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!@#$%! · 11.24.2018, 11:42 PM

fassbinder’s THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (1978)

i had seen this so long ago and so out of context i did not remember it at all. ok maybe i did not see it at all and i just dreamed it. ive seen veronika voss for sure. i think ive seen lola.

anyway it was great to watch it after all these (years? never?) and see that—this is not a play like other of his previous movies. this is a novel!

and it’s pretty epic in scope, and awesome. it does not hurt that hannah schygulla is hot as fuck in this ha ha ha. but no, greeeeeat story and characters, and i get that this is an allegory of the adenauer era and i don’t get it completely but i get some of it and i loved this film. no, not like la dolce vita, but more than, uh, too many american bullshit films to count.

the shadow of sirk is still there at times but i feel the vocabulary of images has exploded and expanded to match the scope of the story. it was a brilliant job, especially measured against his previous achievements.

sure this is a tragedy but it does not lack its hilarious moments. more of a tragicomedy? something. but that the final scene happened with the background of the 1954 world cup final blasting out the radio (or maybe it was the foreground, depends how you listen) was great and super cackleworthy. puskas! puskas! ha ha ha ha. wow.

brilliant really. i get that it’s somehow “provincial” in scope as it deals specifically with one nation’s politics, so that a lot is lost in translation, and so it misses out on greater universal appeal (la dolce vita im looking at you oh glorious text) but maria, as a character, in her own personal life, and her story, even without the politics, holy fuck, wow. she is great. and yeah she is also the german miracle, and bits of that i’ll have to read about, but at the sheer soap opera level, she is fucking great.

11.24.2018, 11:42 PM	#23127
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,731	fassbinder’s THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (1978) i had seen this so long ago and so out of context i did not remember it at all. ok maybe i did not see it at all and i just dreamed it. ive seen veronika voss for sure. i think ive seen lola. anyway it was great to watch it after all these (years? never?) and see that—this is not a play like other of his previous movies. this is a novel! and it’s pretty epic in scope, and awesome. it does not hurt that hannah schygulla is hot as fuck in this ha ha ha. but no, greeeeeat story and characters, and i get that this is an allegory of the adenauer era and i don’t get it completely but i get some of it and i loved this film. no, not like la dolce vita, but more than, uh, too many american bullshit films to count. the shadow of sirk is still there at times but i feel the vocabulary of images has exploded and expanded to match the scope of the story. it was a brilliant job, especially measured against his previous achievements. sure this is a tragedy but it does not lack its hilarious moments. more of a tragicomedy? something. but that the final scene happened with the background of the 1954 world cup final blasting out the radio (or maybe it was the foreground, depends how you listen) was great and super cackleworthy. puskas! puskas! ha ha ha ha. wow. brilliant really. i get that it’s somehow “provincial” in scope as it deals specifically with one nation’s politics, so that a lot is lost in translation, and so it misses out on greater universal appeal (la dolce vita im looking at you oh glorious text) but maria, as a character, in her own personal life, and her story, even without the politics, holy fuck, wow. she is great. and yeah she is also the german miracle, and bits of that i’ll have to read about, but at the sheer soap opera level, she is fucking great.
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