Stand by · pulling the latest frames
Stand by · pulling the latest frames

This highly stylized, critically acclaimed film from the 70's mixes silent film cards, a soundscape, color, opera music and atmosphere to explore the Freudian truths about men's fear of women that Wedekind powerfully exposed. A kinetic melodrama of the rise of a femme-fatale and her fate at the hands of Jack-the-Ripper. Rethinking Pabst's silent film and Alban Berg's opera.
4.5
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2 votes
Editorial context, craft details, and films that share its DNA.
Norma Leistiko
Norma Leistiko
Countess Geschwitz
4.6Glen or Glenda
1953