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‘The stainless-steel surfaces, the small window hatch, the industrial dishwasher, the double deep fat fryer.’

Alain Tanner, a pioneering director in the Swiss New Wave movement that took off in the 1970s, known for his cerebral, left-leaning films that challen

Godard’s body of work is peculiar in that, at the time of his death, it could be argued that he had not directed a genuinely significant work in half a century.

With his brainy works of neorealism, he made films that helped establish Switzerland as a film center in the 1970s.