Alfonso Cuarón, the Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker identified for the likes of Gravity, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Roma, will obtain a lifetime achievement award at the 77th version of the Locarno Movie Competition in Switzerland.
He’ll obtain the dignity, a tribute to “movie personalities with extraordinary careers,” on Sunday, Aug. 11 within the Swiss city’s Piazza Grande after audiences can catch a panel dialog with him earlier within the day.
“From low-budget movies in Mexico to blockbusters in Hollywood, from variations of Charles Dickens, P.D. James or Harry Potter to the audacity and delicacy of contemporary classics, similar to Y tu mamá también (2001), Gravity (2013) and Roma (2018) — which received the Golden Lion on the Venice Movie Competition — Alfonso Cuarón has embodied the true spirit of a chameleonic up to date artist in a position to grasp any task,” Locarno fest organizers mentioned. “Although identified for the dynamic long-takes that characterize essentially the most memorable sequences in his movies, Cuarón can also be an exceptionally assured director of actors, excelling in bringing iconic and sometimes career-best performances out of stars, starting from these in Mexico, like Diego Luna or Gael García Bernal, to overseas, as with Julianne Moore, George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine and Clive Owen, to call however a number of.”
The filmmaker received two Oscars for Gravity and three for Roma, his semi-autographical take on his upbringing in Mexico Metropolis, together with the most effective director honor for each films.
Famous Giona A. Nazzaro, inventive director of the Locarno Movie Competition: “Alfonso Cuarón is a visionary
writer of agile and liberated imaginaries. Combining an experimental spirit with the sweep of nice well-liked writers, he has managed to seize the creativeness and hearts of hundreds of thousands of viewers, passing on the identical marvel that he himself skilled as a toddler and teenager basking within the glow of traditional Mexican cinema.”
He added: “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.”
Concluded Nazzaro: “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.”
Throughout its 77th version, which runs Aug. 7-17, the Locarno competition is paying tribute to Cuarón not solely with the lifetime honor but additionally with the screening of Alain Tanner’s Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l’an 2000 (Jonah Who Will Be 25 within the Yr 2000), which the fest famous has been “personally chosen by Cuarón.” Earlier than the screening, the filmmaker will focus on its significance each for his personal work and movie historical past on the whole.
Different Locarno77 honorees embody Jane Campion, Indian celebrity Shah Rukh Khan, Erin Brockovich and Django Unchained producer Stacey Sher and Ben Burtt, the person behind the voices of R2-D2, E.T. and Wall-E.
