Salient. Victoria University Student Newspaper. Volume 39, Number 14, 5 July 1976.
Thursday, July 15 at 2, 5.15 and 8.15 — Middle of the World
Thursday, July 15 at 2, 5.15 and 8.15
Middle of the World
Switzerland 1974 Wellington Premiere Chosen for the Locarno, New York and London Film Festivals 1974; Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals 1975.
Director Alain (La Salamander) Tanner's films have always been on the cutting edge between social problems and sexual ones. This new film - his first in colour - is no exception. An extra-marital affair between an engineer and an emigrant waitress (a stunning performance by Olimpia Carlisi) founders because physical obsessions are powerless against social differences. "Coolly intelligent and subtle." - Time Magazine. "One of the best films about the nature of passionate love." -New Yorker.