Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.
Acting
Carstensen's volcanic monologues—exhausting, magnetic, unforgettable.
Direction
Fassbinder's suffocating camerawork turns a room into a cage.
Production
That massive Poussin tapestry watching like a judgmental god.
Director
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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