Nyhed: Tarantino anklages for snyd under Venice Film...

Tarantino anklages for snyd under Venice Film Festival

Venner får alle priserne.

Den italienske presse er ikke tilfreds med, hvordan de største priser under Venice Film Festival er blevet uddelt, og nu bliver Quentin Tarantino anklaget for at foretrække sine venner fremfor andre kandidater.

Sofia Coppola, Tarantinos tidligere kæreste, vandt festivalens hovedpris, den Gyldne Løve, for hendes drama "Somewhere". Samtidig vandt Tarantinos gamle ven Alex de la Iglesia to priser, heriblandt Sølvløven for bedste instruktør, ligesom Tarantinos mentor, Monte Hellman, vandt en speciel ærespris, som selve juryen har skabt.

"The presidency of Quentin Tarantino runs the risk of turning into the most obvious conflict of interest possible if you remember that 'Somewhere' and [Hellman's] 'Road to Nowhere' were charming and interesting in their own ways, but nothing more than that," skriver Paolo Mereghetti, filmkritiker hos Correre della Sera, Italiens største avis.

Det er ikke lang tid siden, at Tarantino faktisk udtalte sig om at favoritisere. Noget, han ikke er decideret modstander af.

"I remember talking to him [Hellman] in 1992 at the Sundance Film Festival, when I was there with my film 'Reservoir Dogs'," siger han. "I actually had a friend on the jury and he told me that a friend on the jury is your worst enemy as they would be too embarrassed to give you a prize. I wasn't going to let anything like that effect me."