Sitges. Wrap-up.

That's all, folks. The Sitges Film Festival has just announced the winners of this year's edition, with the awards for Best Motion Picture and Best Screenplay going to David Slade's Hard Candy. This courageous film is a drama-thriller hybrid about a 32-year-old man who takes home a 14-year-old girl he's met on the net.

Like last year, when he picked up the award for Breaking News, Johnny To has won the Best Director Award - this time for Election, a thriller about a democratic election in the (under)world of organised crime. Lee Kan-cheng picked up the Best Actor Award for his performance as a porn actor in The Wayward Cloud, which also received the Special Jury Award ("for its bold aesthetic and moral discourse against sexual alienation") and the Jose Luis Guarner Critics Award. The Best Actress Award was reasonably presented to Lee Yeong-ae for her role in Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.

The full list of awards is here. See you later. Keep cool.

Posted by dwhudson at October 17, 2005 8:28 AM