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La Paloma

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Original title

La Paloma

Year

1974

Running time

110 min.

Country

Switzerland

Director

Daniel Schmid

Screenwriter

Daniel Schmid

Cast

Music

Gottfried Hüngsberg

Cinematography

Renato Berta

Producer

Co-production Switzerland-France;

Artco-Film, Citel Films, Les Films du Losange

Genre

Drama. Fantasy. Romance

Synopsis

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 CamilIe-like wasting disease. The disease 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 mad 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."

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La Paloma

1974

Daniel Schmid

6.8

(23)