Stockholm Film Festival - 2007 Winners
November 24th, 2007 by Andre Soares
Cristian Mungiu’s drama 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days received the Bronze Horse for best film at the 2007 edition of the Stockholm Film Festival.
Mungiu’s drama about a young woman helping a friend to undergo an illegal abortion during the Nicolae Ceausescu era was chosen for its depiction of a "strictly controlled society" along which "lies horrifying tests for body and soul."
At the awards ceremony held this evening, the film also earned best actress honors for Anamaria Marinca, who, as per the Stockholm jury chaired by U.S. filmmaker Tom Kalin, is "never sentimental, [is] always sharply specific" and "brings empathy and complexity to her role."
Earlier this year, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The film is Romania’s entry for the 2007 foreign-language film Academy Award.
Jason Patric was the best actor winner for his portrayal of a parking officer whose job serves as an outlet for all his frustrations — that is, until he meets a sweet meter maid (Samantha Morton) — in Cecilia Miniucchi’s Expired. According to the jury, "it is rare in film that a deeply flawed and potentially unsympathetic character can evoke such depth of emotion. Beneath his prickly exterior and commanding physicality, we experience a fully realized character, balanced between comedy and tragedy."
Jason Reitman’s Juno (above), starring Ellen Page as a pregnant young woman in search of adoptive parents for her upcoming baby was the audience award winner, while the FIPRESCI (International Film Critics) prize went to Nadine Labaki’s slight but charming Caramel, about a group of women and their romantic troubles in today’s Beirut. Caramel is Lebanon’s foreign-language film entry for the next Academy Awards.
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