Venice: Aronofsky’s “The Wrestler” wins Golden Lion

September 6th, 2008 by adam arseneau · No Comments · Awards, Film Festival

capt9dabb283c3464ba7a659dc7e5ab25cb2aptopix_italy_venice_film_festival_xven211.jpg Yahoo News is reporting that Darren Aronofsky’s The Wrestler has won the top award at the Venice Film Festival, the coveted Golden Lion. The film stars Mickey Rourke as a wrestler forced into retirement who strikes up a romance with an aging stripper (Marisa Tomei).

This is of particular interest to this humble Judge as I’ll be seeing The Wrestler in a few short days at TIFF (hooray!) and will have a review up next week. We’ll let you know if The Wrestler is all the Golden Lion’s cracked up to be. Based on what I’ve been hearing about the film, it definitely will be.

(via Yahoo)

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