Effi Briest

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Marit Risto F Jan 11 The old conflict between the lover and the husband. And the problems of the old man, with the young, attractive, woman See more 01/16/2017 Young Effi Briest marries an older man and moves to a small town. It's not a particular happy marriage, and she forms a close friendship with an associate of her husband Major Crampus. Years later, after moving to Berlin, letters surface that lead her husband to believe that there was an illicit affair between them. A fairly deliberately confounding film, even for Fassbinder. It's told in a fairly oblique style with several key scenes happening off screen, and is interspersed with narration, on screen captions and a lot of novelistic devices. It's a long film that consists mainly of sets of characters talking in carefully arranged, static shots. Most of these conversations don't really drive the plot. That may sound like I disliked the film, but I was really quite taken with it. See more 05/22/2016 Gave up half way through, definitely not one of Fassbinder's best works. See more 09/29/2014 Beautifully shot, but it never seems to quite work as well as it should. See more 07/26/2014 Une pure merveille de Fassbinder filme de main de maitre et avec une direction photo impressionnante -des noirs, blancs et gris comme ça je ne connaissait que Le Ruban Blanc. Voici un classique dont l'univers impitoyable se marie bien avec celui du realisateur. See more 06/30/2013 slow burning even for Fassbinder See more Read all reviews

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