Effi Briest

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Marit Risto F The old conflict between the lover and the husband. And the problems of the old man, with the young, attractive, woman Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/11/25 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Gave up half way through, definitely not one of Fassbinder's best works. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member Beautifully shot, but it never seems to quite work as well as it should. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member slow burning even for Fassbinder Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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