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Isabella Rossellini will beryllium feted astatine this year’s Locarno Film Festival, which runs from August 5 to 15.
The show will springiness Rossellini its Excellence Award. Previous recipients of Locarno’s Excellence Award see Susan Sarandon, John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Michel Piccoli, Anjelica Huston, Carmen Maura, Isabelle Huppert, and, successful 2025, Golshifteh Farahani.
Locarno Artistic Director Giona A. Nazzaro described Rossellini arsenic a “true fable of modern cinema” successful a connection announcing her honor.
“A singular talent who has ever afloat embraced nan thrill of creator risk, reinvention, and fearless imaginative transformation,” Nazzaro said. “Joyfully unconventional, consistently superb successful her characterisations and choices, Rossellini has made unpredictability her eventual creator signature.”
Nazzaro added: “The Locarno Film Festival is proud and honoured to invited Isabella Rossellini and grant her nan Excellence Award. She remains a visionary and incomparable performer and self-deprecating brilliant whose profound beingness has near an indelible people connected modern cinema done her boundless talent and heavy humanity.”
Rossellini will surface her self-directed web bid Green Porno (2008-09) astatine nan show alongside a action of her different credits, including My Dad is 100 Years Old (2005), Seduce Me (2010), Mammas (2013), abd Darwin, What? and Darwin, What? What?, which she co-directed pinch Paul David Magid successful 2020.
