Jarmusch’s Boring Movie Wins Venice 2025’s Golden Lion High Prize
by Alex Billington September 6, 2025Source: Biennale
On the finish of all of it, we lastly have our winners. The 82nd Venice Movie Pageant wrapped up this weekend on the sunny Lido island in Venice, and awards have been handed out at a elaborate awards present within the Sala Grande. The highest prize at Venice is a Golden Lion (in honor of the enduring lion that’s the image of town) and it is one of many high prizes in cinema together with the Palme d’Or from Cannes (which was given to Jafar Panahi in Might). This 12 months’s winner is a movie titled Father Mom Sister Brother, the newest characteristic from American filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, again after a six 12 months hiatus with out making a lot. Alas it can go down in cinema historical past as one of many worst movie pageant prizes ever. Barely anybody appreciated this movie, apart from a handful of critics. Nobody suppose it deserves any awards. And someway it received over a number of the most unimaginable, awards-worthy movies of the 12 months: No Different Alternative, Silent Good friend, A Home of Dynamite, The Testomony of Ann Lee. What was the jury as much as? Why this one? The last word nothing, boring, unexciting movie has received an award it does not deserve. Ugh. Final 12 months in Venice, Pedro Almodovar’s The Room Subsequent Door received over The Brutalist – one other unusual choose. The prize for Finest Director was given out to Benny Safdie (one other sudden selection) together with various different very bizarre picks from the jury. View the total checklist of #Venezia82 winners beneath.
Important Venice Awards
The jury chaired by filmmaker Alexander Payne and in addition together with Stéphane Brizé, Maura Delpero, Cristian Mungiu, Mohammad Rasoulof, Fernanda Torres, and Zhao Tao, after watching all 21 movies, has awarded:
Golden Lion for Finest Movie:Father Mom Sister Brother by Jim Jarmusch
Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize:The Voice of Hind Rajab by Kaouther Ben Hania
Silver Lion Award for Finest Director:Benny Safdie for the movie The Smashing Machine
Coppa Volpi for Finest Actress:Xin Zhilei within the movie Solar Rises on Us All (Ri Gua Zhong Tian) by Shangjun Cai
Coppa Volpi for Finest Actor:Toni Servillo within the movie Grace (La Grazia) by Paolo Sorrentino
Award for Finest Screenplay:Valérie Donzelli for At Work (À pied d’oeuvre) additionally by Valérie Donzelli
Particular Jury Prize:Beneath the Clouds (Sotto le Nuvole) by Gianfranco Rosi
Marcello Mastroianni Award for Finest Younger Actor or Actress:Luna Wedler within the movie Silent Good friend by Ildikó Enyedi
“Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Movie:Quick Summer season by Nastia Korkia
Armani Magnificence Viewers Award:Calle Málaga by Maryam Touzani
Orizzonti Part Awards
The Orizzonti Jury, chaired by filmmaker Julia Ducournau, additionally together with Yuri Ancarani, Fernando Enrique Juan Lima, Shannon Murphy, and RaMell Ross, after watching 19 characteristic movies in competitors, awarded:
Orizzonti Award for Finest Movie:On the Highway (En el Camino) by David Pablos
Orizzonti Award for Finest Director:Anuparna Roy for the movie Songs of Forgotten Timber
Particular Orizzonti Jury Prize:Misplaced Land (Harà Watan) by Akio Fujimoto
Orizzonti Award for Finest Actress:Benedetta Porcaroli in Kidnapping of Arabella (Il rapimento di Arabella) by Carolina Cavalli
Orizzonti Award for Finest Actor:Giacomo Covi within the movie A 12 months of College (Un anno di scuola) by LauraSamani
Orizzonti Award for Finest Screenplay:Ana Cristina Barragán for The Ivy (Hiedra) additionally by Ana Cristina Barragán
That is all for now. For the total checklist of awards (together with just a few extra), head to labiennale.org. Congratulations to the entire winners this 12 months. Although now it is time to rant: that is horrible. Actually, actually – an exceptionally irritating, solely nonsensical Golden Lion choose. WHY?! There may be NO attention-grabbing or distinctive or progressive or intelligent filmmaking in Jarmusch’s movie in any respect. It’s infuriating to award this movie the highest prize on the Venice Movie Pageant over any variety of different distinctive movies that truly have some vibrant, vivid, masterful filmmaking inside them: No Different Alternative, Silent Good friend, A Home of Dynamite, The Testomony of Ann Lee. I additionally didn’t need The Voice of Hind Rajab to win for political causes. Vital story & necessary movie, however the filmmaking isn’t that attention-grabbing or thrilling both. However at the least that may’ve been higher than this one. The remainder of the awards additionally do not make sense. Benny Safdie for Finest Director? Huh!? Nothing for Park Chan-wook? One tiny award for Silent Good friend which is a masterpiece? Jesse Plemons in Bugonia deserved to win for Finest Actor. Amanda Seyfried in Ann Lee deserved to win for Finest Actress. I am so upset by this. However that is simply my opinion and it is time to transfer on. I might reasonably get again to specializing in my favorites – the movies that basically do deserve our consideration. As at all times, attempt to catch any of those movies within the theater once they open. Hopefully they’re going to be at one other fest close to you or releasing quickly. For extra of my Venice 2025 posts, click on right here.
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