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Darren Aronofsky will beryllium awarded nan honorary Pardo d’Onore grant during this year’s Locarno Film Festival, which runs from August 5 to 15.
Aronofsky will prime up nan grant connected August 14 astatine nan festival’s outdoor cinema astatine nan Piazza Grande and coming 2 of his features, The Fountain (2006) and Mother! (2017).
Previous Pardo d’Onore honorees see Bernardo Bertolucci, Ken Loach, Jean-Luc Godard, Abbas Kiarostami, Terry Gilliam, William Friedkin, Alain Tanner, Jia Zhang-ke, Leos Carax, Werner Herzog, Agnès Varda, Todd Haynes, John Waters, John Landis, Kelly Reichardt, Harmony Korine, Jane Campion, and Alexander Payne.
Locarno Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro described Aronofsky arsenic “an auteur who has made nan sheer unit of creativity, invention, and audacity his trademark.”
“Darren Aronofsky has ne'er grounded to situation conventions and expectations, nor attempted simply to please either nan nationalist aliases nan industry,” Nazzaro said.
“As a filmmaker, he has succeeded successful creating an unmistakable assemblage of work, specified that nan adjective ‘Aronofskian’ is now utilized to characterise a profoundly individual and unconventional style that nevertheless moves freely betwixt different genres and approaches – successful his circumstantial lawsuit anchored successful those themes and obsessions that he has tirelessly explored: faith, motherhood, nan conflicts pinch authoritarian begetter figures, and nan challenges inherent successful nan creation of societies. Aronofsky embodies nan pleasance of cinema arsenic consequence and changeless challenge. Celebrating his activity successful Locarno, welcoming him to nan Piazza Grande, is simply a tribute to creativity’s basal beauty, challenges, and necessity.”
