Word: tanners
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...Does Tanner seriously expect us to feel compelled by characters who deliver such pithy nothings as if they were peace of wisdom? In his next film, we expect to see someone facing the camera head-on and solemnly intoning, "many people say many things," Give me Mr. Natural...
...recent Cambridge appearance of two plans by Alain Tanner, a young Swiss director, provides a suitable target for thought for those concerned with contemporary moral and artistic decay. The widescale ballyboo over these films seems to indicate the final jading of the already over cultized Cambridge film audience...
From this point we follow Charles on his odyssey through the cracks and chinks of Geneva existence when he joins the somewhat enervating life of a Bohemian couple who take him in: in contrast to his seedy surrounding Tanner wants us to feel that Charles's perception and moral purity increase with each passing day. The contradiction is heightened by Charles's capture and internment in a mental hospital: as he understands more and more his society can tolerate him less and less...
Making films about such refugees from rationalized society requires full characterization in order to draw us into the sadness of their fate. Here Tanner's films fail...
Rosemonde is simply doomed; she came from the lower classes and (to Tanner) never got an even break. There is no element of originality in such a story. We would hope there would be some in the treatment of it. There...