VHS : The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
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Rainer 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 protegée, 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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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 ... Read More
Rating: - Fassbinder's women: Petra von Kant.
"People need each other but haven't found a way to live with each other."
Adapted from his own play, film genius Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 1972 film, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant), tells the story of a gifted, self-absorbed fashion designer (Margit Carstensen), whose marriages ended in death and divorce. "He stank of man," Petra says about her ex-husband. Petra now lives in Bremen with her slavish personal assistant Marlene (Irm Hermann), ... Read More
Rating: - She can dish it out, but she can't take it
It is always interesting watching a film where virtually every character (with the exception of Petra's daughter, an innocent victim in all this) is more or less dislikeable. More than one person has found this film inaccessible due to the fact that nearly everyone has mixed motives & hidden agenda.
This also makes it impossible to take satisfaction in Petra's personal disintegration, since Karin is equally manipulative & self-serving. Petra's supreme arrogance makes it impossible ... Read More
Rating:  - There is nothing to review
I would like to review this film but I can not because I have not received it yet. Apparently, you have sent it three times but never got to me. It is like a joke. Can you check your tracking mail number and make a claim to whoever in the post?
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Jose
Rating: - "I think people need each other, they're made that way. But they haven't learnt how to live together." - Petra von Kant
"The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" (1972) - was the first Fassbinder's film I saw many years ago in Moscow and it had started my fascination and interest in the work of the enormously talented man who was a writer/director/producer/editor/actor for almost all his movies. "The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant" is a screen adaptation of the earlier Fassbinder's play and it never leaves the apartment of Petra Von Kant, an arrogant, sarcastic, and successful fashion designer who constantly mistreats and ... Read More
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