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JOAN OF ARC OF MONGOLIA by Ulrike Ottinger

Created by Audrey Cruz-Mermy (See other events)
  • Oct 11, 2009 from 3:30pm to 6:00pm
  • Location: Anthology Film Archive
  • Latest Activity: Aug 21, 2019
1989, 165 minutes, 35mm. In German with English subtitles. With Delphine Seyrig and Irm Hermann.“[Delphine Seyrig is] a cultivated lady anthropologist traveling on the Trans-Siberian railroad, where her companions include a renowned Yiddish tenor (Micky Katz), a German schoolteacher (Fassbinder regular Irm Hermann), a campy all-girl klezmer trio, and a young girl in search of adventure. When, mid-steppe, the train is halted by Mongolian tribeswomen on ponies who kidnap the female passengers, the journey assumes a new dimension. Visually splendid and emotionally resonant, with knock-out musical numbers, this is both a lesbian epic and a love story between a filmmaker and her medium.” –Leslie Camhi, VILLAGE VOICEDir. Ulrike Ottinger (1989). Way too long and just short of fabulous, Ulrike Ottinger’s central Asian extravaganza is still a one-of-a-kind vision—as steeped in campy exotica and excessive mise-en-scene as early ‘30s Sternberg.THE VOICE
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