Top Contenders for the Venice Film Festival 2007 Awards
by Andre Soares
According to press reports, among the favorites to win the several Venice 2007 Lions tomorrow are:
Best Film/Director:
Grain of Life / The Grain and the Mullet / La Graine et le mulet (top) by Abdel Kechiche, the tale of a Tunisian immigrant who, at the rist of losing his job in a French fishing town, tries to stave off financial ruin by opening a floating couscous restaurant.
Redacted, Brian De Palma’s war drama about the rape an Iraqi girl by U.S. servicemen.
Todd Haynes’s surreal Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There.
Best Actor:
Michael Caine and Jude Law in Sleuth, Kenneth Branagh’s remake of the 1972 Michael Caine-Laurence Olivier intricate drama.
Best Actress:
Hafsia Herzi in Grain of Life; newcomer Tang Wei, as the seducer in Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution; Cate Blanchett as one of the many Bob Dylans in I’m Not There; and Kierston Wareing, as a tough single mother-cum-entrepreneur in Ken Loach’s social critique It’s a Free World.
As usual, expect lots of surprises.
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I’M NOT THERE: Bob Dylan Not at the Venice Film Festival 2007
SLEUTH at Venice 2007: To Remake or Not to Remake
THE GRAIN OF LIFE: Great Cinema at Venice 2007
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