By: Soleil

Soleil — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 21:29:13 +0000

Merci. Beautiful discovery. My favorite Tanner so far, along with No man’s land.

By: EskimosDon'tWearTies

EskimosDon'tWearTies — Tue, 30 May 2023 22:26:29 +0000

Hilarious, insightful, sexy and genuinely anti-establishment and anarchic without being either in the hippy cliche zone or the Godardian communist poseur coma-inducing borefest zone. A tour-de-force by Bulle Ogier and the two other leads. Great soundtrack by Patrick Moraz as well. The tone of this film is very unique. It doesn’t take itself seriously. There’s no anger in it. It is beyond anger and frustration. Expect absurdity and you’ll never be disappointed or at least you’ll amuse yourself enough to lighten the burden of your chains is what it seems to be saying in every scene and through the attitudes of the 3 main characters. Of course, at the time they didn’t realize that this was a worldwide slave system, they still had some naive high hopes, but like Cortazar says – hope is a feeling that does not belong to us, hope is just life defending itself. And truth, according to Augustine – is like a Lion, you don’t need to defend it, just let it loose, it will defend itself. That’s what the current massive world-wide media censorship is for – to make sure the truth is never let loose enough to be able to defend itself.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 01:49:18 +0000

Great film. Possibly of interest: John Berger, the novelist and art critic, co-wrote the script with Alain Tanner and they did a few more movies together afterwards.

By: Steves

Steves — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:40:17 +0000

Excellent film! Grand work, Jon!

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