The 79th Locarno Film Festival gets underway

The 79th edition of the Locarno Film Festival opens in southern Switzerland with a film musical accompaniment to the silent film The General by Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman. This evening, the Italian actress Isabella Rossellini will receive an award in Piazza Grande. The usual film concert, in collaboration with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana (OSI), conducted by Philippe Béran, will take place at 3.30pm at Palexpo FEVI. Also making its debut from 2pm is the retrospective dedicated to…