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Locarno Film Festival · 2015

Locarno Film Festival 2015

Piazza Grande

Programme

18 films · 8 reviews

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Amnesia

Drama set against a backdrop of Europe's electronic music scene.

(Country: Switzerland, France; Year: 2015; Director: Barbet Schroeder; Writer: Emilie Bickerton, Barbet Schroeder; Stars: Max Riemelt, Marthe Keller, Rick Zingale, Fèlix Pons)

Bombay Velvet

An ordinary man goes all out to make a name for himself.

(Country: India; Year: 2015; Director: Anurag Kashyap; Writer: Vasan Bala, Anurag Kashyap; Stars: Ranbir Kapoor, Anushka Sharma, Karan Johar)

The Deer Hunter

Three steelworkers leave their home town to fight in the Vietnam War, never anticipating the impact it will have on their lives.

(Country: US; Year: 1978; Director: Michael Cimino; Writer: Michael Cimino, Deric Washburn; Stars: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale, Meryl Streep)

Le Dernier Passage

A drama.

(Year: 2015; Director: Pascal Magontier)

Floride

An 80 year old man who is struggling with a failing memory decides to embark on a sudden trip to Florida, worrying the daughter who can no longer connect with him.

(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Philippe Le Guay; Writer: Philippe Le Guay, Jérôme Tonnerre; Stars: Jean Rochefort, Sandrine Kiberlain, Anamaria Marinca)

Guibord S'En Va-T-En Guerre

A comedy.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Philippe Falardeau; Writer: Philippe Falardeau; Stars: Patrick Huard, Suzanne Clément, Ellen David, Micheline Lanctôt)

Heliopolis

A film.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2015; Director: Sérgio Machado)

I Pugni I Tasca (Fists In the Pocket)

A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.

(Country: Italy; Year: 1965; Director: Marco Bellocchio; Writer: Marco Bellocchio; Stars: Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Pier Luigi Troglio)

Jack

A film.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2015; Director: Elisabeth Scharang)

The Laundryman (Qing Tian Jie Yi Hao)

A contract killer who operates as part of a gang under the cover of a laundry service turns to a psychic for help in driving away the ghosts who haunt him.

(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2015; Director: Lee Chung; Stars: Hsiao-chuan Chang, Qian Wan, Tang Sui)

Me And Earl And The Dying Girl

Review preview for Me And Earl And The Dying Girl

As cool as a multi-coloured popsicle.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 4 out of 5
How to be a teenager without losing your life and why helping a friend who is sick need not be an exercise in sentimental wishwash

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon; Writer: Jesse Andrews, based on his novel; Stars: Thomas Mann, RJ Cyler, Olivia Cooke, Nick Offerman, Connie Britton, Molly Shannon, Jon Bernthal, Katherine C. Hughes, Matt Bennett, Bobb'e J. Thompson)

The People Vs Fritz Bauer (Der Staat Gegen 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.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2015; Director: Lars Kraume; Writer: Lars Kraume, Olivier Guez; Stars: Burghart Klaußner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Sebastian Blomberg)

Ricki And The Flash

Review preview for Ricki And The Flash

There’s lot of music along the way, thrown in to the mix in a none too subtle manner, although Streep manages to carry off most of it with verve and true grit.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
A rock star tries to make things right with the family she sacrificed for the sake of her career.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jonathan Demme; Writer: Diablo Cody; Stars: Meryl Streep, Mamie Gummer, Sebastian Stan, Kevin Kline, Rick Springfield, Audra McDonald)

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.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Antoine Fuqua; Writer: Kurt Sutter; Stars: Jake Gyllenhaal, Rachel McAdams, Oona Laurence, Forest Whitaker, 50 Cent, Skylan Brro, Clare Foley)

Summertime (La Belle Saison)

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.

(Country: France; Year: 2015; Director: Catherine Corsini; Writer: Catherine Corsini, Laurette Polmanss; Stars: Cécile De France, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky)

Trainwreck

Review preview for Trainwreck

Perfectly watchable and occasionally touching despite itself.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
A woman with a fear of commitment finds herself falling for a man who wants to settle down in a monogamous relationship.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Judd Apatow; Writer: Amy Schumer; Stars: Amy Schumer, Bill Hader, Brie Larson, Colin Quinn, Tilda Swinton, LeBron James)

Vanity (La Vanité)

Review preview for Vanity

A beautifully modulated and measured odyssey.

Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
An elderly architect heads to a motel to finish planning his assisted suicide.

(Country: Switzerland, France; Year: 2015; Director: Lionel Baier; Writer: Lionel Baier, Julien Bouissoux; Stars: Patrick Lapp, Carmen Maura, Ivan Georgiev, Adrien Barazzone, Nina Théron)