Tag: Cinema of Switzerland
La cache (The Safe House) | 2025 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Review
May Days: Baier’s Broad Commentary on a Revolutionary Footnote
“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people,” said Eleanor Roosevelt. Dipping...
The Sparrow in the Chimney | 2024 Locarno Film Festival Review
There’s a Ghost in Me: Zurcher Explores the Necessity of Destruction
Amidst all the existential dread in Franz Kafka’s body of work, silver linings abound,...
2024 Oscars: Carmen Jaquier’s “Thunder” is Switzerland’s Nomination for Best International Film
Switzerland is the first country out of the gate to select the film that will represent one of the almost 90+ film nation options...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #174. Simon Jaquemet’s Electric Child
Electric Child
For his third feature film, Swiss filmmaker Simon Jaquemet moves into English language terrain with what is coined as an arthouse take on...
Thunder (Foudre) | 2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Jaquier’s Exploration of Spiritual and Sexual Awakening is a Divine Debut
Work, marriage, death. These pastoral images of peasant women by long forgotten Swiss painters...
Continental Drift (South) | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Conventional Liaisons: Baier Leans into the Comedy of Crisis Through Familial Rift
Swiss director Lionel Baier completes the third section of an intended four part...
The Girl and the Spider | Review
A Roommate of One’s Own: The Zurcher Bros. Cast a Spell in Weirdo Existential Melodrama
The two central characters of Ramon and Silvan Zurcher’s enchantingly...
A Piece of Sky (Drii Winter) | 2022 Berlin International Film Festival Review
Poor Cow: Koch Devises Solemn Melodrama of a Tortured Romance
Delivering a steady handed narrative as full of sincerity as it is austerity, Swiss director...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #42. Ursula Meier’s La ligne
La ligne
Excluding her docu features, Ursula Meier is now at the three feature film mark with La ligne (The Line) - a project that...
The Unknown Man of Shandigor (1967) | 2021 Fantasia Film Festival Review
Cold Cuts: Roy’s Nuclear Spy Thriller Renews Its Half-Life
In The Unknown Man of Shandigor, one can experience a cinematic time capsule of corresponding themes...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #12. The Girl and the Spider – Ramon Zürcher
Das Mädchen und die Spinne
Swiss director Ramon Zürcher at last returns with sophomore feature, Das Mädchen und die Spinne (The Girl and the Spider), a...
