013<\/strong> A new series of smartphones launched by China\u2019s Huawei Technologies has \u2064drawn global\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>(Reuters) \u2064\u2013<\/strong> \u200cPetroChina\u200d has acquired 100% of electric vehicle (EV) charging firm Potevio \u2062New Energy Co Ltd in the latest lower-carbon investment\u2026 \u200c <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>By Munsif Vengattil \u200bBENGALURU\u200d (Reuters) &#8211;<\/strong>U.S. chip firm\u2062 Nvidia\u2064 and \u200dIndia\u2019s\u200c Reliance on Friday said \u200dthey have formed a partnership to\u200d create\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greece&#8217;s Yorgos Lanthimos triumphed at the Venice Film Festival as his gothic, sex-charged comedy &#8220;Poor Things&#8221; secured the coveted Golden Lion award. 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