Venice Film Festival, Diwan: “I made this film with heart, guts and head”

Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for the French Audrey Diwan. “I am really very excited also because when we started working we mainly talked about the silence around the subject of abortion” she said, excited to tears for the award to her ‘L’Événement’, which tells of the terrible experience of a clandestine abortion. in France in 1963 when voluntary termination of pregnancy was still illegal. “Unfortunately we know what the situation is today, we know what is happening in the world and talking about abortion is very difficult. I decided to make this film because I was angry. I did this film with my heart, with my guts, with my head. “. “I wanted this film to be an experience – added the French director – I wanted to represent this journey into the skin of this young woman. Tonight I know that this journey is possible, no matter if you are a woman or a man, we are doing this journey together. “, said the director who then gave special thanks to the protagonist of the film, Anamaria Vartolomei, who called with her on the stage of the Sala Grande of the Lido of Venice. “She is not the leading actress. She is the film. You are the film. And this is our victory,” he said welcoming the actress, who was also very moved.