Switzerland Locarno Film Festival is one of the world’s longest film FestivalsKnown for its adventurous programming, exciting retrospective and nightly outdoor views in Piazza Grande, which can sit 8,000 spectators. The latter is not at all the only screening site (Granrex, which hosts most of the retrospective views, is a particularly nice cinema), but it is the place most associated with the festival.
Value World Premieres and Special Screenings of Highlights From Cannes, Sundance and other early years festivals, this year’s election of Piazza Grande includes the launch of the Mediterranean’s drama “The Birthday Party”, with Willem Dafoe and Vic Carmen Sonne; Emma Thompson-led thriller “The Dead of Winter;” Joachim Triers Cannes Prize Winner “Sentimental Value;” a 35 mm screening of Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining;” Jafar Panahis Palme d’Or Winner “It was just an accident;” And the European premiere of Bill Condon’s “Kiss of the Spider Woman.” Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Alexander Payne, Golshfefeh Farahani, four times Oscar-winning costume designer Milena Canonero (“Barry Lyndon,” The Grand Budapest Hotel “), and the aforementioned Emma Thompson is among the names that receive career awards at The Piazza.
Piazza Grande often shows more mainstream ticket price (horror movie “together”, In the lead role Alison Brie and Dave Franco are playing outdoors this year), but Locarno always has a proud to provide a less hostile platform for new filmmakers and established Auteurs whose work may not be in line with the commercial requirements or award season Hoopla in the international market. After last year’s Locarno premieres “Sleep #2” and “Eight Postcards from Utopia”, as well as 2023 Prizewinner “does not expect too much from the end of the world”, Romanian director Radu Jude returns with the nearly three hours “Dracula”, which apparently seeks to deconstruct the myths of the vampire through the use of the use of the use of the use.
Another world premiere Courting Controversy is Abdellatif Kechiches “Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due”, which finally sees the light of day after its direct predecessors, “Mectoub, my love: Intermezzo,” Never saw a release. Less controversial is “Legend of the Happy Worker”, a comic Western parable directed by Duwayne Dunham (“Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey”, “Halloweentown”), which is the last movie that has an executive producer Credit for the late David Lynch – Dunch – Dunn which is Special Dunn which is Special Dunn which is Special Dunn which is Specially Dunch – Dunch – Dunch – Dunch – Dunch – Dunch – Dunch. Heart ”
On the retrospective front, Locarno will explore British film after the 1945 war in 1960. The string, curated by Ehsan Khoshbakht in collaboration with the British Film Institute, has Ealing Comedies, Noir and more, many of them are screening from 35mm prints, “” with some of the more famous titles (“I PEEPTELS (I PEEPE TIME (” PEEPEN TIME. “
Here are 5 must-see movies from the entire program from the 78th Locarno Film Festival, which leaves from Wednesday, August 6 to Saturday 18 August.
“Blue Heron” (Dir. Sophy Romvari)
Locarnos Concorso Cineasti del Presente section is a competition space for first or other feature films, which provides a platform for adventurous and often uncompromising works from newer directors. It is an ideal starting plate for “Blue Heron”, the long -awaited feature debut by the author/director Sophy Romvari. The Canadian-Hungarian filmmaker has been an international festival favorite over the past decade with his critically acclaimed shorts, including “still processing” and “Norman Norman.”
Located on Vancouver Island in the late 1990s, “Blue Heron” explores the shortcomings in depicting memory in films. As observed through her youngest daughter as the film’s protagonist, a family of six moves to a new home triggered uneven, dangerous behavior with their oldest son.
“Celtic Utopia” (Dir. Dennis Harvey, Lars Lovén)
If last year’s “Kneecap” did a lot to get over the lively and vitality in Irish language music as both art and a necessary form of protest, Dennis Harvey and Lars Lovén’s documentary appear to expand the conversation further with a broader repetitive focus than the fictitious biopiken.
While touching the history of Irish folk music and those who keep their more traditional forms alive, this convincing film is more about its modern renaissance, especially in how artists from genres such as punk and hip hop have been influenced by Irish people’s wrestling with colonial years and partial independence.
“Dry Leaf” (Dir. Alexandre Koberidze)
In 2021, the Georgian filmmaker Alexandre Koberidze brought us “What do we see when we look at the sky?” One of the longest films in this year’s international competition at Locarno, Koberidze’s follow-up function “Dry Leaf” promises something similar unpredictable-Film creators can say that they got a three-hour movie shot on an old Sony Ericsson phone for a large festival.
When a photographer named Lisa disappears, the last known detail is of her place of residence that she had photographed rural football stages all over Georgia. Her father goes out all over the country to search for her, with Lisa’s best friend close behind to do the same. The Catch: An obviously invisible person is also part of this search. Vanessa Kirby has some superpower competition this year.
“Two seasons, two strangers” (Dir. Sho Miyake)
One of the leading Japanese directors of his generation, Sho Miyake has been an international festival favorite for a while. His 2022 drama “Small, slow but steady”, about a hearing impaired boxer, led to a best actress victory on Japan’s equivalent of Oscars for star Yukino Kishii. His latest movie, “Two Seasons, Two Strangers,” is an adaptation of manganese “Mr. Ben and his igloo, A View of the Seaside” by Yoshiharu Tsuge.
Located in the winter, the film follows a screenwriter, though in a creative decline, to a snow -covered village. There she finds a deserted guest house run by an enigmatic man, whose conversation sends her to a surprising adventure.
“With Hasan in Gaza” (Kamal Aljafari)
Last year’s “A Fidai Film” found Palestinian filmmaker and artist Kamal Aljafari’s relocation of archive fragments to add mere Palestinian visual history – recycle and re -form images and images that had been arrested from Palestine Research Center in Beirut 1982.
A similar recycling of archive films (in this case recently found mini -bands of life in Gaza from 2001), Aljafari’s latest function is intended as proof of Gaza and its people, through a cinematic reflection on time and memories from lost lives.
