Swiss films in Paris
From January 10-20, the Musée d’Orsay is hosting 12 Swiss films as part of an exhibition devoted to Swiss painter Ferdinand Hodler.
Under the title Regards sur la Suisse: le cinéma (“Perspectives on Switzerland: Cinema”), the museum is screening a selection of feature and documentary films made between 1923 and 2007.
Stefan Schwietert’s Echoes of Home [+see also:
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As well as Heinz Bütler’s filmic portrait Ferdinand Hodler - Das Herz ist mein Auge (2004), this brief panorama of Swiss cinema also includes Claude Goretta’s Jean-Luc persécuté (1966) and If the Sun Never Returns (1987); well-known film The Swissmakers (1979) by Rolf Lyssy; Michel Soutter’s Adam et Eve (1983); Jacqueline Veuve’s A Peasant Chronicle (1990); and Fredi M. Murer’s Alpine Fire (1985), a masterpiece by the director of Vitus [+see also:
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interview: Christian Davi
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film profile] (released in France on January 9).
Three silent films are also on the programme: Jean Choux’s The Vocation of André Carel (1925) as opening film; The Kidnapping (1933) by Dimitri Kirsanoff; and Jacques Feyder’s Faces of Children (1923), which closes the series.
(Translated from French)
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