08-14-2005, 06:47 PM
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<b>Nine Lives takes top Swiss award </b>
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Garcia's earlier films include Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Nine Lives by director Rodrigo Garcia has won the top prize at Switzerland's Locarno film festival.
The US movie, starring Glenn Close, Holly Hunter and Sissy Spacek, beat 17 films to the Golden Leopard award.
Jury head and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro said: \"The directing of the film is extraordinary.\"
Known as \"the smallest of the big film festivals\", the Locarno event gave its special award to Un Couple Parfait by Japanese film-maker Nobuhiro Suwa.
It awarded Silver Leopards to Fratricide by Turkish director Yilmaz Arslan, Three Grad Kaelter (Three Degrees Colder) by Germany's Florian Hoffmeister and Ma Hameh Khoubim (We Are All Fine) by Iranian director Bizhan Mirbaqeri.
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The award for best performance by a male actor went to Patrick Drolet for his role in the film La Neuvaine by Canadian film-maker Bernard Edmond.
Garcia's Nine Lives tells of key turning points in the lives of nine different women.
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Glenn Close shared an ensemble award for best female performance
The ensemble of actresses - which also includes Robin Wright Penn, Emily Mortimer and Molly Parker - won a collective award for best female performance.
The 46-year-old director was previously acclaimed for his 2000 movie Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her.
Jury head Storaro said he had been struck by the fact that nearly all the films in this year's competition portrayed the conflict between the generations, and a lack of love between parents and children.
The 10-day Locarno film festival ended on Saturday, with film-maker Frederic Maire named as its new director, replacing Irene Bignardi.</span>
http://jahia.pardo.ch/index.jsp
<b>Nine Lives takes top Swiss award </b>
<img src='http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40688000/jpg/_40688168_garcia_300.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Garcia's earlier films include Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
Nine Lives by director Rodrigo Garcia has won the top prize at Switzerland's Locarno film festival.
The US movie, starring Glenn Close, Holly Hunter and Sissy Spacek, beat 17 films to the Golden Leopard award.
Jury head and cinematographer Vittorio Storaro said: \"The directing of the film is extraordinary.\"
Known as \"the smallest of the big film festivals\", the Locarno event gave its special award to Un Couple Parfait by Japanese film-maker Nobuhiro Suwa.
It awarded Silver Leopards to Fratricide by Turkish director Yilmaz Arslan, Three Grad Kaelter (Three Degrees Colder) by Germany's Florian Hoffmeister and Ma Hameh Khoubim (We Are All Fine) by Iranian director Bizhan Mirbaqeri.
<img src='http://www.actart.net/comediens/drolet_patrick/drolet_patrick.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
The award for best performance by a male actor went to Patrick Drolet for his role in the film La Neuvaine by Canadian film-maker Bernard Edmond.
Garcia's Nine Lives tells of key turning points in the lives of nine different women.
<img src='http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40688000/jpg/_40688172_close_203.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Glenn Close shared an ensemble award for best female performance
The ensemble of actresses - which also includes Robin Wright Penn, Emily Mortimer and Molly Parker - won a collective award for best female performance.
The 46-year-old director was previously acclaimed for his 2000 movie Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her.
Jury head Storaro said he had been struck by the fact that nearly all the films in this year's competition portrayed the conflict between the generations, and a lack of love between parents and children.
The 10-day Locarno film festival ended on Saturday, with film-maker Frederic Maire named as its new director, replacing Irene Bignardi.</span>
http://jahia.pardo.ch/index.jsp