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The Film Library has programmed an extensive retrospective, made up of 26 films, about the German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982), in collaboration with Donostia Kultura , the Basque Film Library and the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation.Fassbinder is considered one of the most lucid and incisive authors of the so-called new cinemas that emerged in Europe in the early seventies. This cycle offers the possibility of discovering or revisiting films that frequently revolve around power relations and sexual and class discrimination.
According to critic Carlos Losilla , “Fassbinder mixed modernity and classicism through an unclassifiable, inimitable style, halfway between a provocative Country Email List vulgarity in the treatment of themes and a subtle elegance in the staging. ”According to Losilla, “ the different forms of sexuality, the horrible legacy of Nazism, the declassed and the marginalized thus became the protagonists of an enormous work, of a great social fresco that was dedicated to narrating their time through very varied generic forms.
The series begins tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. with the screening of one of his best-known films: The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978), starring Hanna Schygulla . It is a fable of war, loneliness, misery, struggle and prosperity around a female protagonist, strong, tenacious, ambitious and intelligent, who in a certain way embodies the history of Germany between the years of war, the post-war period and the subsequent economic recoveryDuring the month of October , La Filmoteca will screen three of his first feature films, all three starring his favorite actress, Hanna Schygulla: Love is Colder than Death (1969), The Plague Gods (1970) and Katzemache.
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