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      I Am the Other Woman

      2006 1h 44m Mystery & Thriller Drama List
      Reviews 0% 50+ Ratings Audience Score A civil engineer (August Diehl) obsesses over a woman (Katja Riemann) who has multiple personality disorder. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member “Ich Bin die Andere” (“I am the Other Woman”) by Margarethe von Trotta (2006) Why the heroine of the film Carolin does resist her love for the sensitive and passionate young man, Robert, whom mere physical closeness to her can put into erotic trembling and who can risk near everything in order to be with her? This is the question von Trotta puts in front of the viewers. Indeed, why does Carolin try to avoid love? – Is it for the sake of loyalty to her father, a charismatic old man? Because of her childhood traumas and the personal complexes they trigger? Help to answer these questions comes from von Trotta indirectly – through the very form of the film: she composes it as a kaleidoscope of hero’s dreams of a pleasant, intriguing, prosperous and permanently renewed reality. More exactly, Robert’s dreams are not personal at all but quite standard and commercial, like ads, a tourist kind of dreams about being in the center of comfortably enveloping reality as collage of segments as if privatized for personal pleasures - standard hotels, restaurants, lobbies and tourist locations, enigmatic encounters, mysterious women. Robert‘s dreams are like today’s life of the upper middle class inhabitants of the West when reality of political clashes and existential dilemmas has disappeared and what is left is our sentimental sensitivity inflamed by commercial cinema. With “Ich Bin…” Von Trotta has joined other exceptional film-directors in the criticism of today’s mass-cultural sensibility – Liliana Cavani in “Beyond Obsession” (1982), Helma Sanders-Brahms in “Future of Emily” (1985) and Alain Tanner in “A Flame in my Heart” (1987). In her film she underlines the contrast between unreal values (including amorous sex and addiction to luxury) seductively imposed by commercial civilization, and a genuine reality we can barely discern through our nostalgic memories of a generalized authentic past. In “Ich Bin…” what from the first glance looks like a fight between adulthood (Carolin and Robert’s love) and her childhood fixations becomes a fight between taste for genuine experiences nurtured in Carolin by her father [although a person with authoritarian air] and the childlike frivolous imaginary inside all of us projected into our souls by the artificial conditions of our life. The Father is not always a “demonic” figure in our unconscious – asserts von Trotta’s film. In comparison with today’s frivolous and obsessive life style some old fathers deserve to win. Please, visit: www.actingoutpolitics.com to read about films by Godard, Bergman, Bunuel, Kurosawa, Resnais, Pasolini, Bresson, Bertolucci, Fassbinder, Alain Tanner and Liliana Cavani (with analysis of shots from films). By Victor Enyutin Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Audience Member Weird story-telling from a metaphysical thriller in the upper half to a James Bond kinda narrative at the end. Katja Riemann is brilliant anyway. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member Weird story-telling from a metaphysical thriller in the upper half to a James Bond kinda narrative at the end. Katja Riemann is brilliant anyway. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald It's hard to take I am the Other Woman seriously, but the movie's unintentional humor and peculiar view of sex provide another form of different entertainment altogether. Mar 8, 2007 Full Review Leslie Felperin Variety Maybe Fassbinder himself could have made something of this script, although it seems on the face of it more suited to Ken Russell. Sep 18, 2006 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis A civil engineer (August Diehl) obsesses over a woman (Katja Riemann) who has multiple personality disorder.
      Director
      Margarethe von Trotta
      Producer
      Manfred Thurau
      Screenwriter
      Peter Märthesheimer, Pea Fröhlich
      Production Co
      Clasart Film- und Fernsehproduktion
      Genre
      Mystery & Thriller, Drama
      Original Language
      German
      Runtime
      1h 44m
      Sound Mix
      Dolby Digital