![]() ![]() I would say that that character is a cliché if I didn't know so many people exactly like her! Irm Herrmann plays the sister-in-law, and Adrian Hoven plays a pharmacist with whom Carstensen begins an affair after her prescription for Valium runs out. The nosy mother-in-law is played by Brigitte Mira, looking really ugly after making me cry in Fear Eats the Soul, made the previous year. I noticed early in the film that he never touches his wife, and later in the film his mother complains that it is abnormal the way the mother hugs and kisses her children. He cares for his wife, but probably not in the way she needs. But I really felt that Fassbinder and Carstensen captured something remarkable here. It's a small and subtle picture (made for television, actually), and I wonder if anyone else would be as impressed as I was. ![]() And his lead actress, Margit Carstensen, gives an absolutely brilliant performance. But what a difference a genius can make, and Fassbinder is clearly a genius. Really, the plot is nothing different than your average movie on the Lifetime cable network: a woman suffers from post-partem depression while no one around her seems to care much eventually, she becomes addicted to Valium and alcohol. Reviewed by zetes 9 / 10 An unknown gem by Fassbinder, one of his best works ![]()
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