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Locarno Film Festival

6 August – 18 August 2014

The Bird With The Crystal Plumage will be introduced by Dario Argento
The Bird With The Crystal Plumage will be introduced by Dario Argento

This year's festival will see Mia Farrow, Juliette Binoche and Armin Mueller-Stahl pick up career achievement awards and there will be a special tribute to one of Italy’s iconic studios Titanus, founded by Gustavo Lombardo in 1904.

Among the guests for the Titanus retrospective will be Dario Argento, introducing his first feature film The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, actress and singer Rita Pavone, with Lina Wertmüller’s Non Stuzzicate La Zanzara, and Eleonora Brown, introducing Two Women and Amore Mio.

The festival will open with Luc Besson's Lucy on August 6 and run until August 18.

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  • The Iron Ministry
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    The Iron Ministry moves beyond the observational to the experiential, which is to say that sound and image come together to put us among the passengers rather than simply watching them from a distance.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    A portrait of China, experienced through its vast and expanding railway.
  • Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey
    Review preview for Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey

    We see events from Alice's perspective, meaning that, unusually, she is positioned more as the desiring subject than the desired object within the narrative.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    Alice replaces a recently deceased mechanic onboard Fidelio, an old freighter, and sets off on a voyage of self-discovery.
  • The Hundred-Foot Journey
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    Marinated in tradition.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    An Indian family move to France and open a curry house across the road from a Michelin-starred restaurant.
  • To Life
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    Although the performances are uniformly pitch-perfect Julie Depardieu (centre) shines out as Hélène.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    Loosely based on the story of the director's mother who, years after being in Auschwitz decided to track down two women she had befriended in the camp.
  • Listen Up Philip
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    The moments of distinctly sub-Woody Allenesque humour make you dream of what might have been.

    Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
    An angry writer and his relationships.
  • The Princess of France
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    It only lasts an economical 70 minutes but seems considerably longer

    Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
    A year after his father’s death, Victor returns to Buenos Aires in order to reconquer the life he was forced to abandon. He brings a new project with him for his former theater company: a radio-play of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost.
  • The Shelter
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    This may seem like a “local” problem in an affluent town in a privileged country but it is one that has a universal implications.

    Richard Mowe · 2 out of 5
    Documentary about winter in a emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne.
  • Marie's Story
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    The sense of period and the deprivations of the time are authentically evoked without ramping up the emotional charge.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    Biopic about a woman who was born deaf and blind.
  • Dancing Arabs
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    The narrative, based on a novel by co-screenwriter Sayed Kashua, veers off course only in the final scenes and an implausible resolution.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    A boy from an Arab Israeli city is sent to a prestigious Jerusalem boarding school.
  • The Fool
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    Seizes the attention from the brutal opening – and refuses to let go for an instant.

    Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
    A smalltown plumber takes on corrupt bureaucracy.

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