Alfonso Cuarón, Oscar-winning Mexican film producer, best known for his film ” gravity, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Romewill receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 77th Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland.
He will receive the honor on Sunday, August 11, at the Swiss town’s Grand Place in a tribute to “a film figure with an extraordinary career,” and audiences can join him in a panel earlier in the day dialogue.
“From Mexican low-budget films to Hollywood blockbusters, from adaptations of Charles Dickens, James P.D. or Harry Potter to the boldness and sophistication of modern classics such as And your mother (2001), gravity (2013) and Rome (2018) – winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival – Alfonso Cuaron embodies the true spirit of a chameleon contemporary artist capable of taking on any task,” said Locarno Film Festival organizers. “While Cuarón is best known for some of cinema’s most memorable dynamic long takes, he is also a very sure casting director, adept at delivering iconic and often career-best performances from his stars. From stars from Mexico, such as Diego Luna or Gael García Bernal, to abroad, such as Julianne Moore, George Clooney ), Sandra Bullock, Michael Caine and Clive Owen to name a few.
The filmmaker won two Oscars gravity and three Romehis semi-autobiographical account of growing up in Mexico City, which includes best director honors for both films.
Giona A. Nazzaro, artistic director of the Locarno Film Festival, said: “Alfonso Cuarón was a visionary.
The author of a quick and free imagination. Combining an experimental spirit with the influence of the great pop writers, he managed to capture the imagination and hearts of millions of viewers, conveying the same experiences he himself experienced during his childhood and adolescence basking in the glow of classic Mexican cinema. of miracles.
He added: “From bildungsroman to science fiction, from melodrama to grand sagas like Harry Potter, Alfonso Cuaron reinvents himself as an artist with every new film. Always in the service of cinematic pleasure, thus creating a truly multifaceted work.
Nazzaro concludes: “From bildungsroman to science fiction, from melodrama to grand sagas like Harry Potter, Alfonso Cuaron reinvents himself as an artist with each new film , always in the service of cinematic pleasure.
At the 77th Locarno Film Festival, held from August 7 to 17, the Locarno Film Festival not only paid tribute to Cuarón but also screened films by Alain Tanner Jonas will be 25 years old in 2000 (In 2000 Jonah was 25 years old), which the film festival noted was “Cuarón’s personal choice.” Ahead of the screening, the filmmaker will discuss its significance to his own work and film history as a whole.
Other Locarno77 winners include Jane Campion, Indian superstar Shah Rukh Khan, Erin Brockovich and django unchained Producers Stacey Sher and Ben Burtt, the voice of R2-D2, ET and Wall-E.
