- 佩特拉(玛吉特·卡斯滕森 Margit Carstensen 饰)是一位小有名气的女画家,和丈夫结婚多年,两人养育了一个女儿。然而,随着时间的推移,佩特拉发现自己越来越看不起虚伪冷漠的丈夫,不自由的婚姻生活令她感到窒息,于是,她选择了离婚 经朋友西朵妮(Katrin Schaake 饰)的介绍,佩特拉结识了名为卡琳(汉娜·许古拉 Hanna Schygulla 饰)的美国女子,趣味相投的两人很快就彼此吸引,开始了她们的同居生活。佩特拉供养着卡琳,并且积极地将她引入时装模特的行列,然而,卡琳却将佩特拉的爱意视为束缚,最终她选择了离开。失去了卡琳,佩特拉的生活陷入一片混乱,渐渐走向崩溃的边缘。
- 1907年圣诞,艾柯达家族两代人共享圣诞晚宴,其乐融融。可好景不长,小主人公亚历山大(伯特·格福Bertil Guve饰)和芬妮(妮拉·艾尔温Pernilla Allwin饰)的父亲奥斯卡(艾伦·艾德沃 Allan Edwall饰)在排练《哈姆雷特》时突然中风,弥留之际把苦心经营的大剧院托付给妻子艾米莉(艾娃·弗洛灵 Ewa Froling饰)。一年后艾米莉带着一双儿女改嫁冷酷残暴的青年主教爱德华。爱德华的母亲和姐姐专横刻薄,亚历山大与继父的矛盾日益尖锐,却只能默默忍受。当老祖母海伦娜(古娜·沃根Gunn Wallgren饰)得知此事后,暗中请老友帮忙,终让孩子们重获自由。艾米莉也逃离了主教家,从此一家人再次团聚享受着天伦之乐。 本片获得第56届奥斯卡最佳摄影、最佳艺术指导、最佳服装设计和最佳外语片等多项大奖。
- 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.