Other winners at the Venice Film Festival included „The Smashing Machine“ director Benny Safdie and „The Voice of Hind Rajab.“
The 82nd Venice Film Festival came to a close on Saturday, with Jim Jarmusch’s “Father Mother Sister Brother” taking the top award, the Golden Lion for Best Film. The drama starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver, Mayim Bialik, Tom Waits and Charlotte Rampling is a triptych that follows three stories set in different countries. “Father” takes place in the Northeast U.S.; “Mother” is set in Dublin; and “Sister Brother” is set in Paris. The movie explores the relationships between adult children, their parents and each other.
In his review of “Father Mother Sister Brother” for TheWrap, Ben Croll referenced Jarmusch’s 2003 collection of vignettes, writing that the new film “feels like a more tonally cohesive ‘Coffee and Cigarettes,’ shot in one contained stretch rather than pieced together from shorts made over a decade. And as with that earlier anthology — as with any anthology — some vignettes land more forcefully than others. In this instance, there is no other but ‘Mother.’”
The Golden Lion was announced by jury president Alexander Payne.
Going into the evening, Kaouther Ben Hania’s drama set in Gaza, “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” was considered the favorite to win the Golden Lion, but it ended up taking instead the Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize. (The jury, which also included Fernanda Torres, Mohammad Rasoulof, Zhao Tao, Stéphane Brizé, Maura Delpero and Cristian Mungiu, was rumored to be very divided.
