The Locarno Film Festival is to honour Italian actress, filmmaker and musician Asia Argento with its Life Achievement Award during its 79th edition, which runs August 5-15.
Argento will receive the award in the Piazza Grande on the evening of August 13 and also present Jorge Thielen Armand’s Death Has No Master, which she stars in and which premiered in the Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight earlier this year.
Argento has won best actress David di Donatello awards for Perdiamoci Di Vista (1994) by Carlo Verdone and Traveling Companion (1996) by Peter Del Monte.
With her father, Dario Argento, she starred in Trauma (1993) and The Stendhal Syndrome (1996).
She has also worked with directors including Patrice Chéreau (Queen Margot, 1994), Abel Ferrara (New Rose Hotel, 1998 and Go Go Tales, 2007), Gus Van Sant (Last Days, 2005), George A. Romero (Land of the Dead, 2005), Sofia Coppola (Marie Antoinette, 2006), Olivier Assayas (Boarding Gate, 2007), Catherine Breillat (The Last Mistress, 2007), Bertrand Bonello (On War, 2008), and Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel (Vera, 2022).
She has also starred in blockbusters like xXx (2002), directed by Rob Cohen, and thrillers like The Red Siren (2002), directed by Olivier Megaton.
As a filmmaker, her films include Scarlet Diva (2000), The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004) and the Misunderstood (2014).,
Locarno artistic director Giona A. Nazzaro said: “An artist who has always managed to reimagine what it means to make films, constantly challenging herself and taking personal risks. Driven by a radical creative calling, through which she has probed the limits and explored the possibilities of cinema, both as an actress and as a director, Asia Argento embodies a vitality, generosity, and restlessness that stands as among the most vivid representations of all that cinema still has to offer.”
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