Akiplėša (Toxic), the feature debut from Lithuanian writer and director Saulė Bliuvaitė that explores the human body and mysterious model agencies, is the winner of the Locarno Film Festival’s 2024 international competition, which was honored with the Pardo d’Oro, or Golden Leopard, in the Swiss town on Saturday. Locarno77 organizers called the movie “an incisive portrayal of teenage girls and the crushing expectations imposed upon them.”
Meanwhile, the special jury prize went to Iraq-born Austrian auteur Kurdwin Ayub for her sophomore fiction feature Mond (Moon). The film follows former martial artist Sarah who leaves Austria to train three sisters from a wealthy Jordanian family. “It’s all about sisters, no matter where they come from, and about cages, no matter where they are,” according to Ayub.
Lithuania, which has a population of about three million people but was represented by two features in this year’s Locarno international competition,...
Meanwhile, the special jury prize went to Iraq-born Austrian auteur Kurdwin Ayub for her sophomore fiction feature Mond (Moon). The film follows former martial artist Sarah who leaves Austria to train three sisters from a wealthy Jordanian family. “It’s all about sisters, no matter where they come from, and about cages, no matter where they are,” according to Ayub.
Lithuania, which has a population of about three million people but was represented by two features in this year’s Locarno international competition,...
- 8/17/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Mélanie Laurent is Marie Antoinette and Guillaume Canet her husband Louis XVI in Italian director Gianluca Jodice’s Le Déluge (The Flood), which opened the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival on Wednesday night in the Swiss town’s Piazza Grande, which seats 8,000 people during the fest.
On Thursday afternoon, the two stars, along with their director, met members of the press to discuss the movie, which is set in 1792 when the two main characters and their children were arrested and imprisoned in a chateau in Paris, awaiting their trial.
THR‘s Locarno review called the movie “an intriguing palace drama chronicling the last days of France’s ultimate royal couple,” also highlighting that “nuanced performances from both Canet and Laurent help to make the famous couple more than mere caricatures.”
The stars on Thursday shared how they got into their characters and their mindset. Actress-writer-director Laurent (Inglourious Basterds,...
On Thursday afternoon, the two stars, along with their director, met members of the press to discuss the movie, which is set in 1792 when the two main characters and their children were arrested and imprisoned in a chateau in Paris, awaiting their trial.
THR‘s Locarno review called the movie “an intriguing palace drama chronicling the last days of France’s ultimate royal couple,” also highlighting that “nuanced performances from both Canet and Laurent help to make the famous couple more than mere caricatures.”
The stars on Thursday shared how they got into their characters and their mindset. Actress-writer-director Laurent (Inglourious Basterds,...
- 8/9/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gestern Abend fiel der Startschuss des 77. Locarno Film Festival in der gewohnten traumhaften Kulisse des Piazza Grande. Die Stars des Eröffnungsfilms „Le Déluge”, Mélanie Laurent und Guillaume Canet, wurden mit dem Excellence Award Davide Campari ausgezeichnet. Zur Eröffnung sprach die Schweizer Kulturministerin Elisabeth Baume-Schneider.
Die Piazza Grande (Foto: Locarno Film Festival)
Gestern Abend wurde die 77. Ausgabe des Locarno Film Festival durch die Schweizer Kulturministerin Elisabeth Baume-Schneider eröffnet. Eröffnungsfilm war das italienisch-französische Historiendrama „Le Déluge“ von Gianluca Jodice gezeigt. Im Rahmen der Eröffnungsveranstaltung wurden die beiden Hauptdarsteller, die französischen Stars Mélanie Laurent und Guillaume Canet, mit dem Excellence Award Davide Campari ausgezeichnet.
Das 77. Locarno Film Festival ist die erste Edition unter der Ägide von Maja Hoffmann als Festival-Präsidentin – und die vierte unter der Künstlerischen Direktion von Giona A. Nazzaro. Baume-Schneider nannte das traditionsreiche Festival „eine kulturelle Signatur für das Tessin und die Schweiz“, mit der Piazza Grande – dem wunderbarsten Open-Air-Kino der Welt – als Schaufenster einer „weltoffenen,...
Die Piazza Grande (Foto: Locarno Film Festival)
Gestern Abend wurde die 77. Ausgabe des Locarno Film Festival durch die Schweizer Kulturministerin Elisabeth Baume-Schneider eröffnet. Eröffnungsfilm war das italienisch-französische Historiendrama „Le Déluge“ von Gianluca Jodice gezeigt. Im Rahmen der Eröffnungsveranstaltung wurden die beiden Hauptdarsteller, die französischen Stars Mélanie Laurent und Guillaume Canet, mit dem Excellence Award Davide Campari ausgezeichnet.
Das 77. Locarno Film Festival ist die erste Edition unter der Ägide von Maja Hoffmann als Festival-Präsidentin – und die vierte unter der Künstlerischen Direktion von Giona A. Nazzaro. Baume-Schneider nannte das traditionsreiche Festival „eine kulturelle Signatur für das Tessin und die Schweiz“, mit der Piazza Grande – dem wunderbarsten Open-Air-Kino der Welt – als Schaufenster einer „weltoffenen,...
- 8/8/2024
- by Barbara Schuster
- Spot - Media & Film
The famous French saying, “Après moi, le déluge” (“After me, the flood”) has often been attributed to Louis Xv, who used it to express his total disinterest in what would happen to the world after his own demise. If things fell apart, well, too bad. And yet it’s the king’s own grandson, Louis XVI, who was ousted from power during the French Revolution and died on the guillotine, to whom the quote is most applicable. His death, as well as that of his wife, Marie-Antoinette, marked the end of the monarchy and the height of the Reign of Terror. It was also the start of one of the first modern democracies, with all its grandeurs and flaws.
The unpleasant final days of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are the subject of The Flood (Le Déluge), by Italian director Gianluca Jodice (The Bad Poet), who focuses solely on the period...
The unpleasant final days of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette are the subject of The Flood (Le Déluge), by Italian director Gianluca Jodice (The Bad Poet), who focuses solely on the period...
- 8/7/2024
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Locarno is getting ready for a flood – in more than one sense! The 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival is promising a veritable flood of arthouse movies. And it will open on Wednesday night with the world premiere of The Flood, which will take the 8,000-strong audience of the Swiss town’s Piazza Grande on a journey into French history.
Italian director and co-writer Gianluca Jodice’s Le Déluge (The Flood) features Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet as none other than Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. But the film is set in 1792 when the two and their children were arrested and imprisoned in a chateau in Paris, awaiting their trial.
The Locarno audience is in for a double treat. In addition to getting to enjoy the world premiere in a gorgeous setting, it will also see the two French stars of the movie receiving the Excellence Award Davide Campari...
Italian director and co-writer Gianluca Jodice’s Le Déluge (The Flood) features Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet as none other than Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI. But the film is set in 1792 when the two and their children were arrested and imprisoned in a chateau in Paris, awaiting their trial.
The Locarno audience is in for a double treat. In addition to getting to enjoy the world premiere in a gorgeous setting, it will also see the two French stars of the movie receiving the Excellence Award Davide Campari...
- 8/6/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival returns this week with what is perhaps the strongest lineup festival director Giona A. Nazzaro has conjured up during his short but impactful four-year tenure. Across the festival’s official competitions, you can find new works by arthouse leaders like Hong Sang-soo, Wang Bing, Radu Jude, and Ben Rivers — all world premieres. Hollywood will also be present on the Piazza Grande with an expansive retrospective titled The Lady with the Torch set to be mounted at the fest to celebrate the centennial of Columbia Pictures.
Neapolitan filmmaker Gianluca Jodice’s latest feature The Flood, a historical drama about the last days of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’s reign opens the festival on August 7. The film stars Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet, who will be handed one of the festival’s career achievement awards. The festival will also honor Jane Campion, Shah Rukh Khan, Alfonso Cuarón,...
Neapolitan filmmaker Gianluca Jodice’s latest feature The Flood, a historical drama about the last days of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette’s reign opens the festival on August 7. The film stars Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet, who will be handed one of the festival’s career achievement awards. The festival will also honor Jane Campion, Shah Rukh Khan, Alfonso Cuarón,...
- 8/5/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
New films from well-known auteurs such as Hong Sang-soo, Wang Bing and Ben Rivers will compete for the Golden Leopard against potential discoveries by newcomers and lesser known helmers in a competition that Locarno Film Festival artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro has called “a mosaic that reflects the multiple forms of contemporary cinema.”
Interestingly, all of the four first works in the 17-title competition are directed by women.
Nazzaro spoke to Variety about his choices for what looks like his most ambitious edition.
Talk to me about your opener, Italian director Gianluca Iodice’s “Le déluge” on the last days of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette before their execution, with France’s Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet, who will be honored.
That was a no-brainer. It’s a hotly anticipated film, the second work of an Italian director who made a strong debut with a very personal and powerful film about [Italian protofascist poet] Gabriele d’Annunzio.
Interestingly, all of the four first works in the 17-title competition are directed by women.
Nazzaro spoke to Variety about his choices for what looks like his most ambitious edition.
Talk to me about your opener, Italian director Gianluca Iodice’s “Le déluge” on the last days of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette before their execution, with France’s Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet, who will be honored.
That was a no-brainer. It’s a hotly anticipated film, the second work of an Italian director who made a strong debut with a very personal and powerful film about [Italian protofascist poet] Gabriele d’Annunzio.
- 7/12/2024
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Taking place August 7-17, the official selection for the 77th Locarno Film Festival has been unveiled, featuring a stellar-looking slate of highly anticipated films. Highlights include Hong Sangsoo’s second feature of the year, By the Stream, starring Kim Minhee, Kwon Haehyo, and Cho Yunhee; Ramon Zürcher’s The Sparrow in the Chimney, Wang Bing’s second part of his Youth trilogy, Youth (Hard Times), as well as new films by Radu Jude, Bertrand Mandico, Courtney Stephens, Ben Rivers, Gürcan Keltek, Denis Côté, Kevin Jerome Everson, Fabrice Du Welz (featuring Abel Ferrara!), and many more. Also of particular note is the world premiere of Tarsem Singh’s restored cut of The Fall, which features a slightly different edit as he recently noted.
Giona A. Nazzaro, Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival said, “We are very excited and happy with our selection for Locarno’s 77th edition, which we believe...
Giona A. Nazzaro, Artistic Director of the Locarno Film Festival said, “We are very excited and happy with our selection for Locarno’s 77th edition, which we believe...
- 7/10/2024
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Locarno has revealed this year’s official selection.
Known auteurs Hong Sang-soo (“By the Stream”) and Wang Bing (“Youth (Hard Times)”) will now battle it out in the official selection, which will welcome 17 world premieres. Italy will be represented by Sara Fgaier’s “Sulla Terra Leggeri” and “Luce,” directed by Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino. Ala Eddine Slim’s “Agora” will also be shown, as well as Ben Rivers’ “Bogancloch,” “Cent Mille Milliards” by Virgil Vernier and Saulė Bliuvaitė’s “Toxic.”
“We are very excited and happy with our selection, which we believe represents the best of contemporary filmmaking. We have taken special care in highlighting those works that, while broadening the possibilities of cinema, are also consciously trying to spark a more meaningful conversation with the audience,” stated artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro, adding that the fest “continues to offer itself up as a platform for intersectional dialogue.”
The...
Known auteurs Hong Sang-soo (“By the Stream”) and Wang Bing (“Youth (Hard Times)”) will now battle it out in the official selection, which will welcome 17 world premieres. Italy will be represented by Sara Fgaier’s “Sulla Terra Leggeri” and “Luce,” directed by Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino. Ala Eddine Slim’s “Agora” will also be shown, as well as Ben Rivers’ “Bogancloch,” “Cent Mille Milliards” by Virgil Vernier and Saulė Bliuvaitė’s “Toxic.”
“We are very excited and happy with our selection, which we believe represents the best of contemporary filmmaking. We have taken special care in highlighting those works that, while broadening the possibilities of cinema, are also consciously trying to spark a more meaningful conversation with the audience,” stated artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro, adding that the fest “continues to offer itself up as a platform for intersectional dialogue.”
The...
- 7/10/2024
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival will debut 17 world premieres, including new works by Hong Sang-soo and Wang Bing, as part of its 2024 competition program. This year’s event runs from August 7 – 17.
The festival announced its competition lineups this morning. The Hong Sang-soo feature is titled Suyoocheon (By The Stream) and stars Kim Minhee, Kwon Haehyo, and Cho Yunhee. The Wang Bing feature is a France, Luxembourg, and Netherlands co-production titled Hard Times. Scroll down to see the full Locarno competition lineup, which also includes new titles from Ben Rivers, Mar Coll, and Christoph Hochhäusler.
The festival today also announced that French acting veterans Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet will receive the event’s honorary Excellence Award Davide Campari at the opening ceremony on August 7. Previous recipients of the award include Riz Ahmed and Aaron Taylor Johnson.
Locarno’s separate Piazza Grande lineup features 18 titles, including Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig,...
The festival announced its competition lineups this morning. The Hong Sang-soo feature is titled Suyoocheon (By The Stream) and stars Kim Minhee, Kwon Haehyo, and Cho Yunhee. The Wang Bing feature is a France, Luxembourg, and Netherlands co-production titled Hard Times. Scroll down to see the full Locarno competition lineup, which also includes new titles from Ben Rivers, Mar Coll, and Christoph Hochhäusler.
The festival today also announced that French acting veterans Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet will receive the event’s honorary Excellence Award Davide Campari at the opening ceremony on August 7. Previous recipients of the award include Riz Ahmed and Aaron Taylor Johnson.
Locarno’s separate Piazza Grande lineup features 18 titles, including Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig,...
- 7/10/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland has unveiled an eclectic lineup for its 77th edition, taking place Aug. 7-17. The fest will screen 225 total films, including 104 world premieres, five international premieres and some debut features, including new films from such directors as Hong Sang-soo, Spanish actress Paz Vega and Radu Jude. Gianluca Jodice’s Le Déluge, starring Mélanie Laurent and Guillaume Canet, will also world premiere and open the fest, with Locarno on Wednesday unveiling that the two French stars will receive the Excellence Award Davide Campari on the fest’s opening night.
Beyond new fare, some of this season’s film festival favorites and classics will screen in Locarno’s main Piazza Grande section, taking place on the town’s main square set up with 8,000 seats. Films to be screened include Cannes hits such as Laetitia Dosch’s Dog on Trial, Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig,...
Beyond new fare, some of this season’s film festival favorites and classics will screen in Locarno’s main Piazza Grande section, taking place on the town’s main square set up with 8,000 seats. Films to be screened include Cannes hits such as Laetitia Dosch’s Dog on Trial, Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed of the Sacred Fig,...
- 7/10/2024
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Neun deutsche Produktionen hat Giona A. Nazzaro für das 77. Locarno Film Festival ausgewählt. Weitere sieben Titel sind deutsche Koproduktionen. In den internationalen Wettbewerb wurden unter anderem die neuen Arbeiten von Christoph Hochhäusler und Pia Marais eingeladen. Zwei Koproduktionen laufen auf der Piazza Grande: „The Seed of a Sacred Fig“ von Mohammad Rassoulof und „Electric Child“ von Simon Jaquemet.
Christoph Hochhäuslers „La Mort viendra“ (Credit: Heimatfilm)
Locarno ist ein gutes Pflaster für deutsche Filmschaffende und Produzenten. War immer schon so. Wird auch in diesem Jahr so sein, dem ersten Jahr mit der neuen Festivalpräsidentin Maja Hoffmann, die den langjährigen Festivalpatriarchen Marco Solari ablöst – und die vierte Ausgabe unter der künstlerischen Leitung von Giona A. Nazzaro, der mittlerweile seinen Groove gefunden, dem Festival seine souveräne künstlerische Handschrift verpasst hat – die Handschrift eines echten Cinephilen, der das Kino in alle seinen Ausprägungen feiert.
Gerade ist die Vorstellung des Programms von Locarno 77, das vom...
Christoph Hochhäuslers „La Mort viendra“ (Credit: Heimatfilm)
Locarno ist ein gutes Pflaster für deutsche Filmschaffende und Produzenten. War immer schon so. Wird auch in diesem Jahr so sein, dem ersten Jahr mit der neuen Festivalpräsidentin Maja Hoffmann, die den langjährigen Festivalpatriarchen Marco Solari ablöst – und die vierte Ausgabe unter der künstlerischen Leitung von Giona A. Nazzaro, der mittlerweile seinen Groove gefunden, dem Festival seine souveräne künstlerische Handschrift verpasst hat – die Handschrift eines echten Cinephilen, der das Kino in alle seinen Ausprägungen feiert.
Gerade ist die Vorstellung des Programms von Locarno 77, das vom...
- 7/10/2024
- by Thomas Schultze
- Spot - Media & Film
Mélanie Laurent und Guillaume Canet, Hauptdarsteller des Eröffnungsfilms „Le Déluge“, werden im Rahmen der Eröffnungsgala des 77. Locarno Film Festival mit dem Excellence Award Davide Campari ausgezeichnet.
Guillaume Canet und Mélanie Laurent werden beim Locarno Film Festival mit dem Excellence Award Davide Campari geehrt (Credit: Locarno Film Festival)
Die beiden französischen Schauspieler Mélanie Laurent und Guillaume Canet werden im Rahmen der Eröffnungsgala des Locarno Film Festival am 7. August mit dem Excellence Award Davide Campari, den das Festival an Schauspieler mit außergewöhnlichen Karrieren vergibt, ausgezeichnet. Wie das Festival heute bekannt gab, wird ihnen die Auszeichnung vor dem vor dem Eröffnungsfilm, Gianluca Jodices „Le Déluge“, überreicht. In dem Historiendrama spielen Mélanie Laurent und Guillaume Canet Marie-Antoinette und Ludwig XVI.
Giona A. Nazzaro, Künstlerische Leiterin: „Mélanie Laurent und Guillaume Canet haben sich im Laufe der Jahre ihre eigenen und erkennbaren schauspielerischen Wege gebahnt. Im Dienste der französischen und europäischen Tradition des Autorenkinos, die sich...
Guillaume Canet und Mélanie Laurent werden beim Locarno Film Festival mit dem Excellence Award Davide Campari geehrt (Credit: Locarno Film Festival)
Die beiden französischen Schauspieler Mélanie Laurent und Guillaume Canet werden im Rahmen der Eröffnungsgala des Locarno Film Festival am 7. August mit dem Excellence Award Davide Campari, den das Festival an Schauspieler mit außergewöhnlichen Karrieren vergibt, ausgezeichnet. Wie das Festival heute bekannt gab, wird ihnen die Auszeichnung vor dem vor dem Eröffnungsfilm, Gianluca Jodices „Le Déluge“, überreicht. In dem Historiendrama spielen Mélanie Laurent und Guillaume Canet Marie-Antoinette und Ludwig XVI.
Giona A. Nazzaro, Künstlerische Leiterin: „Mélanie Laurent und Guillaume Canet haben sich im Laufe der Jahre ihre eigenen und erkennbaren schauspielerischen Wege gebahnt. Im Dienste der französischen und europäischen Tradition des Autorenkinos, die sich...
- 7/10/2024
- by Jochen Müller
- Spot - Media & Film
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