Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant
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Film critic Molly Haskell called this pivotal Fassbinder film, "A tragi-comic love story disguised as a lesbian slumber party in high-camp drag." The film makes us a witness to the struggles for domination among three lesbians: a successful and "liberated" fashion designer, her contented and silent slave girl, and a sultry but cruel model who ends up making the master her slave. The dynamics of their interrelationships are played out in this claustrophobic, self-contained little world, accompanied only by the music of The Platters and Giuseppe Verdi. A riveting chamber drama of style. With Margit Carstensen, Hanna Schygulla, Eva Mattes and Irm Hermann. In German with Rainer W. Fassbinder---West Germany---1972---124 mins.

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  | bmac#1

My rating of 4 is mostly based on respect rather than pleasure. As ever (almost), Fassbinder is tough going and it's afterwards that, looking back on what I've just seen, I realize, again, how brilliant an artist he is.

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