Round 5: Tossup 21

Two artists from this country claim that the commercial “Cog,” which depicts Honda Accord parts in a Rube Goldberg-esque chain reaction, plagiarized their film The Way Things Go. An artist from this country inspired the Lemonade scene in which Beyoncé smashes cars with a baseball bat. A director living (15[1])in this country (-5[1])wrote a message in Sharpie on his window that made the co-director of Faces Places cry. A 2014 film brought worldwide attention to a weather formation in this country, the Maloja (“mah-LOH-yah”) Snake. This country was the place of death of both Eugene (*) O’Neill’s daughter Oona and her husband Charlie Chaplin. An actress from this country popularized the two-piece bikini in a beach scene as Honey Ryder, the first Bond girl, in Dr. No. The Clouds of Sils Maria is set in this (-5[1])country, where an assisted suicide service facilitated the death of Jean-Luc Godard. For 10 points, what birth country of Ursula Andress and Bruno Ganz hosts a film festival in Locarno? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Switzerland [or Suisse; or Helvetica] (The two artists are Peter Fischli & David Weiss. The other artist is Pipilotti Rist. Jean-Luc Godard wrote the message that brought Agnès Varda to tears.)
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