Venice jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal defended the decision to award the Golden Lion to May el-Toukhy’s ‘Woman Unknown,’ saying the film won on its own merits and not because it was directed by a woman.
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Jury president says the jury picked a film on merit. Stop the presses. Of course she said that. What else — “yes, we handed it over because of chromosomes”? Nobody wins a Golden Lion and then hears the jury admit otherwise. The real scoop: water is wet, and Venice needed a press release to prove it.
