The Rose King (1986)
A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses. ...
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Magdalena Montezuma is associated with: The Rose King
A mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses. ...
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The final installment in Ulrike Ottinger's Berlin Trilogy (following TICKET OF NO RETURN and FREAK ORLANDO) casts Delphine Seyrig as the nefarious Fritz Lang supervillain Dr. Mabuse, here the head of a powerful media empire that seeks to create headlines b ...
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Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems. ...
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Eva, an upper-class housewife, frustratedly leaves her arrogant husband and decides to enter the call girl business. She lets Yvonne, a prostitute, teach her the basics and both set out for prey together, until Eva starts an affair with Chris, who turns ou ...
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Set in Hamburg's "Hell's Kitchen," a waterfront milieu of gangsters, pimps, dealers and prostitutes, the story follows the attempts of an ex-seaman first to insinuate himself into the scene, and then to extricate himself from it. He becomes a small-time pi ...
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Max Taurus, a sort of amateur detective, pursues the traces of general omni-present crime back to a partially demolished house. There, the remaining tenants try to gain pleasure and power from progressive abandonment in order to tear down their own convent ...
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Five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak" Orlando, a woman played by the late Magdalena Montezuma, who appears in various guises and deformities throughout. ...
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A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital. ...
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Frank, a gay school teacher, has a very active sex life and an interest in making films. One evening, he meets Bernd and they become lovers. But while Bernd is attentive and caring, Frank gets bored and continues his polymorphously perverse ways. ...
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An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train. ...
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A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest of her days as a drunkard. ...
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Werner Schroeter's rhapsody of excess leaps from 1949 Cuba to contemporary France to points in between, while its feverishly shifting visual style evokes and parodies everything from kitschy Mexican telenovelas to silent French art films. ...
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With the ascetic grandeur of Carl Th. Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc, Schroeter evokes the visions of Saint Joan, partly through unused footage of Darling and Caven pantomiming in his 1972 film The Death of Maria Malibran. ...
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A series of tableaux illustrating the life and death of a celebrated 19th century German opera singer. ...
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Film director Jeff and his lead actor are taking their time getting to set. In their absence, the crew lack a purposeful way to spend their time waiting, so they drink heavily. However, as booze is downed and frustration sets in, morale hits rock bottom. ...
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Schroeter's virtuosic staging of the Oscar Wilde tragedy is a complex montage of image and sound, filmed on the grand steps of Baalbeck, the ancient Roman temple in Lebanon, and interweaving Lebanese and German folk songs with the music of Verdi, Wagner, S ...
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Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music – with different approaches to love, suffering, and death. ...
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In a dark and spare theatrical space, four characters use gesture, language, and movement to explore themes of desire and mortality. ...
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Werner Schroeter's stunning split-screen short deals with what the director called "archaic, fundamental themes" of love and mourning. ...
Watch NowA mentally unstable woman and her son move to a sprawling mansion in Portugal to grow roses. ...
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