Malina (1991)
Director:
Werner Schroeter
Writers:
Ingeborg Bachmann (novel)
Elfriede Jelinek (writer)
Genre:
Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
Awards:
6 wins & 1 nomination
Isabelle Huppert ... The Woman
Mathieu Carrière ... Malina
A thrilling performance by Isabelle Huppert of a dual personality. Malina, the key character of this psychological enigma, is the strong rational part of a fragile personality, which splits also in a passionate female character, played by Isabelle Huppert, both actually symbolic figures of a single personality. The story describes, in a thrilling performance of the dual actors, a disastrous love affair, where love substitutes the reason of being and in spacial reflections of her childhood and parents, unfolds the puzzle of authenticitation in a passionate relationship. Symbolic behavioral patterns are the driving elements of this movie by a german director, but in perfect line with classic French movies, e.g. by Claude Chabrol.
Werner Schroeter - Malina (1990) (FFpostedby) (fre.vo.eng.subs).avi 
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