The Marriage of Maria Braun (Fassbinder, 1978): Prince Charles Cinema, 6.15pm
This film, also being screened on September 29th, is part of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder season at the Prince Charles Cinema. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
In 1979, Rainer Werner Fassbinder retreated from the failures of Chinese Roulette and Despair with
what, for him, was an extremely naturalistic and accessible work. The
sublime Hanna Schygulla stars as a plucky frau perennially separated
from her husband, first by war, then by prison, and finally by pervasive
capitalist malaise. She channels her frustrated romantic energy into
the construction of an industrial empire—a plot that mixes love and
money in the manner of Mildred Pierce.
Though Fassbinder takes a more open attitude toward his characters,
letting them exist as fully developed psychological specimens, his
deadly irony continues to operate on the level of mise-en-scene, drawing
his actors into an unstable world of seductive surfaces and shifting
meanings. Fassbinder argues that happiness delayed is happiness denied,
tempering the film's emotion with precise analysis.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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