Eine Flexible Frau| Free Film Screening
@ Goethe-Institut Chicago
150 N Michigan Ave, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Thursday, May 15th, from 6PM - 8PM
Details
Dir. Tatjana Turanskyj
Germany, 2010
DVD, 97 min.
Greta M. (Mira Partecke) is 40, in Berlin, unemployed, an architect, a mother, and a drinker. She drifts between job centers, gated communities, call centers and bars through a life that either doesn’t provide for women like her or wants to put them into an efficiency scheme that people like Greta don’t fit into. Instead of an earnest film about women’s issues, wage labor and gentrification, Turanskyj’s protagonist Greta dances, drinks and talks with a levity and subtle wit that is just as atypical of German cinema as director Tatjana Turanskyj always was.
The first in an unfinished trilogy about “women and work,” EINE FLEXIBLE FRAU was followed in 2014 by TOP GIRL ODER LA DEFORMATION PROFESSIONELLE, but there was no third part; Turanskyj passed away before its completion in 2021. In addition to her work as a filmmaker, she was also an author and feminist activist, and she co-founded ProQuote Film (originally: ProQuote Regie), an association that has been promoting gender parity and diversity in film in Germany since 2014.
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