Charming neighbours (1999)
Claudio Tonetti manages to do just that in this delicious serious comedy with its Röstigraben background. CINEMA TOUT ECRAN
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Karnaval (1999)
Karnaval (…) is an extraordinary film. All the more extraordinary because it is built only with very ordinary elements. LE MONDE, Jean-Michel Frodon
The filmmaker deals with collective release without soliciting the complicit laughter of the spectators. The entire success of his approach is a matter of calculated shamelessness (…) and above all of morality. POSITIF, Françoise AudĂ©
One Evening After the War (1998)
The plot of the film is captivating, full of twists and turns, and Rithy Panh displays a visual sense of rare elegance, served by Christophe Pollock’s talented camera. VARIETY
It is a melodrama, a tragedy narrated in the minor mode – at the level of a handful of modest characters, with their feelings as visible springs of events. LE MONDE
A damning testimony on the decay of Cambodia. TELERAMA
Valkanizater (1997)
A funny, ironic road movie about a couple of rogues trying to make a fast dollar, pic should perform well on its home turf and snag arthouse distribution in other territories, with Eurotube programs also an obvious berth. VARIETY, David Stratton
12 Blind Date (1997)
Blind Date 12 young directors – Switzerland To gather a thousand synopses on the topic «Blind Date» and then select around twenty of them that are to be made into short films, is a way to bring about new encounters and delve into new fantasy worlds. In short, it means to really live the experience the project is about. IMDB SWISS FILMS
Fire in Paradise (1997)
Imhoof treats the central problem of missionary work in a dense and differentiated manner, transferable to almost every form of ideological export. ZURCHER OBERLANDER
Markus Imhoof discovered this story through the stories told by his grandmother. Very calmly, very affectionately he gets involved in a psychodrama as well as in an exotic flair: a clever, thoughtful, extraordinary film. HOFER ANZEIGER
Men of the Port (1995)
After 40 years Alain Tanner again travels to the port of Genoa, where he worked for a shipping company as a 22-year-old. On the back of his own memories he depicts the rough world of the dockworkers, another of those trades that has undergone fundamental changes as a result of recessions, modernisation and liberalisation. LETTERBOXD.COM
Bye Bye (1995)
Bye Bye Karim Dridi – France How Ismael will overcome his guilt, which occurred after a family tragedy which prompted the departure of his parents for the “bled”, and save his brother Mouloud, twelve years old, who refuses to return home, and has connexion with dangerous dealer in Marseille. IMDB
La danse du singe et du poisson (1994)
The first images coming to my mind in connection with the horrors of war are not a city in ruins or a mass grave, but the eyes of the children who survived. These seven young actresses already know the price of life, maybe the only positive aspect of a war. This is what we tried to convey here. Pierre-Alain Meier
Rice People (1994)
Rice People” is a delicate, low-key, beautifully lensed study of a rural Cambodian family that has the beauty but emotional distance of a moving tableau. First feature by Paris-based Cambodian director Rithy Panh should raise ripples on the fest circuit and be appreciated by enthusiasts of east Asian cinema, but its theatrical harvest looks iffy. VARIETY