Op het 83ste Filmfestival van Venetië won de Deense film Woman Unknown zaterdagavond de Gouden Leeuw voor beste film. Mathilde Arcel werd beste actrice, John Malkovich beste acteur. De juryprijs ging naar de Israëlische documentaire Naza, waarin militairen en inlichtingenofficieren vertellen over de oorlog in Gaza.
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May el-Toukhy becomes eighth female director to take Golden Lion in festival’s 77-year history, as Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love and Guardian-produced documentary about Israeli intelligence also awarded
May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown has scooped the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, at an awards ceremony that also saw the Gaza documentary NAZA win the jury prize.
Set in the immediate aftermath of Danish liberation from Nazi occupation, the Egyptian-Danish director’s film tells the story of a young housemaid, Marie (Mathilde Arcel), who is about to marry her widowed employer but anxious about him discovering a shameful secret in her past: during the war, Marie had an intimate relationship with a German soldier.
Continue reading...As the final whistle blew Bruno Guimarães wore a mischievous smile, Enzo Le Fée was a study in dejection and Arsenal’s immaculate start to the season remained unblemished.
Two minutes after David Raya had rather majestically saved Le Fée’s second-half penalty, Guimarães delighted his new north London public and plenty of old friends in Newcastle by sending a shot curving past Robin Roefs from the edge of the area.
Continue reading...After facing heavy criticism over its lack of female directors, the film festival may have redeemed itself with its winners’ list
Did the Venice film festival just redeem itself on the sexism issue? It made a really good choice for the top prize, giving it to a female director, and it’s a good winners’ list all round.
Having been pilloried for failing to include enough women film-makers, the festival awarded the Golden Lion to Woman Unknown, by the Danish-Egyptian director May el-Toukhy, her gripping and stylish drama-thriller about sexual shame, political paranoia and the return of the repressed in Denmark after the second world war.
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ROUEN (ANP/AFP) - Er zijn geen aanwijzingen dat bij de ontsporing van een trein in het noorden van Frankrijk vrijdag sprake was van opzet, melden de lokale autoriteiten zaterdagavond.
"Uit het onderzoek is geen nieuwe informatie naar voren gekomen over de vraag waarom er een stuk van een andere spoorstaaf op een van de rails lag", aldus Sébastien Gallois, aanklager in Rouen, in een verklaring. "Op dit moment zijn er geen aanwijzingen voor een kwaadwillige daad met de intentie om de trein te laten ontsporen, en zeker niet voor een opzettelijke aanslag", zei hij.
Door het ongeluk tussen Rouen en Caen raakten 44 mensen gewond. Over de oorzaak van het ongeval ontstonden al snel speculaties. Een anonieme politiebron meldde aan persbureau AFP dat de politie vermoedde dat de ontsporing het gevolg was van sabotage.
Hervé Morin, voorzitter van het regiobestuur Normandië, stelde dat "de meest waarschijnlijke hypothese" een daad was "die niet alleen kwaadwillig is, maar ook als crimineel kan worden bestempeld".
Anthony Tommasini (LitHub, 9/10/26), "Beauty in Ambiguity: On Marian Anderson's Lifelong Love For Schubert": "When selecting songs ... she always looked first to Schubert, 'the composer I love best,' who wrote 'hundreds of them,' each 'more beautiful than the last.'" E.g.: Ständchen (No. 4 in D. 957); Der Tod und das Mädchen (D. 531); Ave Maria (D. 839); and Erlkönig (D. 328) i.e. Goethe's poem based on a ballad also adapted in Benedikte Naubert's 1792 "The Erl-King's Daughter." Classical Voice North America on Tommasini: Anderson "feared she would be remembered for breaking barriers rather than for her artistry." At LitHub, Tommasini discusses "Wohin?" and "Ungeduld" from D. 795, but also "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child." He mentions Roland Hayes singing Schubert as an influence. At Largehearted Boy, he makes more suggestions.