In The White City (Tanner, 1983): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6.35pm
This is a 4K restoration screening and part of the Alfonso Cuáron on Alain Tanner season at BFI Southbank. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
A
sailor (Bruno Ganz) abandons his job as a hand on an automated oil
tanker to spend a few days exploring the city of Lisbon. Suddenly
liberated from purpose, responsibility, and structured time, he finds
that the world looks different to him, and slowly he loses himself in
its newly opened fissures. What gives this 1983 film its authenticity
and powerful moodiness is perhaps the fact that the director, Alain
Tanner, has followed the course of his own protagonist, cutting himself
off from a planned scenario and allowing the shape of the city to
dictate the incidents of his drama. Temperamentally it's like no other
Tanner film (at times, it suggests the work of Wim Wenders), but it has
all his rigor and visual acuteness. With Teresa Madruga (of Manuel de
Oliveira's Francisca).
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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