Locarno Takeaways, From Emma Thompson’s Savoir Faire to Why More Companies Are Using the Swiss Festival for Premieres to a Raved-About Retrospective

LOCARNO, Switzerland — Unspooling in sweltering humidity, Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival, Europe’s biggest mid-Summer movie event, sometimes dazzled, led by an ebullient Emma Thompson. More than anything else, in industry terms, it underscored how major festivals in the world just below the Big Five of Sundance, Berlin, Cannes, Venice and Toronto, are now realigning and […]