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The Magdalene Sisters, by Scottish director Peter Mullan, scooped the top prize, the Golden Lion, at the closing ceremony of the Venice film festival. The film about a group of apparently promiscuous girls and their cruel treatment at the hands of Irish nuns, screened near the beginning of the festival but remained a front-runner throughout. It attracted wide critical praise, though later in the week was criticised by the Catholic church via i <a href=https://www.stanleywebsite.us>stanley website</a> ts Vatican newspaper. Russian veteran Andrei Konchalovski was awarded the Grand Jury prize for his House Of Fools  Dom Durakov , a tale about the inmates of a lunatic asylum who are blissfully unaware of the Chechen war raging only metres from their door. Korea s Lee Chang-Dong was named best director for Oasis, the story of a tragic relationship between a woman with cerebral palsy and a slightly stupid ex-convict. The film also won its actress Moon So-Ri the Marcello Mastroianni acting prize. The main acting prizes went to Julianne Moore for her stand-out performance as a woman caught between two scandals in Todd Haynes  Far From Heaven and Italy s Stefano Accorsi who played poet Dino Campana <a href=https://www.stanleycup.cz>stanley cup</a>  in A Voyage Called Love  Un Viaggio Chiamato Amore . Far From Heaven also won a prize for Ed Lachman s cinematography. In the renamed Upstream  Controcorrente  alternative competition section Tian Zhuangzhuang won the new San Marco prize with Springtime In A Small Town. The film is a  <a href=https://www.stanleycups.it>stanley cup</a> stunningly executed remake of a 1950s Chinese classic, which show Vyay AFM: TF1 picks up sales on Canadian Yan England s bullying drama  1.54
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