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Locarno Film Festival

5 August – 15 August 2015

Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck
Judd Apatow’s Trainwreck

The Swiss-Italian festival with a passion for auteur cinema returns for its 68th edition. It will open with Jonathen Demme's Ricki And The Flash, showing outdoors in the Piazza Grandeto an audience of thousands, and will feature retrospectives dedicated to the work of Michael Cimino and Sam Peckinpah.

The festival runs from the 5th to the 15th of August with Prefestival screenings on the 2nd and 4th.

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  • Lost And Beautiful
    Review preview for Lost And Beautiful

    Lost And Beautiful is filmed on expired 16mm film stock, in keeping with its themes, and the result is a delicate, watery palette which gives it a unique beauty.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Documentary and fiction blend in a tale of ancient palaces, devoted shepherds and a young calf contemplating his fate.
  • Happy Hour
    Review preview for Happy Hour

    Quiet and unassuming yet making some devastating points, Hamaguchi's film is shot with deceptive simplicity.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The lives of three married friends are turned upside down when their friend, just divorced, disappears. Are they really living the lives they want?
  • Right Now, Wrong Then
    Review preview for Right Now, Wrong Then

    The film persuades viewers to zero in on the details by using its second scenario to invite constant subconscious questioning of what has changed.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    A middle-aged art-film director and a fledgling artist meet - she knows he’s famous but doesn’t know his films, he’d like to see her paintings.
  • Summertime
    Review preview for Summertime

    Though the events unfold forward, the feel of Summertime is that of a pleasantly painful memory recalled backwards, clutching you emotionally as if you were looking at a faded photo album.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Drama about social change in France in the early 1970s.
  • On Football
    Review preview for On Football

    Makes adroit use of the Beautiful Game's resonance in people's lives as a route in to a personal story.

    Rebecca Naughten · 4 out of 5
    An estranged father and son reunite after 20 years in order to watch the 2014 World Cup together.
  • Chevalier
    Review preview for Chevalier

    Takes a bawdy idea and turns it into something far more complex.

    Luke Shaw · 4.5 out of 5
    Six men on a boat try to judge who is best.
  • The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers
    Review preview for The Sky Trembles And The Earth Is Afraid And The Two Eyes Are Not Brothers

    Some just won't manage to connect but others will relish its intelligence and find it deeply moving.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    The beauty of Morocco transformed into a mysterious landscape.
  • The People Vs Fritz Bauer
    Review preview for The People Vs Fritz Bauer

    There are elements of courthouse film and elements of police procedural here, but the overall mood is closer to that of a Cold War spy thriller.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A portrait of Fritz Bauer, a man who defied his own government in working with Mossad to track down Adolf Eichmann.
  • James White
    Review preview for James White

    This film feels fresh and real even to those of us who have been there.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A young New Yorker struggles to take control of his reckless, self-destructive behaviour in the face of momentous family challenges.
  • Southpaw
    Review preview for Southpaw

    Ever since Donnie Darko it's been clear that Gyllenhaal is something special, and here he really gets the chance to shine.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Boxer Billy Hope turns to trainer Tick Willis to help him get his life back on track after losing his wife.

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