Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Starring Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann, Hanna Schygulla

A celebrated fashion designer plunges into desperate isolation when the object of her affections, a beautiful yet flighty ingenue, fails to return her devotion. A gender-flipped and painfully vulnerable autobiographical tale, born of Fassbinder’s adoration of Hollywood melodrama, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant displaces the artist from the spotlight and sequesters them in a prison of their own obsession.

This screening will be introduced by Dr Richard Millington, Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Chester.