Todd Phillips' Joker took home the Golden Lion top prize in Venice
. More than one viewer wondered why the film, about an art heist gone very wrong, was not given a competition slot. in a post- #MeToo world, the film was received with a hero’s welcome in Italy. Polanski, who was convicted of statutory rape in 1978, last year was expelled from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. is a retelling of the Dreyfus Affair. It was announced as the early winner of the FIPRESCI prize and received the highest average rating among Italian critics.
When jury president Lucrecia Martel announced she cannot separate the man from his art, producers threatened to pull the film, although her words were misconstrued as she had said during the festival's opening press conference that An Officer and a Spy deserves its spot in Venice. "I have to say that it won't be easy for me, and that's why it's certain that I will not attend Mr. Polanski's gala," said Martel at the, who attended a press and industry screening of the film, "because I represent many women who are fighting in Argentina on these types of issues. And I don't want to have to stand up and clap,” she continued.
“But I think it is correct that Polanski’s film is here at this festival because it's a dialogue we won't give up on, and this is the best possible place to go deep on this type of discussion," she said.
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