Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

Messidor (1979)

Messidor poster
Directed by
Alain Tanner
Genre
drama film
Country
France, Switzerland
Runtime
2h
Rated
12
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Two young women travel across Switzerland, moving through landscapes and encountering people. The film follows their journey and the small events that shape it.

road-tripfree-spiritedtranquilobservationalatmosphericslow-burnsubtlemelancholic

What happens

Messidor is a 1979 Swiss-French drama film written and directed by Alain Tanner. It stars Clémentine Amouroux and Catherine Rétoré as two young women travelling across Switzerland. The film premiered in 1979 and was entered in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival. It was later screened at festivals including Solothurn and São Paulo. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?