Martha
Martha's (Margit Carstensen) father drops dead, then she's faced with a horrible marriage of abuse and Gaslight-class torture. Fassbinder offers up an extremely bleak work here, even for him, but ultimately the film works mainly as the diatribe against marriage that it is. The rail-thin and ghost-pale Carstensen doesn't really evoke sympathy; she's too freaking scary to make us wish for a happy ending.
Rating
3.0 out of 5 Stars
Buy Martha on DVD from Amazon.com- Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Producer: Peter Märthesheimer
- Screenwriter: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Stars: Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Böhm, Barbara Valentin, Peter Chatel, Gisela Fackeldey
- MPAA Rating: NR
- Year of Release: 1974
- Released on Video: 03/01/2004
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