DeJardinblum
22Sep11
Symbolic tragicomedy/melodrama in four parts: sado-masochism, subversion, boundaries, fascism. Not quite about a 'pathetic, vapid, bourgeois woman'.
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Matt Burgess
21May12
Stark, brutal melodrama about an odd, child-like woman's marriage to a sadist. Fassbinder shreds the genre down to its barest, most hyper stylized level with a sparser use of music and a simpler colour palette than usual, giving its grotesque hysteria an uncomfortable tension.
trolley freak
13Apr12
Fassbinder's film is based on a story by Cornell Woolrich, author of Rear Window, and Hitch himself would have been proud of the torments he inflicts on his leading lady. Margit Carstensen is sublime as the woman who marries a sadist and is slowly stripped of her dignity and freedom. As her husband, Peeping Tom's Karlheinz Bohm is chilling. I expected this to be good but it's much more than that. It's a masterpiece..
T. J. Harman
26Mar12
I'm not saying this is his best film but it's my personal favorite Fassbinder film for personal reasons and preference. Carstensen and Bohm are INCREDIBLE in this film. Any fan of PEEPING TOM should see this film cause as good as Bohm is that, he's even better in this and he's not even the best performance. Cartensen owns. Ballhaus' cinematography is tops.
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Yuki Aditya
29Jan12
one of the funniest films of all time, therefore Germany's funniest film Ive seen, therefore one of Fassbinder's bests.
xuxuxush
18Aug11
A perfect portrayal of the pathetic, vapid bourgeois woman. A beautiful satire of the Martha in us all
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DeedeeAssise
7Jul11
This one will be hard to forget... and to put Franz from Sisi the Empresss as the hangman is purely evil
Mantvydas Mačijauskas
8May11
One of the greatest films of Fassbinder and the favourite of mine from his entire oeuvre. In Martha he fuses together melodramatic devices, which he used to employ in many of his films, elements of horror films and very dark humour. Here Fassbinder is the most perverse and sarcastic in portraying relationships between men and women. The performances of Margit Carstensen and Karlheinz Bohm are fairly brilliant.
