The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Actor: Eva Mattes, Gisela Fackeldey, Hanna Schygulla, Katrin Schaake, Margit CarstensenDirector: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Brand: Genius
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: German (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-29
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Fox Lorber
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Summary: 5 Stars
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (1972)
"Love is colder than death" (Other Fassbinder's early films from 1969), could be one of the epigraph of this movie. That show us that doesn't matter what sexual orientation are you directed to, love wasn't and easy task to live in.
Petra van Kant (Margit Castersen) is a Diva in fashion designer, a selfish narcissistic personality. She has a secretary and co-designer, Marlene (Irm Hermenn) that was also his lover, now is more a sado - masoquistic relationship, in the psychological arena. A beautiful girl that what to be a model was introduced by a friend. Karin a 23 years old (Hanna Shygulla), that did not know how to do really in life but to live in a parasitic way, using what mother nature gave to her.
Interestingly Marlene did not speak during the movie. She accepts her peripheral situation because she did need to decided about nothing. Except when Petra changed the way of dealing with her, after Karin dumped her. Then Marlene could not stand that and runaway from Petra's home. The desire and power, was a central issue in the film, and a gigantic painting in the wall address that: "Midas and Bacchus". Petra was born with a kind of gift for fashion design, but that is not enough for to be happy, Midas is asking for advice to a nude Baccus. So to be rich and famous it is not a receipt for happiness, a pleasure godess may have some other approach, as we will learn watching this drama.
This movie with his theatrical design and shooting, is a careful study about three female personalities, so Reinner displayed what he knew better about everything: The women soul.
Summary of The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 06/19/2007 Run time: 124 minutes Rating: NrRainer Werner Fassbinder adapted his own play for this modern twist on The Women, the great all-female Hollywood classic of sex and social conventions in high society. Margit Carstensen is successful dress designer Petra, Irm Hermann her silent, obedient secretary/servant/Girl Friday Marlene (whom she alternately abuses and ignores), and Hanna Schygulla the callow, shallow young Karin, a seemingly naive blond beauty Petra treats as part proteg?e, part pet, until the calculating kitten turns on Petra. Michael Ballhaus's prowling camera finds Marlene silently hovering on the borders of Petra's dramas, looking on through doors and windows like an adoring lover from afar. Bouncing between catty melodrama and naked emotional need, it's a quintessentially Fassbinder portrait of doomed love, jealousy, and social taboos. The DVD features commentary by Fassbinder scholar Jane Shattuc, the early 1966 Fassbinder short films The City Tramp and The Little Chaos, the bonus documentary Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and filmographies. --Sean Axmaker
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