“Nomadland,” a movie written and directed by Chloé Zhao, received this 12 months’s Golden Lion, the highest prize, on the 77th version of the Venice Movie Competition.
The drama stars Frances McDormand as a girl dwelling as a nomad throughout America after the current recession. It’s primarily based on the guide by the journalist Jessica Bruder.
The competition, which opened Sept. 2 and closed on Saturday, was the primary main worldwide movie occasion for the reason that coronavirus pandemic started. It had strict social distancing measures in place, and guests have been required to put on face masks each indoors and outside whereas on the competition website.
This 12 months, the competition jury selected the Golden Lion winner from a barely smaller roster of movies in the primary competitors. The lineup lacked the competition’s ordinary Hollywood blockbusters (final 12 months, Todd Phillips’s “Joker” took dwelling the Golden Lion) and for the primary time in a decade an Italian movie opened the competition — Daniele Luchetti’s “Lacci,” a wedding drama set in Naples.
Additionally in competitors for the competition’s high prize have been Mona Fastvold’s “The World to Come,” starring Vanessa Kirby and Casey Affleck, which explores the love between two farmers’ wives in 19th-century America; and “Items of a Girl,” a household drama directed by Kornel Mundruczo and starring Shia LaBeouf.
The competition has additionally made 15 of the movies that premiered on the Lido available to stream online, for a charge, till Sept. 22.
Initially of the competition, the lifetime achievement award was given to the filmmakers Tilda Swinton and Ann Hui. Accepting her award, Swinton stated that to be in “a room with dwelling creatures and an enormous display” was “pure pleasure.”
Aimee Ortiz contributed reporting.
