Vietnamese function Don’t Cry, Butterfly and UK title Paul & Paulette Take A Bathtub have been among the many winners on the 39th Venice Critics’ Week, introduced on Friday, September 6.
Duong Dieu Linh’s Don’t Cry, Butterfly took the principle Grand Prize, awarded by a jury of Kerem Ayan, Yasmine Benkiran and Ariane Labed. The jury chosen the movie “for its singularity and creativity; as a result of it exams new concepts, mixing comedy, social drama and fantasy; for the best way it depicts the complexity [of] ‘mom and daughter’.”
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Duong’s function debut sees a lady flip to spirits in an try and win again her philandering husband. Barunson E&A handles worldwide gross sales on the movie, which is a collaboration between producers from Vietnam, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia. The movie additionally received the award for Most Progressive Function, assigned by a five-person jury of individuals underneath the age of 35.
The primary jury gave a Particular Point out to Alexandra Simpson’s US-Switzerland co-production No Sleep Until, “for the contemporaneity of the subject and the gorgeous pictures, for the tender gaze on its stunning characters, for its highly effective, melancholic and vibrating environment.”
Jethro Massey’s UK debut Paul & Paulette Take A Bathtub, following a younger American photographer and an acerbic French lady with a style for the macabre, received the Viewers Award, with a mean rating of 4.5/5. Additional winners included Michael Premo’s Trump supporter documentary Homegrown, taking the Greatest Technical Contribution prize.
“The wide range of this 12 months’s palmares displays not solely the intense outlook of the juries, but additionally the range of the Critics’ Week programme, which as soon as once more has offered options which are new, modern, dynamic, and above all topical, rooted within the current,” mentioned Critics’ Week creative director Beatrice Fiorentino. “That is additionally demonstrated by the presence of a younger – typically very younger – viewers, all the time curious and attentive: an encouraging signal for the way forward for festivals and cinema basically, and a reassurance that those that dare might be rewarded. New cinema continues to be potential.”
Venice Critics’ Week 2024 winners
Grand Prize – Don’t Cry, Butterfly (Viet-Sing-Phi-Indo) dir. Duong Dieu Linh
Particular Point out – No Sleep Until (US-Switz) dir. Alexandra Simpson
Viewers award – Paul & Paulette Take A Bathtub (UK) dir. Jethro Massey
Greatest Unbiased Manufacturing – Wherever Anytime (It) dir. Milad Tangshit
Greatest Technical Contribution – Homegrown (US) dir. Michael Premo
Most Progressive Function – Don’t Cry, Butterfly (Viet-Sing-Phi-Indo) dir. Duong Dieu Linh