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Locarno 2010

7 articles available in total starting from 09/08/2010. Last article published on 16/08/2010.

Chinese director Li Hongqi scoops Golden Leopard

The 63rd Locarno Film Festival drew to a close on August 14. The major winner was Li Hongqi’s Winter Vacation, which scooped not only the Golden Leopard, but also the FIPRESCI Film Critics’ Prize...  

16/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Awards

Sagat: From hard porn to gay zombie

Two films in Competition, but no Best Actor Leopard. Not that anyone was counting on it (least of all himself), but the fact remains that the true star here at the Locarno International Film...  

13/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Competition/Germany

Magimel, the predictable lawyer

Freshly out of the Faculty of Law, recent graduate Léo (played regrettably by a somewhat older Benoît Magimel) is intent on becoming a criminal lawyer. But when he is hired by a cabinet owned by...  

12/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Piazza Grande/France

Outbound: Matilda’s 24 hours of freedom

Matilda – played by Ana Ularu, a nervy beauty who starred in The Paper Will Be Blue and a serious contender for the Best Actress Leopard – is rewarded for good behaviour with a day’s release from...  

11/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Competition/Romania

Fliegauf and cloned love

On a windswept beach with crashing waves, Rebecca and Tommy met as children. He lives this landscape on a metaphysical journey so savage that it seems unnatural, while she – staying at her...  

11/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Competition/Germany-Hungary-France

Honoré’s erotic bodies reach beyond cliché

According to director Christophe Honoré, today as in the past, French cinema lacks films and actors that explore virility in all its facets. “Actors’ bodies,” he says,” are often covered,...  

09/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Competition/France

Pietro, the story of an outcast

After screening his nearly four-hour documentary Rata Nece Biti, on the aftermath of the war in the former Yugoslavia, at Locarno (then going on to win the Turin Film Festival and a David di...  

09/08/2010 | Locarno 2010 | Competition/Italy

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