Peter Handke - The Left-Handed Woman (1978). Bruno Ganz, Gerard Depardieu.

Description: REGION 1-NTSC. German Audio with Optional English Subtitles. You can add the subtitles only from the SUBTITLE button of your remote control. Note: Sometimes like when a train passes by there is a slight noise on the audio. Menus: Subtitles Settings: Scene Selections. No cover. No label. A Plain silver disc in a paper sleeve. Picture Quality: 9.0/10. The Left-Handed Woman (1978)Die linkshändige Frau (original title)Full Screen, Color, 119'. Director: Peter HandkeProduction: Wim Wenders, Road Movies S y n o p s i s A woman living in the Paris suburbs struggles with a loveless marriage and apathy toward her family and friends as she spends her days quietly wandering about her house. Austrian playwright and novelist Peter Handke contributed screenplays to a number of films by director Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire, The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick). Here (in a film that Wenders produced), he provides both the scenario (adapting his novel of the same name ) and direction for this meditative examination of domestic ennui.Peter Handke was best known as a novelist,playwright and screenwriter of many of Wenders' early films(he went on to write "Wings of desire" nine years later)when he made this, his debut feature. Few novelists make the transition to director easily but this film is remarkably assured for a first effort. Edith Clever, the German actress who starred very memorably for Eric Rohmer as "The Marquise of O" plays the housewife who one day announces that she wants a divorce from her husband. No reasons or explanations are ever given; the viewer can only speculate about her state of mind as the film proceeds in a series of beautifully shot, reflective scenes photographed by Wenders' usual cameraman Robby Mueller. The static camera-work and long takes are reminiscent of Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu. I did like when her father visited her --there's a brief interlude where her father shows up and takes a walk with her through a supermarket where he encounters an actor, who's no other than Rudiger Vogler (Wim Wender's THE SCARLET LETTER and KINGS OF THE ROAD) and tells the actor that he feels that's he's not leaving traces of himself in his roles---"you're like an American actor--you just go from role to role without giving an audience any sense of who you are as a person!" he says--"I look forward to seeing you grow up from film to film in the future." Also Gerard Depardieu shows up quite briefly in one nice long shot while the woman is meeting her father at the train station wearing some ironic t-shirt like a modern day hipster-- and then doesn't speak any lines whatsoever. (the least he could've done was be the actor that the father sees in the supermarket but nope!)One of the finest German Films of the 70s.USA BIDDERS SHIPPING $4.63. INTERNATIONAL $21.99.

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