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LA PALOMA, 1974
"La Paloma shows beauty and horror and the aesthetic delight growing out of this unnatural mating. It is a masterpiece".
Le Monde |
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| Production: |
Citel Films; Eric Franck, Artco Film |
| Director: |
Daniel Schmid |
| Screenplay: |
Daniel Schmid |
| Photography: |
Renato Berta |
| Sound: |
Luc Yersin |
| Music: |
Peer Raben, Gottfried Hünsberg |
| Editing: |
lla von Hasperg |
| Cast: |
Ingrid Caven, Peter Kern, Peter Chatel, Bulle Ogier, Jéròme-Olivier Nicolin, Béatrice Stoll, Manon, Barbet Schroeder |
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| This heady exercise in excess mixes the operatic passion of La Traviata, stylish decadence of Stroheim and Sternberg, and the macabre glee of Grand Guignol. Ingrid Caven plays Dietrich-like chanteuse stricken with CamilIe-like wasting disease. The disease seems to be arrested when a plump, wealthy young man (Peter Kern) develops a grand passion for her, but mortality raises its grinning skull again when she falls helplessly in love with another man. Jay Cocks in "Time" wrote, "LA PALOMA is a wonderful mad shotgun wedding of high camp move mythology, bad taste, obsessive, romanticism, and impudent satire... Whatever it is, it certainly is some kind of fantastic movie." |
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