In the White City
Time Out says
Ganz, that great loner of modernist cinema, here plays a Swiss seaman who jumps ship in Lisbon, gets involved with a barmaid, and sends reels of home movies back to his wife. Adrift in the exotic White City, he is robbed and then stabbed, loses the barmaid after a passionate fling, and finally hitting rock bottom he raises the fare home. The home movies, accompanied by Jean-Luc Barbier's beautiful, hard-edged jazz score, terrifyingly reflect the disintegration of a man in flight from himself. But this is no idling tract on alienation, more an intrigue built around silences, blankness, deceptions of space and time. A teasingly simple film that compels and stimulates.
Details
Release details
Duration:
108 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Alain Tanner
Screenwriter:
Alain Tanner
Cast:
Bruno Ganz
Teresa Madruga
Julia Vonderlinn
José Carvalho
Victor Costa
Teresa Madruga
Julia Vonderlinn
José Carvalho
Victor Costa