{"id":525222,"date":"2024-10-15T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=525222"},"modified":"2025-12-04T22:22:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:22:31","slug":"ingeborg-bachmann-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cinema\/films\/ingeborg-bachmann-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Ingeborg Bachmann, the uncultivated couple"},"content":{"rendered":"

The octogenarian director Margarethe von Trotta, figure of the new German cinema, signs a relentless and gripping biopic on the relationship between two other major protagonists of the world of German letters of the XXth century.th<\/sup> century: Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

With Ingeborg Bachmann - From desert to desert<\/em>, After Rosa Luxemburg (1986) and Hannah Arendt (2012), Margarethe von Trotta is once again dedicating a work to a great lady, one of the pioneers of the Frauenfilm<\/em> (a German feminist film movement of the 70s and 80s). Unveiled in 2023 at the Berlinale, the film recounts the brief but intense love affair between the Austrian poet and the Swiss writer. By alternating eras and shattering mirrors, the film uses diffraction to reveal a raw sensibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A stormy, unstable relationship peppered with spikes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After meeting Max Frisch (Ronald Zehrfeld) in Paris in 1958, Ingeborg Bachmann (Vicky Krieps) joins him a few months later in Zurich, in his lakeside apartment. Their married life soon chewed up their idyll, them like two overripe fruits, spoiling each other to the point of withering. A typewriter too noisy, habits too far removed from her own, a daily routine too ataraxic - everything oppresses Ingeborg Bachmann, to the point of stealing her inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n