Switzerland

  • Christian Schocher – Reisender Krieger (1981)

    1981-1990Christian SchocherDramaExperimentalSwitzerland
    Reisender Krieger (1981)
    Reisender Krieger (1981)

    This is a portrait of a man and of a country, as he travels through it. He is a travelling salesman, and travels through Switzerland selling cosmetics to beauty parlours.
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  • Jean-Luc Godard – Opération ”Béton” AKA Operation ”Concrete” (1953) (HD)

    Jean-Luc Godard1951-1960DocumentarySwitzerland
    Opération ''Béton'' (1953)
    Opération ”Béton” (1953)

    Jean-Luc Godard’s first film. After returning to Switzerland, Godard went to work as a manual worker at a dam building site, using the money he earned to buy a camera, and making a short documentary about the building of the Grand Dixence Dam.
    (Also known as Operation ”Concrete”.)Read More »

  • Claude Goretta – La Mort de Mario Ricci AKA The Death of Mario Ricci (1983)

    Claude Goretta1981-1990DramaMysterySwitzerland
    La Mort de Mario Ricci (1983)
    La Mort de Mario Ricci (1983)

    Quote:
    A country road glimpsed through a dirty windscreen… a mangled car wreck on a garage forecourt…Volonté blowing up an inflatable coat hanger and reminding his assistant that ‘it’s the details that count’. And so they clearly do in Goretta’s film, although quite what they add up to is never sharply defined. A crippled TV journalist (Volonté) arrives in a Swiss village to interview a specialist in world food shortages disillusioned by the non-application of his theories. But he soon becomes embroiled in a web of local intrigue resulting from the death of a young immigrant worker. Goretta counterpoints his two stories with deft assurance, letting them strike subdued ironies off one another; there are thematic strands galore here, clearly signposted but seemingly left deliberately smudged. Yet there is no shortage of delights either: fine atmospherics, immaculately fluid camerawork, and a towering performance from Volonté, sympathy and disdain flickering back and forth across those marvellously expressive features.Read More »

  • Kurt Früh – Dällebach Kari (1970)

    Kurt Früh1961-1970ClassicsDramaSwitzerland
    Dällebach Kari (1970)
    Dällebach Kari (1970)

    Probably Früh’s most unique work: an elliptical sort-of-biopic about Karl Tellenbach, a barber from Bern, who was known in the whole city for his strange, unhinged jokes. Also, a dark, desperate film about alcoholism and loneliness. In a way, DÄLLEBACH KARI sees an old master discovering modernism – indeed, today the film is thought of as an important part of the New Swiss Cinema. At the same time, the film might be seen as a reflection of Früh’s own personal and artistic struggles.Read More »

  • Anne-Marie Miéville – Après la réconciliation AKA After the Reconciliation (2000)

    Anne-Marie Miéville1991-2000ArthouseDramaSwitzerland
    Après la réconciliation (2000)
    Après la réconciliation (2000)

    Plot:
    Two women and two men meet, converse with one another and ask questions, even about the use of words, but especially about fundamental matters concerning happiness and love. Is the harmony of love reconcilable with wisdom and intelligence, with fear and fatigue? With humour, seriousness and pleasure, these men and women, who know the price of existence, seek their road together.Read More »

  • Valentin Merz – De noche los gatos son pardos (2022)

    2021-2030FantasySwitzerlandValentin Merz
    De noche los gatos son pardos (2022)
    De noche los gatos son pardos (2022)

    A crew is shooting a libertine costume film when Valentin, the director, suddenly disappears. While the local police investigate, the film shoot continues but takes an odd turn. Robin, the cameraman and director’s lover, follows a promise.Read More »

  • Carmen Jaquier – Foudre AKA Thunder (2022) (HD)

    2021-2030ArthouseCarmen JaquierDramaSwitzerland
    Foudre (2022)
    Foudre (2022)

    Summer 1900, Switzerland.
    Elisabeth, 17, is about to take her vows when the sudden death of her older sister forces her to leave the convent and return to the family farm. Stifled by the suffocating and strict rules of the village, walking in her sister’s step to uncover the mystery of her death, Elisabeth is slowly driven to rebel against the local order and for her right to live her life.Read More »

  • Carmen Jaquier – Foudre AKA Thunder (2022)

    2021-2030ArthouseCarmen JaquierDramaSwitzerland

    Summer 1900, Switzerland.

    Elisabeth, 17, is about to take her vows when the sudden death of her older sister forces her to leave the convent and return to the family farm. Stifled by the suffocating and strict rules of the village, walking in her sister’s step to uncover the mystery of her death, Elisabeth is slowly driven to rebel against the local order and for her right to live her life.Read More »

  • Kurt Früh – Café Odeon (1959)

    Kurt Früh1951-1960DramaSwitzerland

    Café Odeon
    At the Coffeeshop at the Bellevue in Zurich, where artists, Poets and easy women hang out, Leni shows up. A girl from the country side. Her husband is in jail, and she is looking for her sister Anni. Since the latter is taking off to Milan with her “friend”, Leni lives in her apartment. She frequently meets the high school teacher Prof Kartmann. When he begins to withdraw from her because his wife begins to suspect an affair, Leni takes up a position in the local Café. She decides to return to her village in oder to wait there for her husband, who, in the meantime, has escaped from the penitentiary.

    A Swiss film in the style of the italian Neo-Realism.Read More »

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