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Accuser, The
Scrumbled eggs
Butterfly on the shoulder
Rough Day for the Queen
Return to Marseille
Jonah who will be 25 in the year 2000
Messidor
Middle of the World
Your turn, my turn
Escapade
Location Hunting
Surveyors, The
Girl with the Cello, The
Kathy's Curse
New York Blackout

Films suivants

Middle of the World

1977

TITLE

Middle of the World

DIRECTOR

Alain TANNER

CAST

Juliet BERTO, Olimpia CARLISI, Jacques DENIS, Philippe LÉOTARD

SYNOPSIS

A married engineer who's running for parliament in Switzerland becomes obsessed by a waitress whom he glimpses at a railroad café. He pursues her, they revel in their sexual affinities, he loses the election (but doesn't care), he wants to marry her, and she leaves him.

The movie takes a profound, tough subtle, stand against treating women as objects. It tackles (through a love story) the divides between rich and poor (particularly the weathly North and the immigrant South) and between men and women.

Festivals

CREDITS
 
Country of origin
France - Suisse
 
Genre
Comedy drama
 
Production year
1977
 
Original language
French
 
Dubbed versions
German, Spanish
 
Subtitled versions
Spanish, English
 
Lenght
110'
 
Other titles
Le Milieu du Monde
REVIEWS

"By portraying inequality so quietly, the theme has all the more impact, and the film goes on echoing in your mind well after you have seen it."
The New York Times (Vincent Canby)

"Tanner's most achieved film to date is also his most apparently conventional, the story of a love affair."
Time Out

FESTIVALS

Olimpia Carlisi nominated to British Academy Awards (BAFTA)

festival of Locarno and Festival of San Sebastian

New York Film Festival

Film Festival of Teheran : Special Jury Award

FR

 

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