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Pro-euthanasia movie The Room Next Door has won the Venice Film Festival's champion movie award.
The diagnostic movie starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore took the prestigious Golden Lion grant connected Saturday.
Earlier successful the week, the Pedro Almodovar-directed movie received an 18-minute lasting ovation aft it premiered astatine the festival - 1 of the longest successful caller memory.
Accepting the award, 74-year-old Spanish manager told the audience: "I judge that saying goodbye to this satellite cleanly and with dignity is simply a cardinal close of each quality being."
The movie sees Swinton play a warfare analogous suffering from terminal cancer. She asks her aged friend, played by Moore, to beryllium astatine her broadside arsenic she takes her ain life.
Almodovar said helium made the movie to pass his content euthanasia should beryllium disposable astir the world.
"It is not a governmental issue, but a quality issue," the Oscar-winner Almodovar said. The movie is his archetypal diagnostic movie successful English.
Almodovar besides thanked Moore and Swinton for their performances.
"This grant truly belongs to them, it's a movie astir 2 women and the 2 women are Julianne and Tilda."
President of the jury, French histrion Isabelle Huppert, said the movie tackled important issues thoughtfully and without melodrama.
The Room Next Door is poised to beryllium 1 of the astir talked-about films of awards season.
The 81st variation of the world's oldest movie festival wrapped up connected Saturday night, with planetary celebrities flocking to Venice's reddish carpet.
Among the different grant winners was Nicole Kidman who won the champion histrion grant for her relation successful Babygirl, successful which she plays a high-powered CEO putting her vocation and household connected the enactment to statesman an matter with her overmuch younger intern.
Although Kidman was successful Venice for the film's premiere past week, the Australian histrion did not be the awards ceremonial aft learning her parent had died.
"My bosom is broken," Kidman said successful a connection work retired onstage connected her behalf.
"I'm successful shock, and I person to spell to my family. But this grant is for her. She shaped me, she guided me, and she made me," she said.
France's Vincent Lindon received the champion histrion grant for French connection movie The Quiet Son, astir a household torn isolated by extreme-right radicalism.
The champion manager grant went to American Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, recounting the communicative astir a Hungarian designer and Holocaust subsister played by Adrien Brody, who seeks to rebuild his beingness successful the US.
Queer with Daniel Craig playing a cheery cause addict, and the Maria Callas biopic Maria, starring Angelina Jolie arsenic the celebrated Greek soprano did not get immoderate awards.
The festival marks the commencement of the awards season.
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