‘Certain Women’ wins London honors
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WRITER-DIRECTOR Kelly Reichardt’s spare and subtle Montana drama “Certain Women” has won the best-picture prize at the London Film Festival, while “12 Years a Slave” director Steve McQueen received a major career award.
A jury headed by Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari praised the masterful imagery and quiet modesty of Reichardt’s film about three women, played by Kristen Stewart, Michelle Williams and Laura Dern, struggling with life in a chilly small town. The director is known for moving, minimalist dramas.
The festival wrapped up yesterday with “Free Fire,” a 1970s-set comic thriller by British director Ben Wheatley.
McQueen, a filmmaker and Turner Prize-winning video artist, was presented with the British Film Institute Fellowship — the organization’s highest honor — by Michael Fassbender. The Irish actor has appeared in all three of the director’s feature films “Hunger,” “Shame” and “12 Years a Slave.”
Fassbender called McQueen, whose movies have tackled subjects including starvation, addiction and slavery, “a rarity — both a sensitive and a dangerous man.”
McQueen, 47, said “there’s only two things I’m sure about: One, I’m black ... Two, I’m a Londoner.”
He credited Britain’s previous system of free higher education for giving him the freedom to “explore, experiment and make mistakes.” Students now face thousands of pounds a year in tuition fees. “It seems that freedom is being slowly eroded,” McQueen said.
The 60-year-old London festival has sought this year to encourage diversity in the film industry, opening with Amma Asante’s “A United Kingdom.” A tale of interracial love and politics inspired by real events, it marked the first time that a black female director has held the prestigious opening slot at the festival.
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