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Memoir of Mexico City wins top prize at Venice Film Festival
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VENICE, the world's oldest and most elegant film festival, reached the age of 75 this year in perfect shape.
At the closing ceremony on Sunday, the prestigious Golden Lion went to Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma, a black-and-white drama drawn from the director’s memories of growing up in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
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