Acerbic black satire of a bourgeois marriage.
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05/23/06
Martha (1973)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:5
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.7/10
Synopsis: Rainer Werner Fassbinder's MARTHA presents a case study in abuse, terror, and victimhood in the form of its main character, the aging spinster Martha (Margit Carstensen). Suffering a constant... [More]
Starring: Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Valentin, Peter Chatel
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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02/09/06
You don't have to agree with its premise -- that middle-class marriage equals sadomasochism -- to respond to the bravura comic glee with which the director lays it out.
01/15/05
Top CriticFassbinder offers up an extremely bleak work here, even for him, but ultimately the film works mainly as the diatribe against marriage that it is.
12/09/04
The ornate sets and colorful camerawork only belie the disturbed nature of this truly sick film.
06/14/04
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09/03/03
A horrific black comedy -- a devastating view of bourgeois marriage rendered in a delirious baroque style.
09/03/03
Top CriticEasily the most twisted film of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s career, Martha (a favorite of his frequent cinematographer Michael Ballhaus) catalogs the tyrannical hold a bourgeois husband has over his wife.
09/02/03
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