Fourbi
Locarno 1996
Fourbi
CH/FR 1996 114'
Director: Alain Tanner
Script: Alain Tanner
Camera: Denis Jutzeler
Editing:: Monika Goux
Music:: Michel Wintsch
Production:: Filmograph SA, Noë Production
With: Cécile Tanner, Antoine Basler, Robert Bouvier
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A large private television channel has just been established in Switzerland. A communications company is given the task of drawing up concepts for programmes and decides to buy the rights for the stories of various criminals from which to produce films. Rosemonde decides to sell her story. Eight years ago, she killed a man who tried to violate her. As there were no witnesses, the case was dismissed for lack of evidence. Kevin, a film producer, charges Paul, a young writer, with the task of writing the scenario relating Rosemonde's life at the time. However, she appears to be incapable of recalling her past and clams up when Paul approaches her with the questions he needs to ask her. Marie, a young actress, is then asked to visit Rosemonde and in exchange is promised the role in the film if she can make her talk. The film relates the strange relationship between the two women who begin to develop a friendship…