The Locarno Film Festival is perhaps the world's most discreet, but also among the most glamorous, held in a small Swiss town every summer on the shores of Lake Maggiore. Beginning yesterday and running until August 11, the 65th festival is welcoming such celebrities as the singers Kylie Minogue and Harry Belafonte, and the screen stars Ornella Muti, Charlotte Rampling and Alain Delon, who will rub shoulders with the public in the Piazza Grande.
This immense square in the centre of Locarno, bordered by historic palaces and arcades, nightly becomes a vast open-air cinema with a giant screen, where almost 8, people can watch a film after dark. The event, which has found its annual slot between Cannes in May and Venice in late August, will present about films.
The large number is due to extensive tributes paid to actors such as Delon, as well as this year's retrospective, which is devoted to the Austrian-born director Otto Preminger. Lahore Qalandars for 4 in Mina Al-Oraibi: Suleimani death casts a long shadow over decade ahead. National Editorial: Hezbollah's murky dealings in Iraq have been unveiled.
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