Ticket of No Return (Ottinger, 1979): Barbican Cinema, 6.20pm
This film is part of the Queer 70s season at the Barbican. Full details here.The movie will be introduced by Helen de Witt, a curator, lecturer and writer teaching at UCL, Birkbeck and NFTS. She is a trustee of the Slow Film Festival and a member of queer feminist collective Club Des Femmes.
Chicago reader review:
Of the many films by Ulrike Ottinger that I have seen, this lovely 1979
camp item has given me the most unbridled pleasure. A nameless heroine
(Tabea Blumenschein) arrives in West Berlin on a one-way ticket in order
to drink herself to death, and three prim ladies known as Social
Question (Magdalena Montezuma), Accurate Statistics (Orpha Termin), and
Common Sense (Monika Von Cube) stand around and kibitz. Thanks to the
heroine’s wardrobe, the diverse settings, the witty dialogue, the
imaginative mise en scene, and an overall celebratory and festive
spirit, this is a continuous string of delights–worth anybody’s time.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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