Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense (2010)

• 75%
• 2010
• Dokumentarfilm
• Daniel Schmid
• Ingrid Caven
• Rainer Werner Fassbinder

The gray rock of Mount Flimserstein. The luminous rectangle of a screen in an old cinema Paris. The glittering skyscrapers of Tokyo. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» is a cinematic journey comprising a rich array of images and memories marking an outstanding career. The first feature-length film by Pascal Hofmann and Benny Jaberg dokumente the eventful life and cineastic legacy of an exceptional Swiss director of both filme and operas. It spans his formative childhood in a Belle-Epoque-hotel in the mountains Graubünden, and follows his escape from the peaceful Alps to turbulent 1960s Berlin, his love for the cinema, and his encounters with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It delves into the worldly nightlife of 1970s Paris, and shows Schmid filming on location in Marokko, Portugal, and his native Graubünden. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense» spuren-the eventful life of a gifted artist. It is a film about arriving, time and again, and about taking leave, for ever. «Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui ...