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Alain Tanner: Switzerland
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One of Alain Tanner's most beautiful films, In the White City is a haunting, bluesy mood piece that follows a disconnected sailor who decides to jump ship in Lisbon. Bruno Ganz plays this sailor, Paul, a Swiss who suddenly finds himself entranced by the ghostly "white city" on the edge of the Atlantic. He wanders the city's steep streets and labyrinthine alleys, shooting Super-8 films that he sends to his wife back in Switzerland. Jean-Luc Barbier's marvelous jazz score is the perfect complement for Tanner's loose, almost improvisational approach.
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With the appearance of "Paul Is Leaving," Alain Tanner's dry spell has shriveled into barely digestible rawhide for only the most unreconstructed intellectual poseurs. Switzerland's best known helmer gives French pretension a run for its money, while damaging the chance of future gigs for a group of Geneva Acting Conservatory students who are so over-directed that each scene seems a rehearsal in progress. Paul may be leaving, but so are most of the crowds.
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Between 1960 and 1968, Tanner returned to Switzerland, and he made more than 40 films as well as documentaries in this time for French-language television there. in 1962, he became the co-founder of the Swiss young filmmakers' "Groupe Cinque."
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