Effi Briest

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MeowMeow M I had to watch the movie in school after having to read the book. Both were a terrible experience. It's not like the source story offered a lot of material for an interesting plot. But even an old-timey drama about a teenage girl who gets married to some middle-aged guy with a noble title could be something that captivates the audience. This movie is not one of those. Between the still camera settings and the seemingly anaemic actors whose lack of energy made me believe that at least one of them would drop any moment, I myself felt growing exhausted in my attempts to not fall asleep and off my stool. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 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 Read all reviews

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