Location | Venice, Italy |
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Founded | 1932 |
Awards | Golden Lion: Vagabond |
Festival date | 26 August – 6 September 1985 |
Website | Website |
The 42nd annual Venice International Film Festival was held on 26 August to 6 September 1985. [1] [2]
Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi was the Jury President of the main competition. The Golden Lion winner was Vagabond directed by Agnès Varda.
The following people comprised the 1985 jury: [3]
English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
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The Guardian | Bekçi | Ali Özgentürk | Turkey, West Germany |
Dust | Marion Hänsel | Belgium, France | |
Glissando | Mircea Daneliuc | Romania | |
Family Without a Dinner Table | Shokutaku no nai ie | Masaki Kobayashi | Japan |
The Feather Fairy | Perinbaba | Juraj Jakubisko | Czechoslovakia, West Germany |
Forget Mozart | Vergeßt Mozart | Miloslav Luther | West Germany, Czechoslovakia |
Legend | Ridley Scott | United States | |
Life Is Beautiful | Zivot je lep | Boro Draskovic | Yugoslavia |
The Lightship | Jerzy Skolimowski | United States | |
Mother Ebe | Mamma Ebe | Carlo Lizzani | Italy |
No Man's Land | Alain Tanner | Switzerland, France, West Germany, United Kingdom | |
Planet Parade | Парад планет | Vadim Abdrashitov | Soviet Union |
The Lost Paradise | Los paraísos perdidos | Basilio Martín Patino | Spain |
Tracks in the Snow | Pervola, sporen in de sneeuw | Orlow Seunke | Netherlands, Norway |
Police | Maurice Pialat | France | |
Prizzi's Honor | John Huston | United States | |
Requiem for a Spanish Peasant | Réquiem por un campesino español | Francesc Betriu | Spain |
The Satin Slipper | O Sapato de Cetim | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal, France |
Stone Years | Petrina hronia | Pantelis Voulgaris | Greece |
The Tango of Our Childhood | Մեր մանկության տանգոն / Танго нашего детства | Albert Mkrtchyan | Soviet Union |
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel | Tangos, el exilio de Gardel | Fernando Solanas | Argentina, France |
Vagabond | Sans toit ni loi | Agnès Varda | France |
Woman of Wonders | La donna delle meraviglie | Alberto Bevilacqua | Italy |
The following feature films were selected to be screened as In Competition for this section: [4]
Vagabond is a 1985 French drama film directed by Agnès Varda, featuring Sandrine Bonnaire. It tells the story of a young woman, a vagabond, who wanders through the Languedoc-Roussillon wine country one winter. The film premiered at the 42nd Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. Vagabond was nominated for four César Awards, with Bonnaire winning Best Actress. The film was the 36th highest-grossing film of the year with a total of 1,080,143 admissions in France.
Sandrine Bonnaire is a French actress, film director and screenwriter who has appeared in more than 40 films. She won the César Award for Most Promising Actress for À Nos Amours (1983), the César Award for Best Actress for Vagabond (1985) and the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for La Cérémonie (1995). Her other films include Under the Sun of Satan (1987), Monsieur Hire (1989), East/West (1999) and The Final Lesson (2015).
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