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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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Rasma L 13 Feb 2008

A Rainer Werner Fassbinder must see. A film that attempts to catch the spirit and mood of the novel by Theodor Fontane, published in 1894. Filmed in black and white with long sequences, this movie has nothing in common with the popular movie versions of the novels of Jane Austen. Very much like Brecht theater, Fassbinder is not going for identification but alienation, or Verfremdung. Not feeling with the protagonists, but making us think about the problematic codes of society in the late 19th century is what the film goes for. Not for the easily bored or with short attention span.

Richard D 16 Jan 2017

Young Effi Briest marries an older man and moves to a small town. It's not a particular happy marriage, and she forms a close friendship with an associate of her husband Major Crampus. Years later, after moving to Berlin, letters surface that lead her husband to believe that there was an illicit affair between them. A fairly deliberately confounding film, even for Fassbinder. It's told in a fairly oblique style with several key scenes happening off screen, and is interspersed with narration, on screen captions and a lot of novelistic devices. It's a long film that consists mainly of sets of characters talking in carefully arranged, static shots. Most of these conversations don't really drive the plot. That may sound like I disliked the film, but I was really quite taken with it.

Thomas S 01 Jul 2008

One of the best, most sensitive attempts to create a movie from a great novel.

Steve B 25 Jul 2014

Une pure merveille de Fassbinder filme de main de maitre et avec une direction photo impressionnante -des noirs, blancs et gris comme Ã§a je ne connaissait que Le Ruban Blanc. Voici un classique dont l'univers impitoyable se marie bien avec celui du realisateur.

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.