Compelling viewing for the delicate way it unfolds and leaves a tingling feeling there's a lot more going on than it seems.
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05/15/06
Effi Briest (1974)
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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:6
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.1/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 20 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Hanna Schygulla stars in this bleak Fassbinder drama as Effi Briest, a tomboyish seventeen-year-old German girl living with her parents. Though simple, Effi still has some social ambition, ambition... [More]
Starring: Hanna Schygulla, Wolfgang Schenck, Ulli Lommel
Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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01/26/06
No review available.
07/07/05
In spite of achieved small-budget period flavor, the film is ponderously top-heavy in its setting up and complication.
06/19/04
One of the finest films to come out of postwar Germany.
07/30/03
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05/24/03
It's visually beguiling -- its cameramen having found shades of gray between black and white I'm not sure I've seen before -- and it is performed by the Fassbinder stock company with the precision and style one seldom finds outside the legitimate theater.
05/20/03
Top CriticThe film demonstrates not only Fassbinder’s usual superb technical control and ability to elicit superbly nuanced performances from his actors, but also an unprecedented affinity for literary adaptation and historical sensitivity.
05/20/03
It's Fassbinder's arm's-length direction that makes Effi Briest come off as cold and detached instead of calculating and sad.
04/06/03
The slow, deliberate pace is sometimes taxing, but this story of a 16-year-old girl locked in the boredom of a loveless marriage is perfectly suited to Fassbinder's stifling mise-en-scene.
01/01/00
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