'Chinese Takeaway' wins Rome's top prize

ROME - Argentine hit comedy "Chinese Takeaway," by Sebastian Borensztein, was the large champion in the sixth Rome Film Festival, which wrapped on an optimistic note Friday despite a little of bickering earlier. Written by Disney in Argentina, where it has been a smash, this cool laffer starring Ricardo Darin ("The Key to themInch) like a Buenos Aires retailer who helps out a Chinese immigrant, scooped both Rome's jerk for the best film and also the large metropolitan fest's audience award. "Takeaway," that has been offered broadly by Madrid-based Latido Films, goes in Italia via Archibald. The jury, headed by Ennio Morricone and composed of Debra Winger and Susanne Bier, gave its grand jury award to Gallic helmer Claude Miller's "Watch When They Dance," starring Italy's Maya Sansa, as the special jury jerk visited Fred Schepisi's "The Attention from the Storm." The actress jerk visited Noomi Rapace on her role like a mother attempting to safeguard her boy from an allegedly abusive father in mental thriller "Babycall," by Norwegian helmer Friend Seltaune. Gallic thesp Guillaume Canet scooped the actor prize for his role like a prepare with credit issues in Cedric Kahn's "A Much Better Existence." The jerk for original score visited German composer Ralf Wengenmayr for Communism spoof "Hotel Lux," by helmer Leander Haussman. "Girl Model," by U.S. helmers David Redmon and Ashley Sabin, by which U.S, and Russian model scouts trawl remote Siberian towns for youthful women appropriate for modelling jobs in Japan, required top docu jerk in Rome's Extra Section. Iranian gay-designed drama "Circumstance" by Maryam Keshavarz and tyro Gallic helmer Emmanuelle Millet's teen drama "Twiggy" tied for Rome fest's emerging new talent prize. Rome's Alice within the City section devoted to kiddie fare saw "En el nombre p la hija," a humor-laced family-drama occur the seventies from Ecuador's Tania Hermida, go ahead and take under-13 prize, while Belgian helmer Bavo Defune's gay coming-of-ager "Noordzee Texas" won within the over-13 category. Attendance was up a lot more than 4% this season, with 123,000 tickets offered in the Eternal City extravaganza. Event came fire from Italo culture czar Giancarlo Galan who reiterated he sights it as being antagonistic to Venice, which however isn't considered that a threat. Meanwhile, Rome's Business Street mart the coming year is going to be moving to clever digs in Rome's Maxxi contempo art museum, boosting its profile like a small but significant European industry event. Contact Nick Vivarelli at nvivarelli@gmail.com