LA SALAMANDRE A FILM BY ALAIN TANNER CAST: BULLE OGIER JEAN-LUC BIDEAU JACQUES DENIS 125 minutes - Black & white 1970 THE STORY Pierre, a journalist, and Paul, a writer, who has higher aspirations but supports his wife and child by being a house painter, accept a commission to write a television script about a real-life event that, several years before, had made a couple of headlines and then fizzled out. The object of their inquiry is Rosemonde, a pretty seemingly phlegmatic girl who may or may not have tried to kill her uncle with his old Army rifle. Pierre undertakes to do the research, seeking out the uncle, Rosemonde's friends and finally Rosemonde herself, whereas Paul, who abhors facts, prefers instead to exercise his novelist's imagination. "The most interesting foreign film of 1972 and vaults both Tanner and his fascinating star, Bulle Ogier, into the front ranks of European filmmaking." Paul Zimmerman, Newsweek Cannes Festival, Director's fortnight, 1971 Grand Prix de la Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d'Art et d'Essai, 1971 TO SCREEN THIS FILM / POUR VISIONNER : http://www.artevod.com/programDetails.do?emissionId=2249