{"id":637,"date":"2007-08-15T16:25:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T16:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/14\/alvares-best-of-locarno\/"},"modified":"2015-03-13T18:49:54","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T18:49:54","slug":"alvares-best-of-locarno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=637","title":{"rendered":"Marian Alvares wins best actress at Locarno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Marian-\u00c1lvares-x650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5054\" src=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Marian-\u00c1lvares-x650.jpg\" alt=\"Marian-\u00c1lvares x650\" width=\"633\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Marian-\u00c1lvares-x650.jpg 633w, https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/Marian-\u00c1lvares-x650-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By Ray Bennett<\/p>\n<p>LOCATION, Switzerland \u2013 Marian Alvares thoroughly deserved the best actress prize at this year&#8217;s Locarno International Film Festival as her performance in Roser Aguilar&#8217;s &#8220;The Best of Me,&#8221; a winning drama about two young people facing life-threatening illness, was outstanding. as I say in my review in The Hollywood Reporter:<\/p>\n<p>Michel Picolli&#8217;s wily contribution to a weak French film by Hiner Saleem titled &#8220;Beneath the Rooftops of Paris&#8221; was always going to catch the eye of the jury so his acting prize was no surprise.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese director Masahiro Kobayashi&#8217;s well-meaning but monotonous &#8220;Rebirth,&#8221; which won the Golden Leopard, is a film only festivals could love.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s too bad there&#8217;s no music prize at Locarno as French composer Cyril Morin deserves acclaim for his rich and evocative score for Jacob Berger&#8217;s cautionary tale &#8220;1 Journee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ray Bennett LOCATION, Switzerland \u2013 Marian Alvares thoroughly deserved the best actress prize at this year&#8217;s Locarno International Film Festival as her performance in Roser Aguilar&#8217;s &#8220;The Best of Me,&#8221; a winning drama about two young people facing life-threatening &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/?p=637\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[2679,2677,2678,2672,2676,2671,2675,2674,2673],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-news","tag-1-journee","tag-beneath-the-rooftops-of-paris","tag-rebirth","tag-the-best-of-me","tag-cyril-morin","tag-marian-alvares","tag-masahiro-kobayashi","tag-michel-picolli","tag-roser-aguilar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5055,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/5055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecliffedge.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}