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La Salamandre

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La Salamandre
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NR,2hrs 3min
Genres:
Comedy,Drama
Released:
August 3, 1972
Director:
Alain Tanner
Distributor:
New Yorker Films
Starring:
Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Denis, Pierre Holdener  ...more
Synopsis: This Swiss-made film closely examines the character of a non-conformist, a subject of unending interest to the reputedly highly conformist Swiss. A TV journalist reads of a lawsuit, dropped for lack of evidence, in which a girl is accused of deliberately shooting (and wounding) her uncle. For some reason, this piques his interest, and the journalist even goes so far as to talk a novelist friend of his into joining him in researching the incident. As their research and interviews proceed, it becomes ... Full Synopsis
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Richie Unterberger, AMG Review
In La Salamandre, Alain Tanner, as he had in his previous feature, Charles Mort ou Vif, takes his main characters from the fringes of orderly Swiss society: a young woman with a controversial past who can't hold a job, a freelance journalist who decides to document her story for television for easy cash, and another freelance writer who fits his work around housepainting gigs. It's a similarly bleak, ... Full Review
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