Movies: Cédric Leproust

Claude Goretta directed “L'invitation” in 1973. For filmmaker Lionel Baier, born in 1975, it is like a “travelling companion”, to adapt Serge Daney’s expression. He feels it is definitive proof that a Swiss can be deeply Chekhovian. The young filmmak...

It’s the end of the day on a Swiss train. Yalini, a Tamil-Swiss woman, receives a call from her parents. As the conversation becomes sensitive and tense, one of the passengers approaches her and expresses annoyance that she’s speaking too loudly. On ...