Topic: Alain Tanner

[Lost Oliver]

Any fans? I saw Charles, Dead or Alive the other day on Mubi and thought it was excellent. Just my kind of film.

Any recommendations on what I should watch next?

[chveik]

only seen La Salamandre, which is pretty good, strongly influenced by the nouvelle vague and Bulle Ogier is always wonderful

[Lost Oliver]

Thanks, I'll watch that second. Were him and John Berger bessies or something?

[dissolute ocelot]

Tanner is brilliant, there's no other director who makes films that are about politics that feel so effortless and natural and un-preachy. I've only seen Charles and Jonah Who Will Be 25 In The Year 2000, but both are great. Jonah (co-written by John Berger) is definitely worth watching: it inspired The Big Chill and Return of the Secaucus Seven, but is much better and more politically astute than either, about a bunch of former young radicals who've all settled on different paths in the mid 70s. It also features adorable French actor Miou-Miou singing a song about the oppression of the masses, and an entertainingly awful teacher who gets fired for telling his class he wants a threesome. Plus lots of vegetable farming and tomfoolery.