Wild comedy 'Poor Things' wins top prize at Venice Festival
Top actors' awards go to U.S. stars comedy Starring Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo, the British-made film wowed festival-goers with its zany story of a woman reanimated after suicide by a mad doctor who replaces her brain with that of her unborn baby.
"The central character is Bella Baxter, an incredible creature, and she would not exist without Emma Stone, another incredible creature," said Lanthimos, whose previous films include "The Favourite" amd "The Lobster".
The top acting awards at the festival went to two U.S. stars -- Cailee Spaeny, who played the former wife of Elvis Presley in the biopic " ", and Peter Sarsgaard, who featured in the gritty family drama "Memory". headtopics.com
-- the only Asian entry among the 23 films competing for the main prize. Saturday's ceremony wrapped up the 11-day movie marathon, which drew an array of top films to Venice, but far fewer stars than normal as a long-running Hollywood actors' strike prevented many A-listers from attending.
