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X, a harsh, pitiless beauty, the cruel uncrowned ruler of
the China Sea, launches an appeal to all women willing to
exchange their comfortable and secure but unbearably dull
lives for a world of dangers and uncertainties, but full of
love and adventure. Women of the most diverse nationalities
and walks of life respond to her call. All of their accumulated
discontent unites to form a powerful whole, and they sail
off with a favorable wind.excerpt from the script Clippings What makes the film disturbing is that women willingly succumb to the fascination of rituals of power and - in men's imagination - abandon the territory of innocence and the presumption of women's moral superiority, rejecting the gentleness of other women's films, which, like Agnès Varda's last work, promise 'love without cares'. This film shows not a trace of fearfulness. On the contrary, it is calculated to evoke fear in those who put up resistance against the fascination of this ritualized and totally aestheticized power. Karsten Witte, Die Zeit More clippings in German language. |
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Premiere: Steirischer Herbst 1977, Graz Festivals: Filmfestival Rotterdam 1978 Filmfestival Berlin, International Forum 1978 Filmfestival Edinburgh 1978 Locarno 1978 Aperto 80, Biennale di Venezia Festivals in New Delhi San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago etc. Distribution: Freunde der Deutschen Kinemathek e.V. Potsdamer Str. 2 10785 Berlin Germany Contact: Karl Winter fon +49-30-269 55 150 fax +49-30-269 55 111 verleih@fdk-berlin.de www.fdk-berlin.de for Northamerica: Women Make Movies 462 Broadway 5th Floor New York, NY 10013 USA fon +1-212-925-0606 fax +1-212-925-2052 info@wmm.com www.wmm.com Sales: Available at Ulrike Ottinger Filmproduction Fichtestraße 34 D-10967 Berlin fon +49-30-692 93 94 fax +49-30-691 33 30 office@ulrikeottinger.com All available Films on VHS or DVD |
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