Martha (1974) - Rainer Werner Fassbinder
DVDrip | German | Subtitle: english, french, dutch, spanish, italian | 2h31 | 624 x 468 | PAL (25fps) | XviD | MP3 @ 128kbps | 820 MB
Genre: Drama
DVDrip | German | Subtitle: english, french, dutch, spanish, italian | 2h31 | 624 x 468 | PAL (25fps) | XviD | MP3 @ 128kbps | 820 MB
Genre: Drama
Martha (long unavailable on DVD) proves to be one of Fassbinder's dramatic and visual triumphs.
Martha features a brilliantly stylized performance from star Margit Carstensen and the virtuosic camerawork of Fassbinder's frequent collaborator, Michael Ballhaus. This riveting tale of a sado-masochistic marriage is astonishing in its balance of psychological horror and pitch-black comedy. The questions it asks about its deliriously complex characters prove as fascinating as the ones it ultimately compels us to ask about ourselves.
Moments after her domineering father dies of a heart attack during their vacation in Rome, virginal spinster Martha Heyer (Margit Carstensen) meets the man of her dreams, the cooly self-assured, blond-haired and blue-eyed engineer, Helmut Salomon (Karlheinz Böhm).
Their marriage quickly becomes a thing of terror for Martha when he reveals the extent of his sadism. Martha's life becomes increasingly hysterical, in every sense, until the film's shocking climax.