‘The Woman Who Left’ by Lav Diaz Wins 73rd Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu8IyG9d2PwZ1zt5T_Uc-7TTY_YcRGJCzOSSXliGqIb-gUth1nB8-IgX3JgE526nZKpxmvDTWWNSJNUJtgUErQglEYza82c2711O1QXwASGbyGonMhL8HH3m_yYa7oz4VwsWhOwVHWMPo/s1600/Woman+Who+Left.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu8IyG9d2PwZ1zt5T_Uc-7TTY_YcRGJCzOSSXliGqIb-gUth1nB8-IgX3JgE526nZKpxmvDTWWNSJNUJtgUErQglEYza82c2711O1QXwASGbyGonMhL8HH3m_yYa7oz4VwsWhOwVHWMPo/s400/Woman+Who+Left.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <span style="font-size: large;">VENICE, Italy — “The Woman Who Left,” a revenge drama by Filipino auteur Lav Diaz about the struggle of a wrongly convicted schoolteacher in the outside world after 30 years behind bars, is the winner of the 73rd Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion.<br /><br />Shot in black and white and lasting nearly four hours “Woman Who Left” was praised by Variety critic Guy Lodge as a “powerful and, by his [Diaz’s] standards, refreshingly contained moral study.”<br /><br />“This is for my country, for the Filipino people; for our struggle and the struggle of humanity,” said Diaz, as he thanked the jury headed by Sam Mendes.<br /><br />“The Woman Who Left,” is also a comeback for Charo Santos-Concio, in a remarkable return to the screen after two decades in the production realm and as media executive, host, occasional actress, television and film producer, and host of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maalaala_Mo_Kaya" title="Maalaala Mo Kaya">Maalaala Mo Kaya</a></i>, the longest-running television drama anthology in Asia. <br /><br />In the movie, for Horacia (Charo Santos-Concio), the Philippines of the late 1990s is not the same country she knew 30 years before, when she was sentenced to life in a women’s correctional facility for a murder she did not commit. She’s unexpectedly released when fellow inmate and best friend Petra (Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino) suddenly confesses that she, coerced by Horacia’s ex-boyfriend Rodrigo, framed her for the crime all those years ago.<br /><br />Working once more in rich but unromantic black and white, Lav Diaz’s cinematography is the film’s other most constant reward.<br /><br /></span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3629012486930784822&postID=7999652176449665805&target=facebook" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8VZfdyGqGxYxPWoelwmGbf0QFLIKAuJeUY4gkUrOuG0ypMqSfMCY5oXqRyQNoFBeMj4-rf3fO2HSZuuzFh6RfAhiQUOB0mhu1FMnZNnkfdasfJ-Tjd3cZm3lh88B0ouKAVkPXVh278OA/s1600/sharefb185.png" /></a> <a href="http://www.blogger.com/share-post.g?blogID=3629012486930784822&postID=7999652176449665805&target=twitter" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip3bfhc90-5xenm9-eqI_ICgI5V8KPl28Gu8oXZsvNDA_oIk8ioAazonJE38acYIiOnSDyuPWj6zn-8wCMPPY5TMVVENEoNk2PfH73eNX5qkEIkvLossHYwU848ikKXjhyr1MRuJIjmFo/s1600/sharetw185.png" /></a></div> <br />

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