Frauen in New York / Women in New York / Rainer Werner Fassbinder / 1977

A film version of a play Fassbinder directed in Hamburg, Clare Booth Luce’s “The Women“. It gave Fassbinder an opportunity to indulge his passion for working with women - there are forty women in the play and no men. The play dates from the 1930s, and Fassbinder was accused by the critics of being anti-women (a frequent criticism of late). As usual, he chose to work “against“ the text, and from this has constructed an entertaining and engaging play about love between upper-class women with nothing better to do than sneer at others when things go wrong with their lives and loves. =wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_ttl?_encoding=UTF8&colid=266FAA97L8OM8&coliid=IWA3HMMG19905