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Tag "Locarno"
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‘September Afternoon’ Locarno Review: A Beach Day Stretched to Collapse
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‘Petrolheads’ Locarno Review: A Bond Forged in Restlessness
A troubled young man with neurological disorders navigates addiction and instability, finding in a loyal friend a fragile anchor amid an increasingly chaotic life.
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‘In All My Journeys I Am Returning’ Locarno Review: A Hypnotic Voyage into the Heart of Darkness
Two Swedish explorers journey into 19th-century Colombia seeking gold, only to face a haunting descent where ambition dissolves into myth, isolation, and inner darkness.
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‘Sixteen Moments of My Life’ Locarno Review: Ingrid Caven Turns Memory into Drama in Albert Serra’s Concert Film
Albert Serra films Ingrid Caven’s Paris concert as sixteen staged memories, blending cabaret, opera and experimental sound into an intimate, hypnotic performance portrait.
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‘The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer’ Locarno Review: Friendship, Time, and the Lives We Imagine
Over 25 years, two cousins grow up before the camera, their shared dreams confronting reality as time reshapes their friendship and the world around them.
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Locarno 2026: crítica de ‘Los días libres’ (‘The Days Off’), de Lucila Mariani (Cineasti del Presente)
Mientras un eclipse provoca conductas extrañas, una chica se refugia en rituales online que prometen escape, entre bullying, crisis familiar y el desconcierto de crecer.
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‘The Days Off’ Locarno Review: An Eerie Coming-of-Age Story of Shifting Selves
As an eclipse triggers unsettling behavior, a twelve-year-old retreats into online rituals promising escape, navigating bullying, family crisis and the disquiet of growing up.
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Locarno 2025: crítica de «White Snails», de Elsa Kremser y Levin Peter
Una modelo bielorrusa que sueña con una carrera en China se siente atraída por un misterioso solitario que trabaja en el turno de noche de una morgue. Su encuentro perturba su sentido del cuerpo, la belleza y la mortalidad.
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‘Two Seasons, Two Strangers’ Locarno Review: The Poetry of Fleeting Encounters
In summer, Nagisa and Natsuo meet by the sea. In winter, Li, a screenwriter, travels to a snow-covered village. There, she finds a guesthouse run by Benzo.
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Locarno 2025: crítica de «Two Seasons, Two Strangers» (‘旅と日々’), de Sho Miyake
En verano, Nagisa y Natsuo se encuentran junto al mar. En invierno, Li viaja a un pueblo nevado y allí encuentra una casa de huéspedes regentada por Benzo. Ganadora del Leopardo de Oro del Festival de Locarno.
