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Alfonso Cuarón to Be Celebrated by Locarno Festival With Lifetime Achievement Award

Alfonso Cuarón will be celebrated by the Locarno Festival with a lifetime achievement award.

The prominent Swiss fest dedicated to global indie cinema noted that Cuarón is a five-time Academy Award winner who has written and directed a wide range of movies, spanning from low-budget films in Mexico like his 1991 debut “Love in the Time of Hysteria” and road trip movie “Y tu mamá también”to Hollywood blockbusters such as “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.” Cuarón embodies “the true spirit of a chameleonic contemporary artist able to master any assignment,” a Locarno statement said. As part of its tribute to Cuarón – who will receive the award on Locarno’s open-air Piazza Grande on Aug. 11 – the fest will screen a film he personally chose, Swiss veteran Alain Tanner’s 1976 arthouse hit “Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000,” a rumination on time and history in which eight characters whose consciousness was molded by political events of 1968 faced the future with a utopian spirit. Cuaròn will discuss this film with Frédéric Maire, head of the Cinémathèque suisse, and also hold a separate conversation on his body of work with Italian critic and Locarno fest collaborator Manlio Gomarasca.

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