Gravity and Roma director Alfonso Cuarón is to obtain the 2024 Locarno Movie Pageant‘s Lifetime Achievement Award.
5-time Oscar winner Cuarón will obtain the award on Sunday, August 11 in Piazza Grande. That very same day, the viewers may have a possibility to fulfill the Mexican filmmaker in a panel dialog at Discussion board @Spazio Cinema.
The Locarno tribute will likely be accompanied by the screening of Alain Tanner’s Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l’an 2000 (Jonah Who Will Be 25 within the 12 months 2000, 1976), which was personally chosen by Cuarón. Earlier than the screening of Tanner’s movie, Cuarón will talk about its significance each for his personal work and movie historical past on the whole. The dialog will likely be moderated by Frédéric Maire, director of Cinémathèque Suisse, and is organized in collaboration with Les Movies du Camélia.
Cuarón is greatest identified for films together with Y Tu Mamá También (2001), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004), Youngsters of Males (2006), Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018).
Giona A. Nazzaro, Creative Director of the pageant, mentioned: “Alfonso Cuarón is a visionary writer of agile and liberated imaginaries. Combining an experimental spirit with the sweep of nice in style writers, he has managed to seize the creativeness and hearts of tens of millions of viewers, passing on the identical marvel that he himself skilled as a toddler and teenager basking within the glow of traditional Mexican cinema. From coming-of-age novels to science fiction, from melodrama to grand sagas like Harry Potter, Alfonso Cuarón has reinvented himself as an artist with every new movie, all the time within the service of the pleasure of cinema, and has thus created a very multifaceted physique of labor.”
