La Salamandre
1971, NR, 125 min.
Directed by Alain Tanner, Starring Bulle Ogier, Jean-Luc Bideau, Jacques Denis.
This French movie is a charming exercise in truth-telling. A journalist and a novelist, both men, separately investigate the murder charges against a woman, and in the process, become hopelessly taken with her. Fact, imagination, interviews, observations, and memories all commingle for fascinating results.
This article appears in July 1 • 2005.
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