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Published at:  Dec 08, 2002 11:38:42 AM CST

Father Geek here to introduce our Euro-editor Robert Bernocchi from Rome with the results of the 15th annual European Film Awards... I'm afraid I'll have to agree with Robert that Roman Polanski got robbed... in my opinion he and his great masterwork, "The Pianist" clearly deserved the top honors, although "Talk To Her" is a wonderful motion picture for sure...

Here's Robert with the winners...


Hi people, Robert here.

Saturday evening here in Rome they announced the winners of the 15th European Fim Awards. It was a great ceremony for Pedro Almodovar, who was able to win five prizes for his movie "Talk to Her", including Best Movie, Best Director and Best Screenwriter. I'm probably the only critic in the world who didn't loved his pic and I'm very disappointed that Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" didn't receive what it deserved (it won only for the best cinematographer). There is also (not considering the Lefetime achievement Award for the Fellini and Antonioni's screenwriter Tonino Guerra) a prize for an Italian. In fact, Sergio Castellitto won in the category Best Actor. I like him very much, even if I don't reckon he gave his best performance ever in the movies for which he was nominated...

Anyway, this is a full list of the winners:


BEST EUROPEAN FILM 2002

Talk to Her by Pedro Almodovar

BEST EUROPEAN DIRECTOR

Pedro Almodovar for Talk to her

BEST EUROPEAN SCREENWRITER

Pedro Almodovar for Talk to Her

BEST EUROPEAN ACTOR

Sergio Castellitto for My Mother's Smile and Mostly Martha

BEST EUROPEAN ACTRESS

The ensemble cast of 8 femmes (Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant, Emanuelle Béart, Virginie Ledoyen, Danielle Darrieux, Ludivine Sagnier, Firmine Richard)

BEST EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHER

Pawel Edelman for The Pianist

SCREEN INTERNATIONAL AWARD FOR NON-EUROPEAN FILM

Elia Suleiman for Divine Intervention

THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE AWARDS
BEST DIRECTOR

Pedro Almodovar for Talk to Her

BEST ACTOR

Javier Camara for Talk to Her

BEST ACTRESS

Kate Winslet for Iris



EUROPEAN DISCOVERY

Hukkle by Gyorgy Palfi

EUROPEAN DOCUMENTARY AWARD-PRIX ARTE

Etre et avoir by Nicolas Philibert

EUROPEAN SHORT FILM

10 Minutes by Ahmed Imamovic

EUROPEAN CRITICS' AWARD

Sweet Sixteen by Ken Loach

EUROPEAN ACHIEVEMENT IN WORLD CINEMA

Victoria Abril

EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Tonino Guerra


Robert Bernocchi

http://www.caltanet.it/2003/?id_arg=2003&desc=CINEMA



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  • Dec 08, 2002 11:46:03 AM CST

    Surely, someone out there cares about this?

    by mr bonefish

    Come on people...jeez. Roman...I really loved his "Ninth Gate". Yeah, I know.

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  • Dec 08, 2002 12:43:15 PM CST

    ignorant assholes!

    by tarantinowebsite

  • Dec 08, 2002 12:44:37 PM CST

    why?

    by tarantinowebsite

    why the fuck should THEY care about your not caring about it? get the fuck out of your i-love-hollywood attitude and get to watch some foreign films, you ignorants.

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  • Dec 08, 2002 1:12:16 PM CST

    Obsequio

    by tabalf

    Yes, very good, but it helps to make comments that aren't an utter pile of bollocks.

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  • Dec 08, 2002 2:09:02 PM CST

    Pedro

    by hausi

    sorry folks , I happen to live in the middle of Europe (Luxembourg) and I am so pissed off at the fact that this bonehead of Almodovar won again ... he could direct a translation of a f**king phone book and still win best director ...I guess he's still laughing because he won an Oscar for this Valium called Todo Sobre Mi Madre ....
    Pissed off,
    Marc

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  • Dec 08, 2002 3:13:03 PM CST

    The ONLY TWO European flicks I've ever enjoyed were "Brotherhood

    by neofromthematrix

    Those movies (which incidentally were based on real stories) were pretty interesting, not to mention entertaining (for French artsy films). One of my favorite films of all time has to be "The Ninth Gate", but I don't consider it a foreign film, simply because it starts off in New York, and Johnny Depp is in it. I think that what I'm saying is that, sure, 95 percent of what Hollywood makes is utter shit, but that residual 5 percent remaining is much better than anything imported from overseas. - There is no spoon.

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  • Dec 08, 2002 3:15:04 PM CST

    SWORD

    by julio_zapata

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  • Dec 08, 2002 3:25:12 PM CST

    It pisses me off when they call English/Americans lazy for not w

    by monkey lover

    All the other countries dub their foreign films. That's some lazy-ass shit.

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  • Dec 08, 2002 3:39:52 PM CST

    Talk to Her is an excellent Movie

    by flipao

    And so was All About my Mother, you can say you didn't like it, but you can't deny both movies are brilliant.

    In a polluted homophobic society like your america Almodovar can't be popular :P

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  • Dec 08, 2002 5:01:55 PM CST

    8 Women

    by ambrose chappell

    8 Women was a good movie and I'm glad that the cast is being recognized. I could have done without the song and dance numbers in the movie, but the acting was definately top shelf.

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  • Dec 08, 2002 5:49:21 PM CST

    I Agree with you, Hausi

    by cyco_clown

    Almodovar is way overrated IMHO. I recognize his importance to revitalize Spanish cinema but his films never appealed to me either. _ As for the stupid talkback nerds, hey, despite their prejudice to anything non-Sci-fi/fantasy related, they are the reason AICN exists :D _ Keep the good job in bringing foreign films information Harry & co. I'm sure a whole lot of readers care, they only don't waste much time in talkbacks...

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  • Dec 08, 2002 6:02:36 PM CST

    good foreign films

    by roli the zero

  • Dec 08, 2002 6:53:47 PM CST

    "French artsy films"?????

    by damorend

    If "Brotherhood of the Wolf" and "Vidocq" are french artsy films I guess "Asterix et Obelix" and "Nikita" are also french artsy films.

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  • Dec 08, 2002 7:12:53 PM CST

    Hey, Neo

    by slaterc3

    Thanks for the hilarious post! I needed that.

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  • Dec 08, 2002 7:55:49 PM CST

    neo neo

    by roli the zero

    Once again Neo(i didn

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  • Dec 08, 2002 11:27:53 PM CST

    Kate Winslet was in Iris for about 8 minutes!

    by johnnybarrett

    Was this award intended for Winslet or the star of Iris, Judie Dench?

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  • Dec 09, 2002 12:18:46 PM CST

    hausi, etc.

    by tabalf

  • Dec 09, 2002 12:21:03 PM CST

    hausi, etc.

    by tabalf

    I wonder if you've actually watched "Hable Con Ella". It's certainly one of the best films I've seen this year. And the fact that other countries dub English-speaking films doesn't make American/British/etc. viewers any less lazy for not wanting to read subtitles.

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  • Dec 09, 2002 12:23:09 PM CST

    I watched this on cable

    by lord shatner

    Tonino Guerra gave a very long speech in Italian which was neither subtitled nor translated, which was frustrating given that he seemed to be passionate about what he was saying

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  • Heehee! That's pretty cool julio...I guess a post has been deleted from this TB because I can make head or tail of it! What I wanted to say is that there are plenty of great European films, and thought I'd splurt off some of my favourites, films which everyone should see. Try these: La Vita e bella, Cleo de 5 a 7, Alphaville, Belle de Jour, A bout de Souffle, Dobermann, The Vanishing [the Dutch one, not that piece of crap with Jeff Bridges, which was a remake I might add], La Strada, Jules et Jim, Breaking the Waves, I'm on the phone now so I gotta go, but you should check them out!

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  • Dec 09, 2002 7:20:43 PM CST

    Are you possibly a dumbass?

    by otto parts

  • Dec 10, 2002 4:54:47 AM CST

    Hable con ella

    by voxmillennium

    I saw it a few months ago and came out with mixed feelings. First of all I had a hard time sympathizing for a character that rapes a woman in a coma, whatever his motivations; so I wasn't particularly moved nor interested the way he ended up, but hey, that's just me. The dance sequences of Pina Bausch's ensemble were ok; there's two of them in the movie; the first one annoyed the hell out of me, because it was the usual pretentious crap, but the last one at the end of the movie was great to watch. All in all, I don't know why they were put into the movie, even though one of the women was a dancer; he could have given her another profession.
    The second biggest problem, after the main character being very hard to have sympathy for, I had with the movie that all the storylines were treated quite superficially and basically didn't have any depth.
    Almodovar's obsession with the son-mother relationship is getting a bit old and I think the guy should not dump his failed therapy on us as an audience.
    There's a great scene with an old man singing a jazzy arrangement of a well known song, that is really moving and there's a pretty funny surreal dream sequence of a guy being miniaturized and hiking over a woman's naked body, until he finally disappears inside her.
    The acting is superb in the movie, but I guess the topic just didn't do it for me on the one hand and on the other hand the characters remain too sketchy and therefor unbelievable and cliche.
    Not that this award amounts to a heck of a lot of beans internationally, but they should have given it to either Julio Medem or Tom Tykwer ...

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  • Dec 10, 2002 8:16:55 AM CST

    well, I disagree...

    by mithril

    I've enjoyed a lot of Almodovar movies and Habla con Ella was okay, but it definitely wasn't his best work. Honestly, I suspected that either Polanski or Almodovar would win, simply because everyone seems to have this recent need to kiss their asses. That said, The Pianist is a good film, but still, there were plenty of other movies I would've liked to have won something, like The Man Without a Past. Maybe they just thought that having won Best Actress and the Special Jury Prize in Cannes, it had been awarded enough. Some people are probably also pissed Lilja 4-ever didn't win. (Personally, I wasn't that impressed with it.) ***And yes, there's plenty of good European movies out there. Most of them are relationship dramas, that's true, and some people might find those boring. But I think Europeans avoid making action films for the most part because they know the audience is going to go to Hollywood to get the action stuff (the budgets being higher and everything), so they mostly (note: mostly) stick to the emotional stuff. I thought a Frenchman said it best: "Americans mostly do movies about what happens and how, while the French mostly do movies about why something happens." ***Oh, and would the people here remember that it's not just the US and Europe that do films. What about Asia (from Anime to action to dramas to horror and sci-fi) and its great contribution e.g. this year (Spirited Away, The Eye, Avalon...), Bollywood movies or Antipodean (that's Australia and New Zealand) cinema?

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