Les Larmes amères de Petra von Kant

Original title: Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant

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7.5/10

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Margit Carstensen and Hanna Schygulla in Les Larmes amères de Petra von Kant (1972)

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Psychological Drama Drama Romance

A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.A troubled fashion designer strikes up a romance with a much younger woman.

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7.5/10

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Awards
- 3 wins & 3 nominations total

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Trivia
Rainer Werner Fassbinder wrote the entire screenplay for the film by hand during a single 12-hour flight from Berlin to Los Angeles.

Quotes
Petra von Kant: I think people need each other, they're made that way. But they haven't learnt how to live together.

Crazy credits
Follows Opening Film Title: "Gewidmet dem, der hier Marlene wurde (Dedicated to the one who became Marlene here)."

Connections
Featured in Fassbinder in Hollywood (2002)

Soundtracks
The Great Pretender
Written by Buck Ram
Performed by The Platters

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Featured review

7/10

German Emotions

Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.

Criterion has released the film and calls to our attention the "claustrophobic cinematography". Indeed, how can it be anything other than claustrophobic when we never leave the room? Much of the two hours takes place in a bed, with little beyond. This is quite a minimalism, and suggests the film is based on a stage play.

Fassbinder is known for his modern German interpretations of Douglas Sirk. This is one of his Sirk-inspired works. Maybe not his best, though that is all in the eye of the beholder. A second viewing may change my opinion on the matter.