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VENICE 2011 Italy

Bellocchio to get Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

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Italian director Marco Bellocchio will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 68th Venice International Film Festival (August 31 - September 10). "With each new film, Marco Bellocchio leads you to yet another destination, different from those you thought you had already reached and discovered," said the Mostra’s artistic director Marco Müller, who went on to call the filmmaker "a tireless traveler – carrying and steering ideas, and exploring the shifting boundaries between himself, cinema and history".

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The director of Fists in the Pocket has been on the Lido several times, winning the Special Jury Prize in 1967 for his second feature film, China is Near. In 1999 he was in the jury over which Emir Kusturica presided. In 2003 he presented, in competition, Good Morning, Night [+see also:
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To go along with the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement award to Bellocchio, the festival will also screen a unique director's cut of In the Name of the Father (1971), which at 90 minutes is shorter than the 105-minute version that was released theatrically. "It wasn’t an obsession,” said the director, "yet over the past 40 years the conviction that In the Name of the Father had not yet found its final form came back to me time and again".

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(Translated from Italian)

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