2023 · drama · biopic · poet
Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey into the Desert
Directed by Margarethe von Trotta1h 50m2023
When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they are already international celebrities of the literary world. In the four years that follow, they dabble in great love and an open relationship between his hometown of Zurich and her adopted Rome.
Our read: Ingeborg Bachmann - Journey into the Desert (2023) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · biopic · poet entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / biopic, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
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