In Switzerland, in the canton of Ticino, on the shores of Lake Maggiore, the Locarno festival takes up its summer quarters as every year. An eclectic and broad-spectrum festival.
From our special correspondent, Elisabeth Lequeret
On the Piazza Grande, every evening, 8,000 yellow and black chairs await festival-goers, wisely lined up in front of a gigantic screen.
Tuesday, August 9, A woman of our time, a genre film, is offered to the public. It is screened, under the stars, as a world premiere.
Dans this film, Sophie Marceau plays a police commissioner who discovers her husband’s double life. It is one of the fifteen films selected by the festival’s artistic director, Giona A. Nazzaro, for screenings in the Piazza: “ It is a place where, every evening, the emotion is renewed. What happens on the Piazza is what the cinema can do, can still do. The observation that Locarno is unique in the sense that the festival transforms the whole city. “.
This year, the Locarno festival will also celebrate Matt Dillon, Laurie Anderson, Juliette Binoche, Costa-Gavras. Something to delight the Swiss public, all to the joy of the cinema found after these two years of pandemic.
Day 3 flew by yesterday! From Matt Dillon and Udo Kier holding a Conversation, then all the way to the Red Carpet, Daisy Edgar-Jones who received the Leopard Club Award and many more! We can’t wait to show you what’s happening today!? #Locarno75 pic.twitter.com/S86uPnWGlt
— Locarno Film Festival (@FilmFestLocarno) August 6, 2022