The Merchant of Four Seasons

Posted 17 July 2007 in Screening log

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[Händler der vier Jahreszeiten]

1972 - Germany

Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Starring
Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla

This is what Olmi would be stripped of his romance! Our poor brow-beaten, brute of a barrow-boy stumbles through a life of innocent mistakes and broken dreams, brought low by his nagging mother, second-best wife and social constraints. All very exaggerated and theatrical, produced back-to-back with Petra Von Kant (how I wish for a true male companion piece to Petra!). One of my favorite Schygulla performances in a supporting role as a sort of voice of morality or reason.

 

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