The 76th edition of the prominent Swiss fest dedicated to indie cinema will run Aug. Previous recipients of the Locarno award include Samuel Fuller, Jean-Luc Godard, Ken Loach, Sidney Pollack, Abbas Kiarostami, and and Agnès Varda. A lover of American absurdism, Korine embraces the same debauchery that the great country so often sweeps under. So it is with The Beach Bum, his new, candy-colored version of a ’70s stoner film, set, like Spring Breakers, in a Southern Florida that feels very much like the edge of the world. The director has chosen “Gummo” and “Spring Breakers” as his films that will screen as tributes. Few filmmakers are as proudly counter-cultural and yet so consistently successful as Harmony Korine, a director who constantly pushes the boundaries of the medium with his extraordinary creative vision. Wild at heart, grotesquely beautiful, always poetic, Harmony Korine’s tales of the margins often come with unexpected pockets of wisdom. He will hold an onstage conversation on Aug. Korine is expected to be on hand on the Swiss fest’s 8,000-seat Piazza Grande to receive the award on the evening of Aug. “Now that a key cult movie like ‘Spring Breakers has chalked up its tenth anniversary, giving the Pardo d’onore Manor award to Korine is a celebration of the infinite forms of cinema,” the Locarno chief went on to note. cinema, without ever losing the smile on his face or the sheer fun of it all.” Nazzaro went on to praise Korine for being “A rebellious anarchist – both dangerous and poetic in his amused, cultivated radicalism” and said that “Korine redefined the term “maverick” in U.S. Gummo is a 1997 American experimental drama film written and directed by Harmony Korine, starring Jacob Reynolds, Nick Sutton, Jacob Sewell, and Chloë Sevigny. “Harmony Korine is hard to pin down, difficult to categorize as a filmmaker, but he is an artist whose touch is unmistakable in whatever form,” said in a statement Locarno’s artistic director Giona A. Then came “Spring Breakers” in 2012 and “The Beach Bum” in 2019. Harmony Korine: Interviews tracks filmmaker Korines stunning rise, fall, and rise again through his own evolving voice. Korine wrote the controversial script for director Larry Clarke’s KIDS when he was still a teenager. Selena Gomez, Vanessa Hudgens, Rachel Korine, Ashley Benson, James Franco, Heather Morris. Korine’s second feature “Julien Donkey-Boy,” the experimentally told story of a schizophrenic, went to Venice in 199 and was followed in 2007 by “Mister Lonely” and grotesque comedy “Trash Humpers” in 2009. Harmony Korine has written and directed several extremely disturbing and weird films.
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