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.