La Salamandre (1971) Alain Tanner; Bulle Ogier, Jean-Luc Bideau

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This is a region-free DVD-R without case or artwork.

In French with English subtitles. Widescreen.

Pierre (Jean-Luc Bideau), a writer, enlists the help of a friend, Paul (Jacques Denis), to investigate a real-life story in which a young woman, Rosmonde (Bulle Ogier ), was tried for the attempted murder of her uncle. The courts accepted Rosmonde's claim that her uncle accidentally wounded himself whilse cleaning his rifle, and she was acquitted of the alleged crime. Intrigued by the rebellious young woman, Pierre and Paul gain her confidence and try to discover whether she did indeed try to kill her uncle.

Despite being made on a modest budget, La Salamandre stands as a landmark European film. It comes from a time when the Swiss film industry was beginning to gain international interest for the first time, thanks to the emergence of a crop of talented young directors. The film is both a wondrously tongue-in-cheek assault against the staid, phoney morality of the Swiss bourgeoisie, and a timely ironic riposte to the well-meant offerings from the politically minded French New Wave film-makers of the time.

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5 stars	January 11, 2022
Reviewer: MARGARET ROBERTS from WHEATON, IL United States

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Nostalgia	October 15, 2014
Reviewer: Jean Barbey from Washington, DC United States

I am a Swiss citizen in my 60s.
I had not seen this movie since my student days in Geneva...will show it to my grown children next...

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