Lisbon: a no-man's-land, adriftsomewhere between space and time. Tanner's complete command of hisexperimental art is nowhere more in evidence than in this film about aman who turns his whole life into an experiment, then grasps forcontrol, super-8 camera in hand. Bruno Ganz is a disaffected sailor whojumps ship in Lisbon and drifts through that city's steep streets andghostly alleyways, going in and out of the ecstasy that comes with beingon the edge. During sleepless nights, and the sleep-filled days in whichtime stops, he falls in love with a woman who works as a barmaid in asailors' dive. All the while he sends cryptic super-8 film messages hometo his wife-impersonal records of streets, building facades, and unknownpeople who somehow must stand in for his experience. With its sailor'shypnotic wanderings through buildings and color, In the White City linksTanner with Raz and also Antonioni; it is another in thisdirector's explorations of the soul when it is knocked off its culturalaxis.