by Daniel Schmid
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 Camille-like wasting desease. The desease 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 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.
CH 1974, 35mm, Farbe, 104', Fiction
Original: German
Written and directed byDaniel Schmid
Cinematography: Renato Berta
Editing: Ila von Hasperg
Sound: Luc Yersin
Music: Gottfried Hünsberg
Cast: Ingrid Caven, Peter Kern, Peter Chatel u.a.
Production: Citel-Films, Genf, Artcofilm, Genf, Les Films du Losange, Paris
World Sales: T&C EDITION
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