Colin Farrell won the best actor award at the 79th Venice Film Festival on Saturday night for his role as a good-hearted farmer in a dark comedy, “The Banshees of Inisherin.”
Before the camera of his compatriot Martin McDonagh (Kisses from Bruges), the 46-year-old Irishman shines in a parable about the violent end of a friendship in the bucolic setting of an isolated island of Ireland in the 1920s, at the height of the War of Independence.
The actor, absent from the Lido to receive his award, sent a video message from Los Angeles, saying he was “completely shocked and delighted.”
Australian actress Cate Blanchett won her second career acting award at Venice for her role as a power-drunk director in Todd Field’s “Tár.”
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At 53, the actress known for her feminist commitment offers a marble performance in this drama that evokes contemporary questions about identity, abuse of power or “cancel culture”.
“Thank you for (…) this festival that invites the public to return to theaters, it’s wonderful,” said Cate Blanchett upon receiving her award.
“I will not be here with this award without a wonderful director, this award also goes to Todd Field (…) a great filmmaker who knows where to put the camera every second,” he added.
Fifteen years before this role as an artist, he had already won the prize in Venice for I’m not there by Todd Haynes, where he embodied, crossing the border of the genre, another musician, Bob Dylan.
Source: BFM TV
