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Nightclub singer La Paloma succumbs to the persistent courting of a chubby, rich admirer and marries him. Before the marriage, she was thought to be dying, but soon she is well. She believes her husband’s love has cured her, but her efforts to love him begin to fade as she discovers true love with her husband’s old school friend. Adaptation from the novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, “The Lady of the Camellias”.
Director: Daniel Schmid.
Writer: Daniel Schmid.
Stars: Ingrid Caven, Peter Kern, Peter Chatel, Béatrice Stoll, Ludmilla Tucek, Manon, Irene Olgiatti, Pierre Edernac, Bulle Ogier.
Cinematographer: Renato Berta.
Composer: Gottfried Hüngsberg.
1974 Chicago International Film Festival – Nominated for the Gold Hugo.
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I like that with movies, you can do it so that everything is in a second, that the way it begins, it ends—because where are the ends in life? In Tonight or Never the first shot is the same as the last shot. GI I was confused by La Paloma because it only becomes a hallucination at the very end.
More One of the most insanely beautiful openings, but that’s about all folks. If in Shadow of Angels , iconoclastic Swiss director Daniel Schmid demonstrated that, in adapting a play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, he could in effect out-Fassbinder Fassbinder himself, his previous film La Paloma is a far more inscrutable work, and probably more distinctively Schmid’s own.
There’s a beautiful 1080p upgrade out there now with English subtitles. I’ve only been able to find the version without subtitles though!