Mexican director Cuarón wins Lifetime Achievement award at Locarno film festival
Locarno Film Festival: lifetime achievement award to Alfonso Cuarón
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The Lifetime Achievement Award of the 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, held in southern Switzerland, goes to Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón.
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He will receive the award on Sunday, August 11, in the Piazza Grande. This was announced by the Locarno Film Festival in a note on Tuesday. The five-time Oscar-winning director will meet the audience at the Spazio Cinema Forum on the same day.
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The Mexican director is “a contemporary artist capable of facing any challenge,” the note reads. Cuarón has directed films such as Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and Roma (2018), among others.
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The tribute will include a screening of the film Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1976) by Alain Tanner, chosen by Cuarón himself. At the event’s opening, the Mexican director will discuss the importance of this film “for his own work and for the history of cinema in general” with Frédéric Maire, director of Cinémathèque suisse.
The Lifetime Achievement Award, has been awarded since 2011. Previous winners include Harrison Ford (2011), Alain Delon (2012), Jacqueline Bisset (2013), Harvey Keitel (2016), Dario Argento (2021), Matt Dillon (2022) and last year Renzo Rossellini.
The Locarno Film Festival runs from August 7 to 17.
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