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VENICE (AFP) – Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi made history with his Oscar-winning Drive My Car. For his follow-up, he has retreated into nature. Evil Does Not Exist, which got its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival last Monday, has again impressed critics with its tale of a city-based corporation threatening a pristine rural village […]

Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi has returned to Japan from the Venice International Film Festival where he won the Silver Lion award for his film “Evil Does Not Exist.”

THE EIGHTIETH EDITION of the Venice Film Festival was stacked, strong, and, gratifyingly, a place where ambitious work was rewarded rather than the few white elephants. With awards chatter (somewhat) muted as the SAG-AFTRA strikes kept actors away, there was no choice but to pay attention to the films. The jury, a formidable group led by Damien Chazelle, awarded the Golden Lion to Poor Things—Yorgos Lanthimos’s gloriously ribald, eye-boggling voyage of discovery that, in its first minutes, would seem a long shot for the top prize. There was a bizarro-world aspect to the unanimous acclaim f...