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    Leslie Caron opens Vincente Minnelli's Retrospective at Locarno Filmfest

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    By CWB News Department on 08/04/2011 News

    For the occasion of the Vincente Minnelli Retrospective, Locarno Film Festival has invited the French actress Leslie Caron, one of the stars of An American in Paris (1951) and Gigi (1958) to appear on the Piazza Grande stage for the introduction to the Retrospective On Thursday August 4. Next day at 14.00 at the Magnolia – Spazio RSI, she will participate in an open discussion about her autobiography with the public.

    Retrospective 2011: Vincente Minnelli

    Born in Chicago in 1903, Vincente Minnelli made his full-length directing debut in 1943 with Cabin in the Sky. His next picture, Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), marked the beginning of a long series of masterpieces, whose highlights include The Clock (1945), Ziegfield Follies (1946), The Pirate (1948), Madame Bovary (1949), Father of the Bride (1950), An American in Paris – which won an Oscar for best picture in 1952 – The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), The Band Wagon (1953) and Brigadoon (1954).

    Minnelli’s fame rests securely on the numerous musicals he directed, many of which are celebrated as milestones in the history of the genre. But in the course of his long career the filmmaker tackled a variety of genres, including comedy and melodrama. From the second half of the 1950s he began to broaden the narrative and choreographic scope of his films, producing hits like The Cobweb (1955), Lust for Life (1956), Tea and Sympathy (1956), Gigi (winner of  two Academy Awards, for  best picture and best director, in 1959), Some Came Running (1958), Home from the Hill (1960), The 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) and Two Weeks in Another Town (1962). In 1976 Minnelli directed what was to be his last film, the moving A Matter of Time, starring Ingrid Bergman and his daughter Liza Minnelli.

    By the time of his death in 1986 Vincente Minnelli had completed over thirty features, which stand out for their magisterial use of color and costume and for the brisk and skillful handling of some of Hollywood’s greatest stars of the period, including Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Leslie Caron and Elizabeth Taylor, to name just a few.

    As Olivier Père, Artistic Director of the Locarno Festival, puts it: “Balanced between dream and reality, humanity and cruelty, the real world and a stylized version of it, Minnelli’s films are the high water mark of classic Hollywood movie-making, but at the same time they offer an elegant but highly personal vision of the loves and feelings of passionate characters”.

    All titles will be screened from the best available 35 mm prints, and will be introduced by filmmakers, actors and critics. A round table on the American director and his work will also be held.
    A special book for the retrospective, written by Emmanuel Burdeau, formerly editor-in-chief of Les Cahiers du cinéma, will be published by Capricci in collaboration with the Festival del film Locarno.

    The Vincente Minnelli Retrospective has been organized in collaboration with the Swiss Film Archive.

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