Vietnamese characteristic 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 primary 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 assessments new concepts, mixing comedy, social drama and fantasy; for the way in which it depicts the complexity [of] ‘mom and daughter’.”
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Duong’s characteristic debut sees a girl flip to spirits in an try to 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 gained the award for Most Revolutionary Characteristic, assigned by a five-person jury of individuals underneath the age of 35.
The principle 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 images, for the tender gaze on its lovely 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, gained the Viewers Award, with a mean rating of 4.5/5. Additional winners included Michael Premo’s Trump supporter documentary Homegrown, taking the Finest Technical Contribution prize.
“The big variety of this 12 months’s palmares displays not solely the intense outlook of the juries, but additionally the variety of the Critics’ Week programme, which as soon as once more has offered options which can be new, progressive, dynamic, and above all topical, rooted within the current,” stated Critics’ Week creative director Beatrice Fiorentino. “That is additionally demonstrated by the presence of a younger – generally 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 will probably be rewarded. New cinema remains to be doable.”
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
Finest Impartial Manufacturing – Wherever Anytime (It) dir. Milad Tangshit
Finest Technical Contribution – Homegrown (US) dir. Michael Premo
Most Revolutionary Characteristic – Don’t Cry, Butterfly (Viet-Sing-Phi-Indo) dir. Duong Dieu Linh