Banderas and Penelope Cruz's 'Official Competition' is in official competition for this year's coveted Golden Lion but Banderas’ first time in official competition at Venice was with his directorial debut, 'Crazy in Alabama,' starring his former wife, Melanie Griffith.
Based on the 1993 Mark Childress novel, the 1999 comedy drama was set against the civil rights movement in 1965 and follows the escape of a mom of seven in a bad marriage and dead-end existence. Griffith plays the mom, Lucille, who at the start of the film poisons her abusive husband, decapitates him and carries his head around in a Tupperware container. The film also features Meat Loaf as a redneck sheriff who taunts Black protesters demanding to use a “whites-only” public swimming pool.
But despite a smattering of other positive notices, critics generally found the whole endeavor hard to swallow. After the Venice screening, the audience responded “with an equal measure of booing and hisses,” reported Sept. 10, 1999. The film, budgeted at $15 million , grossed only $2 million for Columbia Pictures and put Griffith in the running for a Razzie for worst actress .
This story first appeared in The Hollywood Reporter’s Sept. 3 daily issue at the Venice International Film Festival.
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