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Tag Archives: Alain Tanner
“The Middle of the World”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: Alain Tanner’s “The Middle of the World,” released in 1974, is a movie about cultures clashing in the most subtle of ways. Maybe it’s more appropriate to say it’s about cultures slipping past each other in the … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Movies, Politics and Economics, Sex
Tagged Alain Tanner, Feminism, Film, John Berger, movies, Olimpia Carlisi, Philippe Leotard, Roger Ebert, Switzerland, The Middle of the World
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“In the White City”
Fabrizio del Wrongo writes: This oddball meditation on transience is like one of Eric Rohmer’s “season” movies filtered through “Sans Soleil.” The title refers to Lisbon, the Portuguese capital. An alluring hodgepodge of a port city, Lisbon admits to a long history of occupiers — … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Performers, Travel
Tagged Alain Tanner, Bruno Ganz, Film, In the White City, Lisbon, movies, Portugal, Teresa Madruga
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