Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant

1972 [GERMAN]

Drama / Romance

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 85% · 34 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 85% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 12611 12.6K

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Plot summary

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.

Director

Rainer Werner Fassbinder Photo
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Top cast

Hanna Schygulla Photo
Hanna Schygulla as Karin Thimm
Eva Mattes Photo
Eva Mattes as Gabriele von Kant
Irm Hermann Photo
Irm Hermann as Marlene
Margit Carstensen Photo
Margit Carstensen as Petra von Kant
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1.12 GB
1036*720
German 2.0
Not Rated
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23.976 fps
2 hr 4 min
Seeds 7
2.08 GB
1472*1024
German 2.0
Not Rated
Subtitles de  
23.976 fps
2 hr 4 min
Seeds 14

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by CinemaSerf 6 / 10

Nope, this is another film about which I

Nope, this is another film about which I didn't get the memo. Though Margit Carstensen performs addictively in the title role, the rest of this quickly descends into a rather tedious introspection of a sexually fluid woman who treats her secretary "Marlene" (Irm Hermann) appallingly at the best of times and even worse when attractive, aspiring and ambitious model "Karin" (Hanna Schygulla) arrives seeking a career - and maybe more. "Petra" falls for her: hook line and sinker, but her new paramour doesn't quite reciprocate. The torrid nature of their frequently gin-soaked on/off relationship and conversation now unfold in the static environment of her apartment with a great deal of verbiage and very little actual procress. It's not that it's slow burn - I can handle them. It's that she is dull. She exudes a sense of entitlement and arrogance that I just couldn't engage with. Of course that's testament to the acting to an extent, but I also think there's something of the emperor's new clothes to it all. Who cares about her or her life? Everything around her is disposable - except "Karin", whose repeated attempts to shock and hurt her lover might have worked in their bed, but they didn't work on me as I gradually wanted to brick them all in with a lifelong supply of Bombay Sapphire and let them grind each other to a powder. The film looks great, the costumier and set designer have conjured up a thing of beauty and style, but that can't really help this rather empty and depressing appraisal of people who, "Marlene" and possibly daughter "Gabriele" (Eva Mattes) notwithstanding, entirely deserved each other. I suspect this might have worked better with the intimacy of a stage - indeed much of Fassbinder's direction appears much better suited for that perfectly framed medium, but as a film it left me cold.
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Reviewed by gavin6942 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.

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