What is like to live in the locked world of autism? Trish Thalman reviews the film “A Still Jacket” which explores the issue through the eyes of a 26 year old man called Roman living in the Jura hills. Trish says this is “a breathtakingly beautiful aspect of learning about the ‘locked in life’ of Autism […]
“Born under Z ” – The children of colonial Indochina. Film tonight at 20:00
This year Living in Nyon is delighted to have two reviewers at Visions du Réel. Trish Thalman (who reviewed films for this site last year) and newcomer Kathy Morf. They will both be giving their reviews of the films that they have seen at the festival. Many of these reviews will be of films that will be shown again so keep checking the site […]
A great film to open festival and to learn about a Swiss tradition.
A great film to kick off the Visions du Réel festival – “Kampf der Königinnen” – “The fight of the Queens” This film will be shown again tonight Friday 22:30 at the Capitole Cinema 1 and Wednesday 13 at 18:30 at the Usine A Gaz. Remember there is a new ticketing system for the festival this year and […]
The other side of Gstaad and those cow fights – Two Swiss films at Visions du Réel. Festival starts today
Film Festival begins tonight with a free film for the public at the Théâtre du Marens The bright red boards advertising Visions du Réel are now up around the town and everything is in place for another six day film festival (bar any natural disasters – unfortunately last year’s festival was affected by the volcanic eruption in Iceland resulting in many cancelled […]
Jack Johnson, James Blunt, The Strokes, and a Caribbean flavour to Paléo 2011
Photo above: Jack Johnson (courtesy of Paléo festival) The line up for Paléo 2011 has now been revealed and as ever there’s an interesting mix of music on offer from around the world. This year in particular there is plenty on the programme for Anglophones with big names such as Jack Johnson, James Blunt, […]