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Topic: Charles mort ou vif


  
  Alain Tanner
On the 100th anniversary of the Dé family's watch factory, the third generation owner and company president, Charles (François Simon), is awkwardly (and reluctantly) greeted with a venerated speech delivered by an obliging worker for the benefit of a rolling television camera.
Charles, Dead or Alive is a spare, remarkably lucid, and intelligently realized portrait of obsolescence, isolation, and existential angst.
By juxtaposing Charles' figurative moment of mental clarity with his self-imposed exile from a life of privilege, Tanner illustrates the profound, disorienting alienation and crisis of identity that arise from such a broad-based, sweeping, cross-cultural social revolution that seeks to uproot entrenched customs and outmoded traditions.
www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/tanner.html   (203 words)

  
 Le masque de la mort rouge, Edgar Poe -- Traduction de Charles Baudelaire
Ce fut vers la fin du cinquième ou sixième mois de sa retraite, et pendant que le fléau sévissait au-dehors avec le plus de rage, que le prince Prospero gratifia ses mille amis d'un bal masqué de la plus insolite magnificence.
C'était dans la chambre de l'est ou chambre bleue, que se trouvait le prince Prospero, quand il prononça ces paroles.
Il brandissait un poignard nu, et s'était approché impétueusement à une distance de trois ou quatre pieds du fantôme qui battait en retraite, quand ce dernier, arrivé à l'extrémité de la salle de velours, se retourna brusquement et fit face à celui qui le poursuivait.
www.saltana.org /1/navg/103.htm   (3483 words)

  
 Charles, mort ou vif - Movie Info - Moviefone
Synopsis: Charles (Francois Simon) is a middle aged business man who runs an inherited company.
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 Alain Tanner - Films as Director:
Charles, mort ou vif (Charles, Dead or Alive)
They proposed an idea to Swiss TV for the funding of full-length narrative features to be shot in 16-millimeter and then blown-up to 35-millimeter for release.
The film tells of a middle-aged industrialist who, on the eve of receiving an award as the foremost business personality of the year, discovers his disaffection for the institution-laden society in which he finds himself.
www.filmreference.com /Directors-St-Ve/Tanner-Alain.html   (1060 words)

  
 1969 Chronicle
The Cinema Novo from Brazil was acknowledged by the jury, headed by Luchino Visconti, with the best director award given to Glauber Rocha for his baroque Antonia das Mortes.
Charles mort ou vif, a cruel fable that questions the complacent values of Swiss society, deals with a middle-aged watchmaker (François Simon, Michel Simon's son), who abandons the rat race for a new life.
With Roman Polanski in England preparing a film, his pregnant wife Sharon Tate was killed last night in a particularly shocking manner.
theoscarsite.com /chronicle/1969c.htm   (4055 words)

  
 SANSEBASTIANFESTIVAL.YA.COM
From this moment on his name has been linked with the most prestigious films in Swiss, French and German cinema.
In 1968 he began to work together with Alain Tanner on Charles mort ou vif.
In 1970 he won his first international award for his work in La salamandre, also by Alain Tanner.
www.sansebastianfestival.com /2002/ing/asifue02_1.htm   (1599 words)

  
 Archives du jeu ciné FRCD - Liste des films déjà proposés au jeu (titres originaux)
Course à la mort de l'an 2000, La
KISS meets the Phantom of the Park (TV)
Land of the dead - Le territoire des morts
siboul.free.fr /archives0121/titresvo.php   (357 words)

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