Lili Marleen
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / war, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →The story of a German singer named Willie, who while working in Switzerland, falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert, whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
Our read · Lili Marleen (1981) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · war · melodrama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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The shape of Lili Marleen
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a stylish Fassbinder melodrama of a singer used by Nazis and torn by love.”
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The reading.
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