Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant (Die bitteren Tranen der Petra von Kant)

  • 2hr 4m
  • 73

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Director:

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Producer:

Michael Fengler

Release Date:

Jan 1, 1972

Runtime:

2hr 4m

Synopsis

A successful fashion designer abandons a sado-masochistic relationship with her female assistant in favor of a love affair with a beautiful young woman.

Cast

  • Margit Carstensen
  • Hanna Schygulla
  • Katrin Schaake
  • Eva Mattes
  • Gisela Fackeldey
  • Irm Hermann

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75

A lesbian love triangle becomes a schema of sexual power plays in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most harshly stylized and perhaps most significant film.

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Metacritic review by Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
88

Bitter Tears offers a sensory feast that’s expanded on by the elaborate dialogue, which is poetic even as translated into English, and by the astonishingly sensual and fluid movements of the actors and the camera.

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Metacritic review by Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine
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