Rainer werner fassbinder play, rainer werner fassbinder. Fassbinders mise en scene that its not even duller. His frames seem to utilise both bodies and architecture as a means for. A new interview with film scholar jane shattuc compellingly dissects the film s themes and fassbinders general concerns, while wrestling with whether or not his. Just because there are no men seen on screen does not mean that men do not influence the lives of the female characters. The shot tacitly references cukors opening gambit, anticipating a story where elegant surfaces hide toothandclaw instincts.
Like much of his early work, the film is based on his own play, which limitation fassbinder compounds by refusing to open it out imprisonment and immobility being central fassbinder themes, as well as providing the metaphors that theatre provokes. Hemlines and heartbreak in fassbinders the bitter tears. Hemlines and heartbreak in fassbinders the bitter tears of. Rainer werner fassbinder revels in the fact that petra is played entirely on one set and not an especially large one at that. Some time ago, she divorced the husband she no longer loved. Criterion collection and apichatpong weerasethakul. An intensely autobiographical film in which fassbinder portrays himself through petra carstensen, a successful but lonely. Until recently, she has been in a fairly satisfactory s and m relationship with marlene her secretary, maid, and codesigner. The rest of the film deals with the emotions of this affair and its aftermath. With just six actresses exchanging stilted dialogue on a. The film stylishly depicts the shifting of power in relationships. Fassbinder navigating the single room in which the film takes place in with such an elegant, gifted eye for composition that it boggles the mind the entire film was shot in only 14 days.
That show us that doesnt matter what sexual orientation are you directed to, love wasnt and easy task to live in. It follows the changing dynamics in her relationships with the other women. Fassbinders style, perfectly shown in this film, is based on a well constructed script. My favourite fassbinder film so far, anyway and reminiscent of an ingmar bergman film meets hollywood. Feb 26, 2015 rainer werner fassbinders 1972 lesbian film comes to dvdbluray. In the real world of the film, she is a jetsetter, attending celebrity shows, photoshoots, but in. A fashion designer who treats her personal assistant like a slave falls in love with a woman who does not. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer margit carstensen and a beautiful but icy ingenue hanna schygullabased, in a sly gender reversal, on the writerdirectors own desperate obsession with a young actoris a true fassbinder affair, featuring exquisitely claustrophobic cinematography by michael ballhaus and full.
Enter karin, a 23yearold beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with karin and invites her to move in. The archetypal midperiod fassbinder film of the kind so lovingly pastichedparodied in francois ozons water falling on burning rocks. Its a drama and lgbtq movie with a high rotten tomatoes critics score of 87%. But i was far more emotionally invested in ali than i was in bitter tears. Both films are explorations of love and cruelty, but. She mistreats marlene her secretary, maid, and codesigner. Both films are explorations of love and cruelty, but in bitter tears the lack of redemptive qualities in the characters made the cruelty feel more like just punishment.
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