Pride: THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT
Schedule
Thu May 16 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
FilmScene (on The Ped Mall) | Iowa City, IA
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Presented through a generous partnership with Iowa City Pride "It is a lucid, beautiful work of innovation which hides its fondness for its characters under a cloak of august formalism."—Penelope Gilliatt, The New Yorker
In the early 1970s, Rainer Werner Fassbinder discovered the American melodramas of Douglas Sirk and was inspired by them to begin working in a new, more intensely emotional register. One of the first and best-loved films of this period in his career is The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, which balances a realistic depiction of tormented romance with staging that remains true to the director’s roots in experimental theater. This unforgettable, unforgiving dissection of the imbalanced relationship between a haughty fashion designer (Margit Carstensen) and a beautiful but icy ingenue (Hanna Schygulla)—based, in a sly gender reversal, on the writer-director’s own desperate obsession with a young actor—is a true Fassbinder affair, featuring exquisitely claustrophobic cinematography by Michael Ballhaus and full-throttle performances by an all-female cast.
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Where is it happening?
FilmScene (on The Ped Mall), 118 E College St, Ste 101,Iowa City,IA,United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
