Malina (1991)

Directed by

Werner Schroeter

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, romance film

Country

Germany, Austria

Runtime

2h 05m

Rated

16

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 37 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman in Vienna navigates a fractured reality where she is caught between a possessive writer named Malina and a destructive lover named Ivan. Her sanity erodes as past trauma and fantasy bleed into her present life.

dreamlikeintenseunsettlingdarkslow-burncerebralclaustrophobichaunting

What happens

Malina is a 1991 German-Austrian avant-garde arthouse surrealist psychological drama film directed by Werner Schroeter. The screenplay was adapted by Elfriede Jelinek from Ingeborg Bachmann's 1971 novel Malina. The film was entered into the 1991 Cannes Film Festival. Starring French actress Isabelle Huppert. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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