The Rose King (1986) Der Rosenkönig
The Rose King (1986)
DVDRip | MKV | 720x460 | x264 @ 1800 Kbps | 101 min | 1,42 Gb
Audio: العربية-Deutsch AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs (idx/sub): English, Português, Русский
Genre: Art-house, Drama, Musical
DVDRip | MKV | 720x460 | x264 @ 1800 Kbps | 101 min | 1,42 Gb
Audio: العربية-Deutsch AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs (idx/sub): English, Português, Русский
Genre: Art-house, Drama, Musical
Director: Werner Schroeter
Writers: Magdalena Montezuma, Edgar Allan Poe (poem)
Stars: Magdalena Montezuma, Mostefa Djadjam, Antonio Orlando
Released in English-speaking countries as The Rose King, the German Der Rosenkonig is another of director Wern Schroeter's self-indulgent studies of intense, artistically expressed human passion. The scene is a large Portuguese estate. Still-beauteous widow Magdalene Montezuma lives in empty luxury on the estate with her son. This close familial relationship is shaken up, but ultimately strengthened, by the arrival of a low-born laborer. Director Schroeter unfolds his tale with the slightly surreal logic of a midsummer daydream.
Gloriously berserk example of the unapologetic, floridly symbolic, too-much-is-not-enough Art Film which rarely gets funded any more – one whose opulent grandeur quickly transcends what initially looks like unbearable pretentiousness. What plot there is involves one 'Anna Rahma' (Magdalena Montezuma) a tormented, mentally-unstable, imperious grande dame - spiritual cousin of Norma Desmond and Veronika Voss, perhaps – who moves to a rambling mansion on the Portuguese coast to grow roses with her adult son. But this is mere pretext for a series of intense, operatic reveries – most of them ostentatiously sensual, many of them dangerously skirting the mistreatment of animals without, thankfully, ever crossing the line into actual cruelty. Not for everyone, by any means, but yields multiple, unexpected rewards for the patiently indulgent.
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The Rose King (1986) Der Rosenkönig
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