VENICE (AFP) - The Golden Lion in Venice was awarded Saturday to a hilarious and shockingly explicit reworking of Frankenstein, 'Poor Things', starring Emma Stone as a sex-mad reanimated corpse, which had festival-goers in stitches.
"Poor Things" by Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos was labelled an "instant classic" by critics. It looks set to repeat the success of his 2018 film "The Favourite", which won two awards in Venice on its way to a string of international prizes.
The film features some of the most explicit sex ever seen in an A-list Hollywood film as Stone's character discovers -- and very much enjoys -- her sexuality. He used his speech to back the Hollywood strike and warn of the"terrifying" threat from artificial intelligence, one of the key issues in the dispute.
Chastain earlier said that actors had been silenced for too long about"workplace abuse" and"unfair contracts". "Green Border", a harrowing account of refugees trapped between Belarus and Poland, took the third-place Special Jury Prize. One of the stranger entries,"El Conde", which reimagined Chile's former dictator Augusto Pinochet as a vampire, won best screenplay for writer-director Pablo Larrain.The strong line-up helped distract from the controversy around the inclusion of Roman Polanski in the out-of-competition section.
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