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
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
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
The Locarno Film Festival (August 7-17) has revealed the line-up for its 77th edition, with directors including Hong Sangsoo, Wang Bing and Ben Rivers world premiering their latest films in its international competition.
Playing out of competition at Locarno are world premieres from directors including Radu Jude, Fabrice du Welz, Aislinn Clarke, Bertrand Mandico, and Marco Tullio Giordana. Locarno’s famed Piazza Grande screenings include world premieres from Paz Vega, César Díaz and Gianluca Jodice.
Locarno’s international competition comprises 17 films, all of them world premieres, which will vie for the coveted Golden Leopard awards.
Scroll down for full line-up...
Playing out of competition at Locarno are world premieres from directors including Radu Jude, Fabrice du Welz, Aislinn Clarke, Bertrand Mandico, and Marco Tullio Giordana. Locarno’s famed Piazza Grande screenings include world premieres from Paz Vega, César Díaz and Gianluca Jodice.
Locarno’s international competition comprises 17 films, all of them world premieres, which will vie for the coveted Golden Leopard awards.
Scroll down for full line-up...
- 7/10/2024
- ScreenDaily
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
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
When we dial Locarno chief Giona A. Nazzaro’s line, he’s in the process of slipping into an air-conditioned bar where he can escape the blistering heat that has consumed Southern Europe for much of July.
“It’s like living in a furnace,” he says. “It’s terrible, believe me.”
This year’s Locarno Film Festival is Nazzaro’s third edition as Artistic Director. He took charge in 2020, navigating the festival through the pandemic, and has now been tasked with pulling the event together amid dual US labor strikes.
“There hasn’t been a moment since I took the helm where I could switch to autopilot and cruise along,” he adds.
Mounted on the Italian-Swiss border, Locarno will be the first major international festival impacted by the strike, with an Aug 2 kick-off date. The fest runs until Aug 12. Locarno hosts an Official Competition, several sidebar sections, and an open-air screening program for local audiences.
“It’s like living in a furnace,” he says. “It’s terrible, believe me.”
This year’s Locarno Film Festival is Nazzaro’s third edition as Artistic Director. He took charge in 2020, navigating the festival through the pandemic, and has now been tasked with pulling the event together amid dual US labor strikes.
“There hasn’t been a moment since I took the helm where I could switch to autopilot and cruise along,” he adds.
Mounted on the Italian-Swiss border, Locarno will be the first major international festival impacted by the strike, with an Aug 2 kick-off date. The fest runs until Aug 12. Locarno hosts an Official Competition, several sidebar sections, and an open-air screening program for local audiences.
- 7/27/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The Locarno Film Festival has said it is “monitoring the situation” around the availability of acting talent following SAG-AFTRA’s decision to move forward with strike action last night.
Locarno, mounted on the Italian-Swiss border, will be one of the first international festivals impacted by the strike, with an early August kick-off date. And in a statement attributed to Festival Director Giona A. Nazzaro and passed to Deadline, the fest said it was currently reaching out to talent to gauge how the strike may shift their commitments.
“In light of the announced SAG-AFTRA strike, we are aware of the potential impact this situation may have on the artists involved and their professional commitments,” the statement read. “We are monitoring the situation and we are getting in contact with our guests to have a better understanding of their participation in this year’s edition of the Festival, and hence...
Locarno, mounted on the Italian-Swiss border, will be one of the first international festivals impacted by the strike, with an early August kick-off date. And in a statement attributed to Festival Director Giona A. Nazzaro and passed to Deadline, the fest said it was currently reaching out to talent to gauge how the strike may shift their commitments.
“In light of the announced SAG-AFTRA strike, we are aware of the potential impact this situation may have on the artists involved and their professional commitments,” the statement read. “We are monitoring the situation and we are getting in contact with our guests to have a better understanding of their participation in this year’s edition of the Festival, and hence...
- 7/14/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Riz Ahmed will be honored by the Locarno Film Festival where the latest short in which the British actor appears – titled “Dammi” and directed by French auteur Yann Mounir Demange – will world premiere.
Ahmed, who earned an Oscar nomination for best actor in 2021 for his performance as a drummer who suddenly goes deaf in Amazon’s “Sound of Metal,” will be feted by the Swiss fest dedicated to indie filmmaking cinema with with its 2021 Excellence Award Davide Campari, which pays tribute to film personalities who have left their personal stamp on contemporary cinema.
“Dammi,” which was teased at Cannes, is an experimental work, broadly on the theme of immigration and identity, produced by French fashion brand Ami, founded by Alexandre Mattiussi, and also starring Isabelle Adjani, Souheila Yacoub, Sandor Funtek and Suzy Bemba. The buzzed-about short will screen at Locarno’s 8,000-seat Piazza Grande, on opening night, Aug. 2, during the...
Ahmed, who earned an Oscar nomination for best actor in 2021 for his performance as a drummer who suddenly goes deaf in Amazon’s “Sound of Metal,” will be feted by the Swiss fest dedicated to indie filmmaking cinema with with its 2021 Excellence Award Davide Campari, which pays tribute to film personalities who have left their personal stamp on contemporary cinema.
“Dammi,” which was teased at Cannes, is an experimental work, broadly on the theme of immigration and identity, produced by French fashion brand Ami, founded by Alexandre Mattiussi, and also starring Isabelle Adjani, Souheila Yacoub, Sandor Funtek and Suzy Bemba. The buzzed-about short will screen at Locarno’s 8,000-seat Piazza Grande, on opening night, Aug. 2, during the...
- 7/5/2023
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival, Europe’s biggest mid-Summer movie event, has announced its lineup, welcoming recognizable names to its main competition, from Filipino auteur Lav Diaz (“Essential Truths of the Lake”) to Romanian powerhouse Radu Jude, who will show “Do Not Expect Too Much of the End of the World.”
As already announced, Cate Blanchett and Zar Amir Ebrahimi are set to attend the Locarno Film Festival’s closing night to promote the European launch of Iranian-Australian director Noora Niasari’s debut film “Shayda.”
Among the titles selected for Locarno’s more broad-audience-friendly Piazza Grande lineup, Justine Triet will attend with her Cannes Palme’ d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall,” along with Ken Loach and his “The Old Oak.”
The festival will also celebrate the careers of Harmony Korine, producer Marianne Slot, editor Pietro Scalia, Tsai Ming-liang and present a Lifetime Achievement Award to Italian producer Renzo Rossellini.
As already announced, Cate Blanchett and Zar Amir Ebrahimi are set to attend the Locarno Film Festival’s closing night to promote the European launch of Iranian-Australian director Noora Niasari’s debut film “Shayda.”
Among the titles selected for Locarno’s more broad-audience-friendly Piazza Grande lineup, Justine Triet will attend with her Cannes Palme’ d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall,” along with Ken Loach and his “The Old Oak.”
The festival will also celebrate the careers of Harmony Korine, producer Marianne Slot, editor Pietro Scalia, Tsai Ming-liang and present a Lifetime Achievement Award to Italian producer Renzo Rossellini.
- 7/5/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
UK star Riz Ahmed will be feted with a career achievement award at the upcoming 76th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, running August 2 and 12.
The Sound Of Metal actor will be presented with the Excellence Award Davide Campari at the opening night ceremony on the festival’s landmark Piazza Grande open-air cinema.
The ceremony will premiere Yann Mounir Demange’s semi-autobiographical short film Dammi, in which Ahmed participated alongside Isabelle Adjani, Souheila Yacoub, Sandor Funtek and Suzy Bemba.
The tribute will also screen Bassam Tariq’s 2020 rapper drama Mughal Mowgli, which Ahmed starred in and also produced and co-wrote, as part of it program.
Locarno announced the tribute during its announcement on Wednesday of its full 2023 line-up.
French directorial duo Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel’s The Falling Star will open the festival as part of the Piazza Grande program, which also features Justine Triet’s 2023 Cannes d’Or Winner Anatomy of a Fall,...
The Sound Of Metal actor will be presented with the Excellence Award Davide Campari at the opening night ceremony on the festival’s landmark Piazza Grande open-air cinema.
The ceremony will premiere Yann Mounir Demange’s semi-autobiographical short film Dammi, in which Ahmed participated alongside Isabelle Adjani, Souheila Yacoub, Sandor Funtek and Suzy Bemba.
The tribute will also screen Bassam Tariq’s 2020 rapper drama Mughal Mowgli, which Ahmed starred in and also produced and co-wrote, as part of it program.
Locarno announced the tribute during its announcement on Wednesday of its full 2023 line-up.
French directorial duo Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel’s The Falling Star will open the festival as part of the Piazza Grande program, which also features Justine Triet’s 2023 Cannes d’Or Winner Anatomy of a Fall,...
- 7/5/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
International competition features 16 world premieres.
The Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12) has revealed the line-up for its 76th edition, which includes the world premiere of Romanian director Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End Of The World.
Locarno’s international competition will comprise 17 films, including 16 world premieres, which will vie for the coveted Golden Leopard awards.
Scroll down for full list of titles
These titles include Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End Of The World, his first feature since winning the Berlinale Golden Bear for Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn in...
The Locarno Film Festival (August 2-12) has revealed the line-up for its 76th edition, which includes the world premiere of Romanian director Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End Of The World.
Locarno’s international competition will comprise 17 films, including 16 world premieres, which will vie for the coveted Golden Leopard awards.
Scroll down for full list of titles
These titles include Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much Of The End Of The World, his first feature since winning the Berlinale Golden Bear for Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn in...
- 7/5/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
The Locarno International Film Festival unveiled the full program for 2023 on Wednesday, with dozens of world premieres set to screen in the 76th edition of the Swiss festival.
Locarno’s main Piazza Grande section will include several of this season’s festival favorites, among them Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall from French director Justine Triet starring Sandra Hüller; Ken Loach’s latest (and possibly last) feature, The Old Oak; Noora Niasari’s Sundance audience award winner Shayda, featuring Holy Spider star Zar Amir Ebrahimi; and Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman’s comedy Theater Camp, which won a special jury prize at Sundance. Other highlights include U.S. horror feature Falling Stars by directors Richard Karpala and Gabriel Bienczycki; Dammi from 71′ and White Boy Rick-helmer Yann Demange; and Magnetic Continent, the new nature documentary from March of the Penguins‘ filmmaker Luc Jacquet about the continent of Antarctica.
Locarno’s main Piazza Grande section will include several of this season’s festival favorites, among them Cannes Palme d’Or winner Anatomy of a Fall from French director Justine Triet starring Sandra Hüller; Ken Loach’s latest (and possibly last) feature, The Old Oak; Noora Niasari’s Sundance audience award winner Shayda, featuring Holy Spider star Zar Amir Ebrahimi; and Molly Gordon and Nick Lieberman’s comedy Theater Camp, which won a special jury prize at Sundance. Other highlights include U.S. horror feature Falling Stars by directors Richard Karpala and Gabriel Bienczycki; Dammi from 71′ and White Boy Rick-helmer Yann Demange; and Magnetic Continent, the new nature documentary from March of the Penguins‘ filmmaker Luc Jacquet about the continent of Antarctica.
- 7/5/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It was all about Aaron Taylor-Johnson at Locarno’s opening ceremony, as the actor received the 2022 Excellence Award Davide Campari and introduced “Bullet Train.”
“Sometimes, people ask me what I do. I say: ‘I am a dad and I do acting on the side, part time,” he told the crowd gathered at Piazza Grande before the screening.
“Recently though, I have been feeling a subtle shift. I’ve tried to grow into those shoes where I am proud to celebrate the actor in me. I had to reflect on what brought me to this moment and I would be kidding myself if I thought it was just my own genius. That would be nice, but it’s not the truth. It’s a team effort.”
Supporting that statement, he also found time to praise his supportive co-star, Brad Pitt, calling him a “humble and gracious human being.”
“He is in...
“Sometimes, people ask me what I do. I say: ‘I am a dad and I do acting on the side, part time,” he told the crowd gathered at Piazza Grande before the screening.
“Recently though, I have been feeling a subtle shift. I’ve tried to grow into those shoes where I am proud to celebrate the actor in me. I had to reflect on what brought me to this moment and I would be kidding myself if I thought it was just my own genius. That would be nice, but it’s not the truth. It’s a team effort.”
Supporting that statement, he also found time to praise his supportive co-star, Brad Pitt, calling him a “humble and gracious human being.”
“He is in...
- 8/5/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
He will also introduce the festival’s opening film ’Bullet Train’.
UK actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson will be honoured with the Excellence Award Davide Campari at the 75th Locarno Film Festival (August 3-13).
The actor will receive the award at the Piazza Grande on the opening night (August 3) before introducing the festival’s opening film Bullet Train which he also stars in. The film is directed by David Leitch who previously attended the festival in 2017 with Atomic Blonde.
Taylor-Johnson is best known for his roles in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, Nowhere Boy and the Kick-Ass films.
The Excellence Award aims...
UK actor Aaron Taylor-Johnson will be honoured with the Excellence Award Davide Campari at the 75th Locarno Film Festival (August 3-13).
The actor will receive the award at the Piazza Grande on the opening night (August 3) before introducing the festival’s opening film Bullet Train which he also stars in. The film is directed by David Leitch who previously attended the festival in 2017 with Atomic Blonde.
Taylor-Johnson is best known for his roles in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, Nowhere Boy and the Kick-Ass films.
The Excellence Award aims...
- 7/8/2022
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
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Aaron Taylor-Johnson is set to receive the Locarno Film Festival’s Excellence Award Davide Campari on Aug. 3.
The British actor will be presented with the honor by David Leitch, the director of Bullet Train, in which Taylor-Johnson stars.
Taylor-Johnson is also known for roles as John Lennon in wife Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Nowhere Boy, in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, in Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron and in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet.
“An Excellence Award for a young and extremely talented actor, able to speak to all audiences, to jump from one genre to another, driven by an extraordinary ability to always put himself on the line and take risks,” Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro said of the award to be given to Taylor-Johnson.
Past recipients of the Locarno tribute include Isabelle Huppert, Edward Norton, Ethan Hawke and, last year,...
Aaron Taylor-Johnson is set to receive the Locarno Film Festival’s Excellence Award Davide Campari on Aug. 3.
The British actor will be presented with the honor by David Leitch, the director of Bullet Train, in which Taylor-Johnson stars.
Taylor-Johnson is also known for roles as John Lennon in wife Sam Taylor-Johnson’s Nowhere Boy, in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, in Joss Whedon’s Avengers: Age of Ultron and in Christopher Nolan’s Tenet.
“An Excellence Award for a young and extremely talented actor, able to speak to all audiences, to jump from one genre to another, driven by an extraordinary ability to always put himself on the line and take risks,” Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro said of the award to be given to Taylor-Johnson.
Past recipients of the Locarno tribute include Isabelle Huppert, Edward Norton, Ethan Hawke and, last year,...
- 7/8/2022
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Aaron Taylor-Johnson will be feted by the Locarno Film Festival with its 2022 Excellence Award Davide Campari, which pays tribute to film personalities who are making their mark on contemporary cinema.
The British actor, who is 32, will receive the award on the evening of Aug. 3 in the Swiss festival’s outdoor Piazza Grande venue, where he will launch Locarno’s opening film “Bullet Train” directed by David Leitch, in which he stars alongside Brad Pitt among other high-caliber cast members.
Taylor-Johnson is known for roles that span from his breakout performance playing John Lennon in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Nowhere Boy” in 2009 and the title character in Matthew Vaughn’s “Kick-Ass” in 2010, to Count Vronsky in Joe Wright’s “Anna Karenina,” and MCU character Peter Maximoff in “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”
In 2016 he scored a Golden Globe for best supporting actor for playing a psychopathic drifter in Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals.
The British actor, who is 32, will receive the award on the evening of Aug. 3 in the Swiss festival’s outdoor Piazza Grande venue, where he will launch Locarno’s opening film “Bullet Train” directed by David Leitch, in which he stars alongside Brad Pitt among other high-caliber cast members.
Taylor-Johnson is known for roles that span from his breakout performance playing John Lennon in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Nowhere Boy” in 2009 and the title character in Matthew Vaughn’s “Kick-Ass” in 2010, to Count Vronsky in Joe Wright’s “Anna Karenina,” and MCU character Peter Maximoff in “Avengers: Age of Ultron.”
In 2016 he scored a Golden Globe for best supporting actor for playing a psychopathic drifter in Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals.
- 7/8/2022
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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