She smiles graciously and agrees, thus establishing the baseline for her story.
The film is clearly a meeting of minds.
At 80, she is going for broke.
Ingeborg Bachmann – Journey Into The Desert
Von Trottas film engages with the world physically.
The writers inward story is thus told by constantly journeying outwards, her intellectual travails translated into tangible experience.
The time line, by contrast, is something of a blur.
So I read later, anyway.
Then were back in Vienna, Zurich or Rome, sometimes for only seconds at a time.
What can I say?
You have to simply stay with it and hope these slices and fragments eventually fall into place.
Which they do, in a kind of crescendo of coalescing emotions.
There wont be a happy ending, but there is a sense of completion.
Who sent these flowers?
Who was on the phone?
Why didnt you mention me?
As he bullies her, Bachmann seems to lose her voice.
She could be any woman an Everywoman finding herself silenced because anything she says will only make it worse.
Ingeborg Bachmann Journey to the Desert is unquestionably a feminist story, filtered through a real life.
It may also be the most perfectly realized film at theBerlinale.
