Send feedback Mistakes of the 20 th century We are interested in your experience using the site. All appears to be going swimmingly, apart from in the storylines of the strongest films in the festival.
In Locarno, the waters of Lake Maggiore have become as warm as a bath, and the official car of the festival, proudly displayed on the lawns next to the Piazza Grande, is benefiting from the automatic watering system. The "freshness" of the competition, if you can call it that, is inversely proportional to the surrounding heat. Read more Subscribers only Success of 'Nope' confirms upswing at US box office The jury is chaired by Swiss producer Michel Merkt ( Synonyms, by Nadav Lapid and Toni Erdmann by Maren Ade), and includes, among others, the filmmaker Alain Guiraudie, whose work is adventurous and magnetic ( L'Inconnu du lac, Rester vertical, Viens je t'emmène, ). There are no international stars on the jury, either, to present the award. These include Patricia Mazuy ( Bowling Saturn) and Sylvie Verheyde ( Stella est amoureuse Stella is in Love), the Lebanese director Abbas Fahdel ( Tales of the Purple House), and Alexander Sokurov ( Skazka), from Russia. Indeed, among the 17 feature films competing for the Golden Leopard, only a handful are by "established" directors. Nazzaro – former general delegate of the Critics' Week at the Venice Film Festival – is following in the footsteps of his iconic predecessors, Olivier Père (2010-2012), Carlo Chatrian (2012-2018) and Lili Hinstin (2018-2020) by welcoming newcomers and picking up films that were rejected at Cannes or elsewhere. Who has heard of Carlos Conceiçao, the Portuguese director born in 1979 who created the stunning Naçao Valente ( Tommy Guns), except perhaps those who had followed his earlier footsteps from Locarno to Cannes? Has anyone ever seen a film by Azerbaijani Hilal Baydarov, or the Indian director Mahesh Narayanan, from Kerala? What about the German visual artist Helena Wittmann or the Costa Rican-born filmmaker Valentina Maurel?Īppointed in 2020, Locarno's new artistic director, Giona A. The international competition at the 75 th Locarno International Film Festival, which takes place from August 3 to 13, has turned into a guessing game for critics. Subscribers only Armand (Achille Reggiani) and Leïla Muse in "Bowling Saturn", by Patricia Mazuy.
The international competition at the 75th edition of the Swiss event gives prominent billing to new authors and darker works.īy Clarisse Fabre Published on Augat 19h30, updated at 07h36 on August 10, 2022 Locarno Film Festival provides chills despite the heat wave