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REPORT: Locarno 2019

Cineuropa is covering the 72nd Locarno Film Festival live with reviews, interviews, news...

REPORT: Locarno 2019

74 articles available in total starting from 24/08/2018. Last article published on 27/08/2019.

Review: The Nest

Review: The Nest

The new film from Roberto De Feo is an homage to Italian horror cinema and offers interesting ideas, but the weakness of the script jeopardizes its potential  

15/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Piazza Grande

Roberto De Feo  • Director of The Nest

Interview: Roberto De Feo • Director of The Nest

“I wanted to tell the tale of a world cut adrift, using as a metaphor the story of a family living in a place outside of time”

Cineuropa met with Roberto De Feo, the director of horror flick The Nest, which is competing in Locarno’s Piazza Grande  

15/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Piazza Grande

Eloy Enciso  • Director of Endless Night

Interview: Eloy Enciso • Director of Endless Night

“Cinema is a vehicle for exploration as well as storytelling”

Galician director Eloy Enciso, competing at the Locarno International Film Festival with his second feature, Endless Night, gives us the inside story on his evocative new film  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: Echo

Review: Echo

Rúnar Rúnarsson’s film is not another Christmas movie  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: Oroslan

Review: Oroslan

Matjaž Ivanišin proves there is life after death – at least in the stories we tell  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Filmmakers of the Present

Review: Days of the Bagnold Summer

Review: Days of the Bagnold Summer

Simon Bird stays on the right side of whimsy in his winning adaptation of Joff Winterhart’s graphic novel  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Piazza Grande

Damien Manivel  • Director of Isadora’s Children

Interview: Damien Manivel • Director of Isadora’s Children

"I try to always look at the actors as if they were dancing"

French director Damien Manivel tells us about his latest film Isadora’s Children, screening in International Competition in Locarno  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

João Nicolau  • Director of Technoboss

Interview: João Nicolau • Director of Technoboss

“As a director, the use of music in film is one of the subjects that interests me the most”

Portuguese director João Nicolau talks to us about his latest film Technoboss screened in competition in Locarno  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: Endless Night

Review: Endless Night

Galician filmmaker Eloy Enciso crafts a shadowy, dreamlike film that stares into the open wound of Francoist repression  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Competition

Review: Overseas

Review: Overseas

Yoon Sung-a paints the portrait of an almost invisible female economic migration, that of the young Filipino women who go live abroad to work for rich foreigners in order to feed their families  

14/08/2019 | Locarno 2019 | Filmmakers of the Present

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