SOFIA COPPOLLA WINS BEST FILM AT THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL FOR SOMEWHERE

For this year’s Venice Film Festival, the Best Film Award went to Sofia Coppola for her new film: Somewhere. The film is inspired by her experiences travelling with her dad and what it was like growing up to have a father such as Director Francis Coppola.  

Have a watch at her acceptance speech (above), the video will initiate in Italian.  But stay tuned: The Closing Ceremony becomes quite interesting as Quintin Tarantino (this year’s President of the Venice Film Festival Jury) takes the mike–attempting to make a passionate speech by making “stereotypical Italian gestures,” and uttering a few badly pronounced Italian words. 

Tarantino has then been recently accused of showing preferential treatment towards the distribution of the awards based on his personal relations with the winners: including ex-girlfriend Sofia Coppola, friend Alex de la Inglesia (having won two prizes), as well as his long time friend Monte Hellman–who accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Somewhere Trailer