After 40 years Alain Tanner again travels to the port of Genoa, where he worked for a shipping company as a 22-year-old. On the back of his own memories he depicts the rough world of the dockworkers, another of those trades that has undergone fundamental changes as a result of recessions, modernisation and liberalisation. “The visual impression of the harbour and the city has c...
When, in 1947, a portion of Punjab province was assigned to the newly created Pakistani State, Albert Mayer began planning a new capital for the portion which remained in the possession of India. Le Corbusier had been responsible since the 1950s for general planning and, more particularly, for large-scale buildings typical of the governmental sector. A year after the death of L...
An ageing writer Paul is determined to make a film but he cannot decide on the subject or location. Instead, he chooses to concentrate his efforts on finding the actress who will star in the film, believing that she will define the lead character and content of the film. He recruits a young man, Jean, to try to find an Italian actress, Dara, whom he has lost sight of. Jean find...
''No Man's Land'' was shown as part of the 1985 New York Film Festival. Following are excerpts from Vincent Canby's review, which appeared in The New York Times Oct. 5, 1985. The film opens today at the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette Street.
EACH of the four principal characters in Alain Tanner's ''No Man's Land'' wants to be someplace else.
Madeleine, who runs a disco on the Fr...
Pam, a 14-year-old girl/woman has just killed her lover, a man much older than herself. This event sends us spinning back five years into the past. Pam, 9, is her mother’s dresser, protector and gentle accomplice. She accompanies Lily as she travels from cabaret to cabaret, performing her own special number that transforms the erotic floorshow into a veritable art form, both ma...
After moving to Switzerland to be the mail-order bride of an uncouth middle-aged Swiss man, Julie (Marie Gaydu), who comes from an island in the Indian Ocean, discovers that she cannot bear the man. After she leaves him, she embarks on an affair with Jean (Jean-Philippe Escoffey), the son of a local brickworks owner, much to the distress of that man's father. For a while their ...
The rarely-seen 1994 BBC TV documentary on the legacy and influence of John Berger, featuring interviews with Alain Tanner, Geoff Dyer, Jean Mohr, Ernst Neizvestny and many more.
M夫人在巴黎的歌厅唱歌表演，一天晚上她在那里遇见了一位加泰罗尼亚的画家。由于与歌厅的合约结束，她和画家一起前往卡塔卢尼亚。他们俩走遍全国，互相迸发出热烈的爱恋激情。但当M夫人知道画家有一个非洲妻子，还有一个女儿的时候，她的感受产生重大变化……
本片获洛加诺电影节金豹奖
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瑞士导演Alain Tanner的第一部故事片。1968年，导演曾目睹了5月的巴黎街头景象。他对那些年轻示威者不很感兴趣，但却被那些游行队伍中的年长者所打动。所以他拍摄了这部电影，讲述了一个从资产阶级舒适生活中退出的老头子的故事。影片带有鲜明的1960年代色彩。
故事的主角 Charles 是一个50岁的商人，他继承了家族产业，成为公司老板。在公司的百年大庆上，他似乎一点都高兴不起来，反而看上去一脸沮丧。原来此人与一般资本家不同，他对劳动阶层抱有同情心，此时他担心起工厂里的工人来。
因为工作需要，Charles经常接受电视采访。而就在一次采访结束后，他抛开自己的舒适生活和繁忙生意，离家出走了。
很快他就碰到了同道中人，一对无**主义男女。他们是那种1960年代典型的生活在中产阶级家庭的叛逆青年。后来男青年还把...
Two Swiss girls around twenty, one a history student and the other a store clerk, meet while hitch-hiking. Out of a whim and with nothing better to do, they decide to go on hitch-hiking together around Switzerland as long as they feel like it. After a couple of days, their money is spent in restaurants and cheap hotels, so they continue their tour by sleeping in cattle sheds an...
