The jury at the Venice Film festival, headed up by Quentin Tarantino and including Guillermo Arriaga, Ingeborga Dapkunaite and Danny Elfman, have awarded the Golden Lion prize for Best Film to Sofia Coppola’s Somewhere.
The film stars Stephen Dorff and Elle Fanning and tells of the emotional turbulence encountered in a popular, yet reclusive, actor’s life when his 11 year-old daughter arrives on his doorstep. Unsurprisingly Coppola drew inspiration from her own life for the film, and spoke of her father, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola, saying ‘Thanks to my Dad for teaching me.’
Other prizes handed out in Venice today included the Silver Lion for Best Director which went to Álex de la Iglesia for Balada Triste de Trompeta, a film which also won its writer/director the Best Screenplay award. Jerzy Skolimowski’s Essential Killing won the Special Jury Prize and saw its star Vincent Gallo pick up the Best Actor award.
The opening film, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan saw its young star Mila Kunis awarded the Marcello Mastroianni prize for Best Young Actor or Actress for her work in the pyschological thriller, due to hit the London Film Festival next month.
For all of the awards click here and you can see some images and clips from Somewhere right here.
