The 2008 European Film Awards and the film could not refuse

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You can not really blame the voters of the European Film Academy of abandonment and frustration. There were too many good films to choose from, this year, at least for the appointment, by some miracle, all the sophisticated art house slag, a decision that has generally eliminated. And incidentally, this film was a perfect combination: a best-selling book by Roberto Saviano bold, exciting script, a simple and professional director and a great actor, but really, now, 5Efies?

The Grand Prix was the European film of the year and Gomorrah were some real heavy weights: Il Divo, the esoteric but fascinating film former Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti in Italy, the Festival de Cannes Palme d'class, Guillermo del Taurus the production, the thriller The Orphanage, Spook, Waltz with Bashir attacks innovative and crowd pleasing Happy Go Lucky. Gomorrah came to the fore, and that was good.

But then a bit 'of watersmall intestine. The European Prize for Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah was a surprise because I had to participate in Philo-Italian voters with the highly stylized and imaginative work by Paolo Sorrentino for Il Divo. Sorrentino's address was impressive, but perhaps the movie, the open part of the campaign was not enough voters have seen. European player was much easier to predict, it is Toni Servillo, for his work both in Gomorrah and Il Divo, but even here, competition from MichaelFassbender for his impressive performance of hunger has given him a run for their money, and Jürgen Vogel CW (Wave) is a great achievement, which can unfortunately get lost in the confusion. Then there's the double blow of Thure Lindhardt and Mads Mikkelsen and burnt lemon, who starred Danish could give rise together to meet the Copenhagen headquarters of this year's awards. But their performance was not exceptional, and do not offer muchThe competition, followed closely by Elmar PPS, which closed March with its role in the cherry blossom (cherry blossom) and James McAvoy in Atonement.

So the only way to explain the rest, is dynamic. The herd mentality that Europeans are famous. The team of authors of the film Gomorrah committee had something with his script on the tortuous self-examination Dream Waltz with Bashir and poetry boiling Il Divo. Another surprise was the winner of Gomorrah, Marco OnoratoCameraman of the year, sweeping epic about the Mongols, the dark and sinister (although perhaps classical) orphanage and artistic truth (and ubiquitous mobile) Il Divo.

Fortunately, there were classes in other films left, have the opportunity. Actress Kristen Scott Thomas has won the European Community and the enigmatic ex-convict in a long time ago that I love you all have a role in French. This was also a theme discussed: Albanian Arta Dobroshi as disorientedMigrant workers in Belgium, in the silence of Lorna, Hiam Abbass, owner of the famous Palestinian cause in Lemon Tree, Ursula Werner, senior women with multiple needs in a cloud of great comic shtick and Sally Hawkins for Happy Go Lucky, and Belen Rueda Engine shtick made by the spirits of the orphanage. My only regret is that no place was more for Barbara Sarafian for its excellent performance in his left Moscow, Belgium (on AanrijdingMoscow).

Other awards went to Max Richter Waltz with Bashir European artists and a well deserved award European Discovery 2008 Against Hunger, directed by Steve McQueen. Magdalena Biedrzycka won the Excellence Award 1940 for his costume designs in Katyn and the curvature of this group of winners to feel good was Judi Dench, who won the Lifetime Achievement Award.

In general, the list of candidates was very satisfactory, although the end result was a little 'sore. EnoughThese films were worthy of recognition, including the weight of the delta fatal pileup was a candidate for the design of the production. But there was a nomination for sound design O'Horten. Really? O'Horten? The film pilots impassive, sleepwalking into a comedy as dry as the Sahara? There is just no sound in this film at all? I think every party has a pooper ... However, it was a good year for European cinema, and reflect the voters in their decisions. AWOLThis year was just cheese all the favorites of the festival, five minutes of someone walking toward the car on a street and ends with the same person staring open sunrise to sunset. So if there is a small Efies addition, if the voters of EFA to increase this price at a step closer to all major European award the most important events of the year.