Charles, Dead or Alive (1969)

Description

A Geneva industrialist in the midst of a midlife crisis, Charles Dé abandons his company and his family to move to the countryside with a couple of marginalized people... A (chargeable) X-ray of Switzerland in the late 1960s, this first film by Alain Tanner is a bracing and hopeless fable, at once rebellious, deadpan, pathetic, serious and joyful. "It is from Switzerland that we have come, while we are constantly waiting for it in France, the most beautiful cinematic child of May 1968".