GERMAN FILM: TICKET OF NO RETURN (1979)

Let's try something new. I post a lot of movies on my other Meetup group, and this one happens to be a German movie. Watching movies in German is another good way to improve your language skills.

I haven't seen this one, but it definitely seems to fall in the WTF category.

Date: Thursday, December 18, 8:00 pm

Venue: Frida Cinema
305 E 4th St #100, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Phone: (714) 285-9422

Dinner 6:30 at 4th St. Market - 201 E 4th St, Santa Ana, CA 9270

Tickets: $13 https://thefridacinema.org/movies/ticket-of-no-return/

Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 100% positive review

Trailer here

Director: Ulrike Ottinger Run Time: 107 min. Release Year: 1979 Language: German

Starring: Lutze, Magdalena Montezuma, Monika von Cube, Orpha Termin, Tabea Blumenschein

"A woman traveling from France to West Berlin drinks a lot of booze."
- Rotten Tomatoes

Our dearly beloved Director Of Operations, Martin, is leaving us at the conclusion of this year, so we wanted to give him a proper send-off by letting him program four of his favorite films. The penultimate film in his series, entitled The Last Dance, is Ulrike Ottinger’s Ticket Of No Return!

This first film in Ulrike Ottinger’s Berlin Trilogy follows an unnamed woman (frequent Ottinger collaborator Tabea Blumenschein) as she drinks her way through Berlin’s various watering holes. Underscoring the scrutiny society applies to “women behaving badly,” with a literal Greek chorus questioning her actions, Ottinger’s film practically predicts the double standard imposed on late 20th-century female artists like Courtney Love.

Premiering at Cannes Critics Week in 1980 and today one of the artist’s most celebrated films, Ticket of No Return proves that “the New German Cinema didn’t live and die with Fassbinder” (Village Voice).