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Euro-AICN Special Report: The 15th European Film Awards, and the winners are...
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
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
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
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Come on people...jeez. Roman...I really loved his "Ninth Gate". Yeah, I know.
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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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Yes, very good, but it helps to make comments that aren't an utter pile of bollocks.
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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,
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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 3:25:12 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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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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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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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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Hey,i
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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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Thanks for the hilarious post! I needed that.
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Once again Neo(i didn
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Was this award intended for Winslet or the star of Iris, Judie Dench?
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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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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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Dec 09, 2002 1:22:44 PM CST
I have been smoted by the Sword of the Shoe! I have been smoted
by otto parts
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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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 ... -
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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