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Alain Tanner
Highest Rated: 85% Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1975)
Lowest Rated: 85% Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 (1975)
Birthday: Dec 6, 1929
Birthplace: Geneva, Switzerland
Alain Tanner, with his portraits of life among Geneva's marginal and harmless rebels, can easily be considered the director who introduced American audiences to the fact that it is not only bankers and diplomats who live in Geneva. Influenced by his involvement with the British Free Cinema movement in London in the early 1960s and with the French New Wave during his Paris years, Tanner's films, often co-scripted with the English art critic John Berger, combine a cinema-verite documentary style and with fable-like story telling. A gentle, idiosyncratic anarchy, tinged with irony, suffuses both "La Salamandre" (1971) and "Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000" (1976). His later films, however, have been darker, and in the case of "No Man's Land" (1985), the whimsical optimism of the late 70s has been totally reversed.
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Flowers of Blood |
Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2002 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jonah and Lila, Till Tomorrow |
Director, Producer, Writer |
- | 1999 |
No Score Yet |
|
Requiem |
Director, Writer |
- | 1997 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Man Who Lost His Shadow | Director | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Flame In My Heart (Une flamme dans mon coeur) | Director | - | 1989 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Vallée fantôme | Director | - | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | A Flame in My Heart |
Director, Screenwriter, Co-Producer |
- | 1987 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | No Man's Land | Director | - | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
|
In the White City |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1983 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Light Years Away | Director | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Messidor |
Director, Writer |
- | 1979 |
85% |
|
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000 |
Director, Writer |
- | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Middle of the World |
Director, Writer |
- | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Return from Africa |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1973 |
No Score Yet |
|
The Salamander |
Director, Writer |
- | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
|
Charles, Dead or Alive |
Director, Writer, Producer |
- | 1969 |