There are many tedious pompous bores but some gems here and there also.
Let me start by a drama that is very good.
"The Invitation" from director Claude Goretta with jean-Luc Bideau.
It is the story of an office party that ends disastrously.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070224/
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/revi...B266838E669EDE
I was unable to find a clip. I found a used VHS tape with English subtitles a few years ago for 99c on Amazon.
"The story focuses on the drama that unfurls within a family when a highway is built right next to their house, blocking their normal route to the outside world (school, work) and making their daily routines a huge challenge. The family’s resolve to stay despite the highway and the noise, danger, and chaos it causes has them adapt in small and drastic ways: Marion, the bookish middle child, wears homemade hazmat suits to deal with the toxic emissions; they cement the walls and windows to reduce the noise. As the tensions within the family caused by the highway start to escalate the humor starts to fade and absurdism sets in, threatening to destroy the once happy-go-lucky family."
This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship.
Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer.
The married couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections.
However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship.
Probably the all time Swiss film hit was the 'Die Schweizermacher ' . This was made in High German and Swiss German. I actually saw the High German version on BBC2 in the UK.
It is at over 30 years old now, but as a satirical comedy on different people wishing to take up Swiss nationality, still has resonances today - such as the immigration police noting what colour bin bags one potential candidate put her rubbish out in...
I love scifi.
I don't speak Swiss German so had to read the subtitles but enjoyed myself. Definitely worth it.
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I could only find the trailer, which looks actually very pretentious.
(I think you can also pay with AIRMILES should you not want to fork out the 20CHF).
Two teenage siblings live high in the alps with their parents. The boy is deaf and cannot speak and the girl would have liked to continue her education but must stay on the farm to help. The farm is a typical mountain farm one would have seen 50 years ago. The siblings fall in love and the consequences are disastrous.