German Movie Screening: Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey into the Desert
When:
Sunday, Sep 17, 2023 11:00a -
1:00p
Sunday, Sep 17, 2023 11:00a -
1:00p
Where:
Coolidge Corner Theater
290 Harvard St
Brookline, Massachusetts 02446
Admission:
$7
Hosted by:
Categories:
Movies
Event website:
https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/sta/bos/ver.cfm?event_id=24940551
New Films from Germany
She is Austrian, he Swiss; she is a poet, he a playwright; she is a daredevil yet vulnerable, he is adventurous but a little conservative. When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they are already international celebrities of the literary world. Their love is passionate, but professional and personal friction begins to disrupt the harmony.
She only realises afterwards that she is suffering, and by how much – with Adolf Opel in the desert, and with Hans Werner Henze in Italy. Margarethe von Trotta interweaves the times before and after the catastrophe. Her direction is frank, sober and elegant. Ronald Zehrfeld as the corpulent, pipe-smoking Frisch and Vicky Krieps are the perfect match. This film is not about Bachmann’s fatal end, but about her hopes for love and respect, in literature, and in life.
Language: German, Italian and French with English Subtitles
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
DCP, 111 min.
Germany 2023
