In a Year With 13 Moons
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Actor: Elisabeth Trissenaar, Eva Mattes, Gottfried John, Ingrid Caven, Volker SpenglerDirector: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Brand: Music Video Dist
Writer: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); German (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-13
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Fantoma
Movie Reviews of In a Year With 13 Moons
Movie Review: In a year of personal catastrophe.
Summary: 5 Stars
"Every seventh year is a lunar year. Those people whose lives are essentially dominated by their emotions suffer particularly strongly from depressions in these lunar years. The same is also true of years with 13 new moons, albeit not quite so strongly. And if a lunar year also happens to be a year with 13 new moons, the result is often a personal catastrophe."
During his short life (1945-1982), Rainer Werner Fassbinder made 43 films in all, establishing him as one of the most prodigious directors in film. Many of his films involve characters considered to be social deviants. Inspired by his romantic relationship with butcher Armin Meier, who starred in seven of the director's films before committing suicide in 1978, Fassbinder's film, In a Year of 13 Moons (In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden), is about a personal catastrophe. It tells the story of an unhappy transsexual, Elvira Weishaupt (Volker Spengler), who is forced to confront her deviant existence after undergoing a sex change for a lover who then left her. The film is set in Frankfurt during a year of 13 moons: 1978, also the year of Meier's suicide. Humiliated by her lover Christoph (Karl Scheydt), Elvira's resulting descent into sadness, emptiness, and loneliness is a universal journey of anyone who has ever been betrayed by love. In a Year of 13 Moons is not so much a film about despair, social cruelty, or ennui, as it is a lesson in what it means to be human, and in compassion for social outcasts. While this was my first Fassbinder film, it does not surprise me that other reviewers below have called In a Year of 13 Moons their favorite Fassbinder film. There is much to love about this film. It is a rare film with the power to change one's perceptions, which is the quality of any truly great work of art.
G. Merritt
Summary of In a Year With 13 Moons
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