玛利亚·玛丽布罕之死
玛利亚·玛丽布罕之死
又名: The Death of Maria Malibran
导演: Werner Schroeter
编剧: 沃纳·施罗德
主演: Magdalena Montezuma/Christine Kaufmann/Candy Darling/Manuela Riva/Ingrid Caven/Annette Tirier/Einar Hanfstaengl
类型: 剧情/喜剧/歌舞/奇幻
制片国家/地区: 西德
语言: 德语
上映日期: 1972-03-02(西德)
片长: 104 分钟
IMDb链接: tt0067861
剧情简介
This bizarre film by one of the most original directors now working in Germany is hermetic, expressionist, oblique, and of a creative perversity that bespeaks the presence of a genius. Purporting to deal with a real-life 19th century diva 'whose popularity was such that over-exertion led to her death while singing,' the film is actually a grisly series of frozen or tortured tableaux (predominantly lesbian in implication) of heavily rouged, frequently ugly women who, pretending to sing heavy opera, go through contorted, icy attempts at communication that lead nowhere. The lip-sync is off; the singing is off-pitch; mouths are frequently open while no sound issues forth, or closed, with mellifluous arias or cheap popular songs heard on scratchy renditions of old records. Neither burlesque nor slapstick, the film's intent, at least in the beginning, is nevertheless ironical and subversive, though mysteriously so. However, it grows increasingly dark and more threatening, with screams, faces bathed in Vaseline, red, wet mouths, smeared eye shadows, and dehumanized figures. One cannot 'explain' Schroeter's work, other than recognize his debunking of opera as a metaphorical rejection of bourgeois society; but one trembles in recognition of a prospective major talent."
Amos Vogel, Film as a Subversive Art