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‘Misericordia,’ ‘They Will Be Dust,’ ‘Stranger Eyes’ Take Top Prizes at the Valladolid International Film Festival
The Valladolid Film Festival wrapped on Saturday as the event known locally as Seminci gilded one of its most international lineups yet.
Playing Cannes Premiere, “Misericordia,” which scooped Valladolid’s best picture Golden Spike and its screenplay trophy, was hailed by Variety as a “darkly comic backwoods fable of pansexual desire and small-town sociopathy” which marks a “welcome re-embrace of the streamlined murdery perversities of his terrific ‘Stranger by the Lake. Silver Spikes went to Yeo Siew Hua’s “Stranger Eyes,” a Venice competition player and Golden Horse Film Festival standout, and euthanasia musical “They Will Be Dust” – which also won a mention for the performances of Alfredo Castro and Angela Molina and celebrated its Spanish premiere after winning Toronto’s prestigious Platform for directors hitting full stride in mid-career, and sparking critical acclaim. In “Stranger Eyes,” an “elegant, haunted thriller about voyeurism in a time of surveillance,” “the Singaporean writer-director’s third feature uses genre trappings as a mere jumping-off point for a moving, moody reflection on social isolation and alienation,” Variety wrote.
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