More on the 2006 Venice Film Festival Winners
by Andre Soares
More on the Venice Film Festival 2006 Winners:
In Reuters (via The Scotsman), Mike Collett-White writes that "the jury at the Venice Film Festival left critics and journalists perplexed and in some cases vexed when it awarded top prize to China’s Still Life."
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In The [London] Independent, Clifford Coonan writes, "Significantly, Still Life won the Golden Lion just a few days after Jia [Zhang-ke]’s fellow director Lou Ye was banned from making movies for five years for submitting Summer Palace — a romance set against the backdrop of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests — in Cannes, without official approval.
"As an independent director, most of Jia’s output is not shown in China as his films are made without official permission, although his previous film, The World, about workers at a Wonders of the World-style theme park outside Beijing, was given general release."
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