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'Sheer
Soap opera disguising itself as
By Charles Lieurance
Senior Reporter
Foreign films have never been judged
by the same standards as American
films.
Despite its flippant title, Marga
ret he von Trotta's "Sheer Madness,"
which shows at the Sheldon Film Thea
tre tonight is a melodrama. But it's not
a better melodrama than, say, "Ordi
nary People" or "Agnes of God" just
because it was made in Germany.
Movie Review
Hannah Schygulla plays a monotonal
feminist college professor with a rela
tively unexplained interest in obscure
German women's literature. Schygulla
befriends Ruth, a mentally unstable
art ist who has fallen under t he domina
tion of a hypocritical college professo
ract ivist.
This film seems to say that despite
all the men in the world who are trying
to change from their atavistic and
anachronistic view of women, sexism is
somehow engrained and unavoidable.
The men in this film who are sup
posedly trying to understand women,
wind up denying them all the facility of
free thought. The women, meanwhile,
are mired in the links between insanity
and art, death and sex.
"Sheer Madness" is flawed by its
nihilistic didacticism, its refusal to
give sexism any cause other than
instinct and the monotonality of voice
and acting that seem to be a German
(since Fassbinder) film trademark.
The' acting here is not subtle. It is
dull. The destructive impulses of its
male characters is one-dimensional
and if the fight for malefemale equal
ity is reconcilable, this film is certainly
not a key to that goal.
One major strong point of the film:
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Ma
dness':
Angela Winkler as Ruth. Her presence
is devastating. She is the perfect blend
of sex symbol, artist, feminist, mad-,
ness, compassion and understatement.
If anything sums up the point of this
listless display of self-indulgence and
hopelessness, it is her thinly gaunt,
troubled and beautiful face. She is the
only medium of communication in the
film.
As a film, "Sheer Madness" is immac
ulate and full of energy, most of it mor
bid. The sudden shifts to Ruth's black
and white world of delusions, dreams
and suicides is impeccably done, but
overt ly oblique.
All this aside, there isn't much
excuse for this kind of somnambulistic
pessimism and for a melodramasoap
opera disguising itself as art.
Just because this is a foreign film
being, shown in an art theatre is no
reason to go through its maze of hope
lessness, inverted cliches and ineffi
cient Fassbinder-ish wastefulness. We
know how people stand around saying
nothing. I wonder how it is they speak
and interact.
If this were an American melodrama,
it would be nearly perfect. As art, it
lacks direction and purpose.
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Schygulla (left) and Winkler in 'Sheer
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Tickets are $4 in advance, $5 day of
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Gallery premiers film club
Peter Tooth of the Eleventh Street
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will premier "The Alternative View"
film club this weekend.
' Admission to the films usually is $2
for members, but everyone will be
admitted for that price this weekend.
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Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
Tooth said that this weekend $1 of
each admission price also will buy a
membership. But after Sunday they
must be bought for $1. The member
ship guarantees a $2 admission price to
every film shown by the club, he said.
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