Spanish director Pedro Almodovar's
end-of-life film 'The Room Next Door' starring Tilda Swinton and
Julianne Moore won the Golden Lion at the 2024 Venice Film
Festival on Saturday while Italian Maura Delpero's 'Vermiglio'
took the Grand Jury Prize runner-up award.
Nicole Kidman, who left the festival early after learning of her
mother's death, won the best actress prize for her performance
in the erotic thriller 'Babygirl' while France Vincent's Lindon
took the best actor gong for his interpretation of a father of a
teenage right-wing extremist in 'The Quiet Son'.
The Room Next Door, Almodovar's first English-language movie, is
about two old friends who reconnect after the character played
by Swinton gets terminal cancer.
Vermiglio focuses on the effects of World War II on a small
town.
Vermiglio says it "is a war story without bombs or big battles,
in the ironclad logic of the mountains which every day remind
man how small he is".
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