The left-handed woman
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The left-handed woman |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 116 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Handke |
| script | Peter Handke |
| production | Wim Wenders |
| music | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| camera | Robby Muller |
| cut | Peter Przygodda |
| occupation | |
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The Left Handed Woman is a German feature film from 1978. It is the directorial debut of the writer Peter Handke . He wrote the script based on his novel of the same name.
action
The film has no dramatic plot in the true sense of film dramaturgy. Marianne has been married to the manager Bruno for ten years and lives with him and son Stefan in Paris when she decides to separate from him for no apparent reason. She leaves her husband and lives alone with her eight-year-old son Stefan. She earns her living in her job as a translator, which she had already practiced before marriage. This turn in their life initially appears as a step towards freedom. But left to her own devices and confronted with the comments of Bruno, Stefan and their friend, the teacher Franziska, she withdraws further and further and in the end stands there completely lonely and completely isolated from the outside world.
Reviews
In 1978, Le Monde enthused: “You get to know a woman, a mythical woman, a woman alone. A wonderful, successful film. ” Le Matin was also full of praise at the time:“ An astonishing vision of Paris that has never existed in French cinema, not even in the days of Renoir . ”
The lexicon of international films said that Peter Handke had "achieved optical opulence through strenuous artistic diligence, but failed to clarify the central idea of his original - the identity crisis of a person as a disease of the time". The Heyne Film Lexicon saw it similarly in 1996: “Beautiful words in beautiful, static images. Otherwise there isn't much going on. "
Awards
The film took part in the competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1978 , but did not receive any awards. In 1978 Peter Przygodda received the German Film Prize in gold for this film together for his editing work on the films The American Friend and The Glass Cell . In 1979 the left-handed woman was awarded the Gilde Film Prize in gold by the German art film theater as the best German film of the year.
Web links
- The left-handed woman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The left-handed woman at filmportal.de
- The left-handed woman on the Handke online platform
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Left-Handed Woman . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2009 (PDF; test number: 49 442 V / DVD / UMD).
- ↑ The left-handed woman. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 25, 2017 .