The Power of Emotion & Serpantine Gallery Program ( Die Macht der Gefühle ) ( Serpentine Gallery Program )

The Power of Emotion & Serpantine Gallery Program (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Die Macht der Gefühle
Alternate Title: Serpentine Gallery Program
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
Chinese ( Subtitles )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Russian ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
212 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1983 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Alexander Kluge

Written By:
Alexander Kluge

Actors:
Hannelore Hoger ..... Frau Bärlamm
Alexandra Kluge ..... Frau Pichota
Edgar M. Böhlke ..... Kammersänger
Klaus Wennemann ..... Richter
Beate Holle ..... Weggeworfene Geliebte
Suzanne von Borsody ..... Prostituierte
Barbara Auer ..... Mäxchen
Uwe Karsten Koch
Daniel Lüönd
Paulus Manker
Erwin Scherschel

Synopsis:

A subtly interconnecting mosaic of staged vignettes, non-fiction footage, archival prints, and found film excerpts, Alexander Kluge's The Power of Emotion is an organic, densely layered meditation on the intangible (and often irrational) essential mechanism of human emotion. At the core of Kluge's exposition is the interrelation between two disparate observations: 1) that objects, in their materiality, are the opposite of emotion; and 2) that emotions, by nature, search for a happy ending. The illogical nature of emotion is wryly illustrated in a chapter entitled The Shot in which a woman, Frau Bärlamm (Hannelore Hoger) testifying at an inquest over the apparent shooting of her husband, trivializes the gravity of her actions as an unmotivated compulsion, thereby frustrating the judges' attempts to find some psychologically motivated, extenuating circumstance that could help thread together the gaping holes in her story and resolve the case. Similarly, the disconnection between logic and emotion ironically plays out in In Her Final Hour..., when the victim, still harboring wounds from a badly ended love affair, refuses to condemn her attacker and unintentional rescuer following her opportunistic violation in the midst of suicide attempt, arguing that the emotional damage she suffered from her lover's rejection inured her from the trauma of the subsequent attack.

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