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    20 greatest Venice film festival Golden Lion winners – ranked!

    Aug 10, 2023 5 minutes

    20. Lust, Caution (2007)

    Ang Lee already had a Golden Lion for Brokeback Mountain when he won another for this slow-burning espionage drama (featuring headline-hogging sex scenes between Tony Leung and Tang Wei) about a patriotic theatre group in wartime Hong Kong plotting to bring down the collaborationist Chinese government. One resonant line – “If you pay attention, nothing is trivial” – feels like a manifesto for cinema or art or life itself.

    19. Three Colours: Blue (1993)

    Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 10-part Dekalog series was his most profound work, but his Three Colours trilogy (celebrating liberty, equality and fraternity) is a force to be reckoned with, not least because of Juliette Binoche’s performance as a woman coming back from the brink after the death of her family to interrogate the life she lost.

    18. Happening (2021)

    Watched in the light of Roe v Wade’s reversal, Audrey Diwan’s about illegal abortion in 60s France feels doubly urgent. But when it won at

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