Swiss cinema elbows its way to a place among European giants
Critic Max Borg reflects on the international standing of the Swiss film scene, following Switzerland's guest appearance at the Festival Lumière.
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Critic Max Borg reflects on the international standing of the Swiss film scene, following Switzerland's guest appearance at the Festival Lumière.
Brigitte Roüan. In the story, written by the director herself, David takes Gabrielle and her children climbing in the mountains for the first time. They have a magical day, but on the way back down to Briançon, their car hits a young migrant who is being pursued by the police. David instinctively hides him in his boot. Moved by this child’s fate, he decides to help him at any cost. Gabrielle, on the other hand, has another fight on her hands: her ex-husband has found out about her relationship with David and is taking her to court to regain custody of the children. Caught up in this doubl...
Movie theaters are slowly reopening, but most of the new releases are headed to streaming services rather than the big screen. Whether you're staying at
Movie theaters are slowly reopening, but most of the new releases are headed to streaming services rather than the big screen. Whether you're staying at
As odd as it may sound, there have been instances where French filmmakers have taken a stab at that most seemingly all-American of story genres, the Western. A number of silent Westerns were produced between 1910 and 1915 and there was a minor revival of the genre in the Sixties that probably hit its apotheosis with the release of Louis Malle’s 1965 “Viva Maria!,” a sexy goof in which Brigitte Bardot and Jeanne Moreau played two women named Maria who inadvertently invent the striptease and then become revolutionaries in Central America. More recently, there was the genre-breaking “Bl...