The Salamander

Co-scripted with John Berger, The Salamander cemented Tanner’s reputation as a filmmaker of rare brilliance. An intelligent look at the consequences of blurring fact and fiction, it focuses on two friends – a journalist and novelist – who are commissioned to write a screenplay based on the shooting of a man, only to become embroiled in a relationship with the key figure in the investigation. Bulle Ogier excels as protagonist at the heart of the drama.