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Effi Briest (1974)

When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted. Starved for companionship, Effi begins a friendship with Major Crampas, a charismatic womanizer.

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Liam P 24 Aug 2009

A literary adaptation unlike any other. Fassbinders wonderful film is fully self aware of it's source text and a films ability to only physically show so much but say all. Action and plot progression is glazed over with voice over or titles cards with words I can only assume are taken directly from the novel. The focus here is not on plot but character development, how the title character goes from an innocent, carefree child to a fallen woman. Fassbinder's camera probes Effi's development by extensively framing her using carefully selected objects amongst the impeccably realised period set design. Shrouded by net curtains or extensively reflected in mirrors, (about a third of the shots we see of Effi are through the reflection of a mirror) the black and white photography is full of subtle yet rich subtext. This film is so visually dense, a book could be writen about the cinematography alone. Another Fassbinder masterpiece.

Max N 22 May 2008

Solo puedo culpar al pobre subititulaje, que no permite disfrutar integramente de los dialogos. El enfoque de esta narracion historico costumbrista es bastante criptico y deja bastante que pensar, pese a la simpleza del argumento. La exquisitez de la puesta en escena sobrecoge a la vista, gracias a unos encuandres alucinantes que juegan con los espejos y los marcos de las puertas para provocar alienacion y encierro. La camara, en riguroso blanco y negro, se mueve de tal manera que cuenta la historia por si sola. Sobresaliente uso de la elipse. Sobran palabras, otra perfecta entrega de Fassbinder. Un deber.

Matty S 28 Sep 2014

Beautifully shot, but it never seems to quite work as well as it should.

Vincent Canby 19 May 2003

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.

Dave Kehr 01 Jan 2000

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.