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"Charles...Dead or Alive"
1969
Directed by Alain Tanner

This first feature from Alain Tanner (Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000, Messidor) is a pivotal film that helped revive a dormant Swiss film industry. An incisive, witty look at how society's expectations stifle individualism, the film tells the tale of an upscale watchmaker who drops out his comfortable existence and retreats further and further from the confines of reality. Upset and offended by his behavior, his family has him committed to an asylum. Winner for Best Film at the 1969 Locarno Film Festival. "Beautiful…a poem, a broadsheet, a fable…it has the character of prophecy" (Penelope Gilliatt, The New Yorker). French with English subtitles.  93 minutes.

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