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Despite its brilliant allfemale cast, this is an intensely autobiographical film in which fassbinder portrays himself through petra carstensen, a successful but lonely fashion designer who falls in love with a beautiful younger woman schygulla very different from herself. When choosing where to start in a directors filmography, ive always enjoyed picking at random. An arrogant fashion designer falls in love with an icy beauty who wants to be a model. Over the course of 124 minutes, she doesnt have a single line of dialogue. It is dressed to the nines in wigs, gowns and lippy, but it remains a naked account of the most significant and destructive love affair in. Petra had just ended a marriage, but now finds herself enamoured with another. If fear eats the soul used emmi and alis improbable relationship as a key to deepset patterns of social prejudice and fear. Performed in spanish with projected english titles. Some may consider it indulgent of the director and others may find it to be a searing dissection of human relationships.
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Old fitzroy theatre woolloomooloo nsw, oct 11 nov 12, 2016. Johnny cash and the making of bitter tears read full ebook. Petra falls in love with karin and invites her to move in. Recommendations tend to be fairly overwhelming and a total buzz kill. Margit carstensen, hanna schygulla, katrin schaake, eva mattes, gisela fackeldey, irm hermann, michael. It follows the changing dynamics in her relationships with the other women. Fassbinders preoccupations with the themes of love, mortality, sexuality, power and vanity are all on display in this seminal work from the renowned german filmmaker and playwright. The shot tacitly references cukors opening gambit, anticipating a story where elegant surfaces hide toothandclaw instincts. In the early 1970s, rainer werner fassbinder discovered the american melodramas of douglas sirk and was inspired by them to begin working in a new, more intensely emotional register. Also sign me up for fanmail to get updates on all things movies. The film is the 16th made by director rainer werner fassbinder, from the near the beginning of his sirkian phase, in which his rapturous discovery of the work of hollywood melodrama specialist. What marlene does with those pieces will dictate the rest of her life.
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