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Plot

In this movie, a woman is going mad, literally, with frustration. Based on a novel by Ingeborg Bachmann, Isabelle Huppert plays the distraught woman who feels that the choice between her uninspiring husband and her indifferent lover warrants ever-escalating displays of rage, distress and loss of self-control. Eventually her self-indulgence leads to her setting her now-demolished Viennese apartment on fire and burning herself alive in it while the movie score plays songs from grand opera to celebrate her dramatic departure from life.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama
Run Time:
125min.
Director(s):
Werner Schroeter
Starring:
Isabelle Huppert , Mathieu Carrière , Can Togay , Fritz Schediwy , Isolde Barth
Themes:
Infidelity,Self-Destructive Romance,Writer's Life,Mental Illness
Tone:
Downbeat,Grim,Moody,Visceral
Language:
German