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Locarno to Celebrate ‘Barry Lyndon,’ ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ Costume Designer Milena Canonero With Lifetime Achievement Award
The Locarno Film Festival will celebrate 'Barry Lyndon' and 'The Phoenician Scheme' costume Designer Milena Canonero with a lifetime achievement award
The prominent Swiss fest dedicated to international indie cinema will be feting Canonero with its Vision Award Ticinomoda and screening her most recent collaboration with Francis Ford Coppola “Megalopolis.” “Take the Jazz Age tuxedos and gowns of Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Cotton Club” (1984), the pre-revolutionary aristocratic ruffles in Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette” (2006), Tilda Swinton’s elaborate, Klimt-like costumes in Wes Anderson’s “The Grand Budapest Hotel” (2014), or the stylish dark looks of Catherine Deneuve and Davie Bowie in Tony Scott’s horror film “The Hunger” (1983),” the statement goes on to point out. “Like a Renaissance artist, she has combined the profound wisdom of craftsmanship with the potential of cinema, thus opening infinite spaces for human imagination and expression,” he added.
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