“Nomadland,” a film written and directed by Chloé Zhao, won this year’s Golden Lion, the top prize, at the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival. The drama stars Frances McDormand as a woman living as a nomad across America after the recent recession. The festival, which opened Sept. 2 and closed on Saturday, was the first major international film event since the coronavirus pandemic began. This year, the festival jury chose the Golden Lion winner from a slightly smaller roster of films in the main competition. The lineup lacked the festival’s usual Hollywood blockbusters (last year, Todd Phillips’s “Joker” took home the Golden Lion) and for the first time in a decade an Italian film opened the festival — Daniele Luchetti’s “Lacci,” a marriage drama set in Naples.

Source: International New York Times September 12, 2020 18:56 UTC