Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant
In this second film of our Melodrama mini-season we present this 1970’s cult classic where a troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.
Margit Carstensen stars as the film’s eponymous fashion designer, a divorced whiner who falls hopelessly and obsessively in love with one of her models, Karin (Hanna Schygulla). This is dazzling in the brittle brilliance of its execution, the precision of its structure and movement, the total, hermetic self-containment of the tiny world it creates. Rainer Werner Fassbinder's most harshly stylized and perhaps his most significant film, it was a major influence on Francois Ozon’s ‘8 Femmes’. (Subtitles)
West Germany 1972 Rainer Werner Fassbinder 124m
