The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Criterion Collection) (2-DVD)
Sex is the ultimate weapon.
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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 2 hours, 5 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 13, 2015
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Margit Carstensen | |
Performer: | Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla & Eva Mattes | |
Directed by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | |
Edited by | Thea Eymèsz | |
Screenwriting by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | |
Produced by | Rainer Werner Fassbinder & Michael Fengler | |
Director of Photography: | Michael Ballhaus |
Entertainment Reviews:
Like so many films these days, this one turns out to be more interesting when you get away and think about it.
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The Spectator
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's most harshly stylized and perhaps most significant film.
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Chicago Reader
It functions reasonably well as a straightforward, agonized melodrama, but it’s first and foremost a master class -- in the dynamic visual use of a constricted space, and proof that a tiny budget is no excuse. -- Grade: B+
A.V. Club
Rating: 5/5 --
Fassbinder's acute understanding of human desire and pain ensures a strange, haunting tension throughout.
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The Skinny
Fassbinder's style, perfectly shown in this film, is based on a well constructed script in which the splendid dialogue stands out. [Full Review in Spanish]
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El Pais (Spain)
Rating: 10/10 --
You can understand why (Petra Von Kant) is viewed by many as one of Fassbinder's masterpieces. Not bad for ten days' work, anyway.
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Movie Metropolis
The DVD cover tagline is "sex is the ultimate weapon," but of course, it's only about sex at all insofar as it's about the relationship of sex to everything else.
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SpoutBlog
Product Description:
THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT is a scathing chamber piece that could have only sprung from the mind of German cinema's enfant terrible, Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Based on a play by the maniacally prolific writer-director, the film is a hyper-contained tale of obsession and deception. Margit Carstensen plays the titular character, an emotionally unstable fashion designer who becomes obsessed with one of her models, the gorgeous Karin (Hanna Schygulla). What at first appears to be an open and shut case of the powerful dominating the powerless becomes something much more complex as the film builds to its shocking third-act climax.
One of Fassbinder's most widely recognized films, THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT features deeply affecting performances from regular contributors Carstensen (MOTHER KUSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN) and Schygulla (THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN). In adapting his own play for the screen, the devious rebel once again employs his contradictory style, which juxtaposes intense, almost unbearably intimate drama with melodramatic, campy flourishes. The result is an uncomfortable viewing experience, to be sure, but one that tests the boundaries of drama in a way few films ever have.
One of Fassbinder's most widely recognized films, THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT features deeply affecting performances from regular contributors Carstensen (MOTHER KUSTERS GOES TO HEAVEN) and Schygulla (THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN). In adapting his own play for the screen, the devious rebel once again employs his contradictory style, which juxtaposes intense, almost unbearably intimate drama with melodramatic, campy flourishes. The result is an uncomfortable viewing experience, to be sure, but one that tests the boundaries of drama in a way few films ever have.
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