All Power to the Imagination! // alain tanner event
Charles, Dead or Alive / Charles mort ou vif
France | 1969 | b&w | 93 mins | dir. Alain Tanner, with François Simon, Marcel Robert
Tanner's satirical social comedy examines the life of a well-to-do businessman who, on the anniversary of his company's founding, finds himself suffering from depression and starts worrying about the workers in his factory. He leaves his comfortable life behind and shacks up with a bohemian couple and their daughter, only to find his new-found freedom under threat from his son, who tries to take over the company and have him declared insane.
