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Musil the man without qualities5/10/2023 A deep-seated respect for craft is palpable throughout the movie. Schäublin’s grandmother worked in a watch factory and was responsible for making the balance wheel, or unrueh, of the mechanism. Breitling, too, originated in Saint-Imier. The valley of Saint-Imier was the hometown, and continues to be the base of operations, for the luxury watch company Longines. “Unrest” is predicated on historical fact, both in terms of family history and broader currents of culture. Boffo box office numbers can’t have been uppermost in the director’s mind. Schäublin confabulate to get funding for that idea? “Unrest” is also a period picture, taking place in a remote township in 19th-century Switzerland. It’s odd enough that a film should be dedicated, with a conspicuous level of particularity and tenderness, to watch-making, but anarchism as well? What kind of elevator pitch did Mr. Did anyone think to ask, though, if it would be synchronized? That’s one question raised by “Unrest,” the quixotic new film by writer and director Cyril Schäublin. “The revolution will not be televised,” Gil Scott-Heron intoned famously toward the tail end of the 1960s.
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