Quote:
Marcel Martin, International Critics Week (Cannes 1974):
This is the most perfectly Brechtian film to come along in some time. This qualification, unfortunately too often used up, is here in evidence in the treatment of the image and the sound (use of intertitles and of off- screen voice) as well as in the conception of the entire work. The Death of the Flea Circus Director is a kind of political fable.

Flea circus director Ottocaro Weiss, delightfully interpreted by François Simon, must find something else to do after the death of his crafty insects. During a village wake he discovers that the memory of the plague can shake people out of their consumer- sleep. At the same time, a mysterious capitalist decides that the terror springing from an eventual plague epidemic could be an agent for the revival of faith, and a good occasion for him to gain control of an increasingly subversive society. Ottocaro, without knowing it, becomes the tool of the diabolical capitalist.

«Ideas have as much contaminating power as diseases» states one subtitle. But, while the director is a true revolutionary, the capitalist is obviously trying to propagate reactionary ideas against the red plague («A red spectre haunts Europe», wrote Karl Marx, «the one of communism»), and he wants to rouse a black plague (fascism) which would throw the terrorised and lost population towards «law and order». When he is caught, he regrets that he has not paid attention to the fact that Weiss is a Jew, and was therefore «a natural fomentor of revolution».

Thomas Koerfer’s ending, in which one can easily recognise the influence of the German school, in particular Alexander Kluge, is a brilliant example of the blossoming of Switzerland’s cinema. The film is a difficult and dense piece of work that requires constant attention. If it’s very serious moral leads to reflection, the humour that nourishes it and the pleasure it gives us are worthy of Master Brecht.

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The post Thomas Koerfer – Der Tod des Flohzirkusdirektors AKA Death of the Flea Circus Director (1973) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Arthur and Marcel, two firemen, keep boredom at bay by improvising on stage, one on a keyboard the other on drums, tunes, poems and songs. Carol arrives, in search of her lover Armand. Accompanied by the musicians, she sings of her strange loves and leaves. Then Armand turns up, in search of Carol, and the disturbing Cigare…

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Language:French
Subtitles:English,German

The post Michel Soutter – Les nénuphars (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
‘George takes care of his invalid wife and holds down a full-time job but is forced into retirement for health reasons. When an investment firm wipes out his life savings, George takes up a life of crime. He is soon driven to the brink of insanity over the unfortunate series of events that transpire.’ [Edited to correct inaccuracies.]
– Dan Pavlides

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Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Claude Goretta – Le fou AKA The Madman (1970) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
That the critics baptized the wave which emerged at this time as the “new Swiss cinema” simply reflects the fact that the “old” Swiss cinema was unknown to the cinema-going public. Today, the appeal and energy of this first film remain undiminished, magnified by the exceptional stature and presence of François Simon and the sublimely uncluttered camera work of Renato Berta. Tanner drew his subject matter from what he saw of the events of May ’68 in Paris, which he covered for Swiss television. Unimpressed by the ideological pronouncements of the young demonstrators (Tanner was nearly 40 and mistrustful of the siren songs of militancy), he was more struck by the elderly people marching alongside them.

The film therefore paints the portrait of an old man who decides to abandon his comfortable bourgeois way of life and live with a bohemian couple. There he rediscovers his freedom to think and his joie de vivre. As Mireille Amiel points in Cinéma 70: “Charles, Dead or alive, which the author himself defines as a ‘small-scale historical fresco’ is a good example of the best of political cinema in our developed Western societies.” It is also worth adding another, definitive judgment, pronounced by Jean-Louis Bory in Le Nouvel Observator: “It is the most intelligent film inspired by the spirit of May ’68.”

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Language:French
Subtitles:English

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