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Asia Argento will beryllium awarded a life accomplishment grant astatine this year’s Locarno Film Festival, which runs from August 5-15.
Argento will person nan grant connected nan festival’s Piazza Grande shape connected August 13. She will besides coming her latest title, Jorge Thielen Armand’s La Muerte No Tiene Dueño (Death Has No Master), which debuted successful Directors Fortnight astatine this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
Giona A. Nazzaro, Locarno’s Artistic Director, described Argento arsenic “an creator who has ever managed to reimagine what it intends to make films, perpetually challenging herself and taking individual risks.”
“Driven by a extremist imaginative calling, done which she has probed nan limits and explored nan possibilities of cinema, some arsenic an character and arsenic a director, Asia Argento embodies a vitality, generosity, and restlessness that stands arsenic among nan astir vivid representations of each that cinema still has to offer,” Nazzaro added.
As a performer, Argento has worked pinch board specified arsenic Abel Ferrara (New Rose Hotel, 1998 and Go Go Tales, 2007), Gus Van Sant (Last Days, 2005), George A. Romero (Land of nan Dead, 2005), Sofia Coppola (Marie Antoinette, 2006), and Olivier Assayas (Boarding Gate, 2007). She besides starred successful galore films by her father, Dario Argento, including Trauma (1993) and The Stendhal Syndrome (1996).
Argento has directed her ain features, starting pinch her debut Scarlet Diva successful 2000 and astir precocious Misunderstood (2014).
In Death Has No Master, Argento plays an migrant heiress to a assemblage cacao plantation successful Venezuela. She ventures to nan state to declare her inheritance, but she’s forced to face nan land’s existent occupants arsenic good arsenic its dark, convulsive legacy.
