Regie:
Rainer Werner FassbinderKamera:
Michael BallhausBesetzung:
Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Eva Mattes, Gisela Fackeldey, Irm HermannStreaming (1)
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Die erfolgreiche Moderschöpferin Petra von Kant lebt in einem opulent eingerichteten Wohn-Atelier, zusammen mit ihrer Assistentin Marlene, die wortlos alle Launen ihrer Chefin über sich ergehen lässt. Petra verliebt sich unsterblich in die deutlich jüngere Karin, die daraufhin versucht, die wohlhabende Designerin auszunutzen, ohne ihre eigene Freiheit aufzugeben. Als sich Karins Mann überraschend aus Australien zurückmeldet, zieht Karin wieder zu ihm. Für Petra bricht eine Welt zusammen. (Verleiher-Text)
(mehr)Kritiken (2)
It is not completely a bad idea that the film was made as an adaptation of a play. The golden era of theater and tragedy, baroque and classicism, as if they spoke to us from the screen differently than through a baroque painting on the wall. Similarly, we can also find the protagonist of these bygone times here - a nobleman, or rather a noblewoman (Petra is from the von Kant family). Her behavior is thus a reproduction of the actions of these people: wealth and idleness (although verbally it is the opposite), arbitrary and also patrimonial, hence a personal relationship with the servants, detachment from her own children (boarding school), but also depth and tragic grandeur towards those she loves. Her demand for an equal amount of affection cannot be fulfilled by the worker Karin, who cannot give everything in their relationship because equality is necessary in a two-way relationship. In that, the main character is sincerely pitiful - as an aristocrat, she is able to give everything (and we should believe that in the film), but only if she wants to. The mirror of this relationship is the maid, Marlene, who carries an ambiguous message in the end.
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No, I just didn't enjoy this. The movie felt too static to me, there was very little happening and the dialogues didn't interest me as much as I thought and wished they would. It was definitely a bold move to adapt theater into a film, but for me, this just doesn't work that well and I would rather watch something else, something shorter.
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