Posted on 02/19/2018 2:25:14 PM PST by nickcarraway
The star of 'The Marriage of Maria Braun' and 'Lilli Marleen' says the anti-harassment movement has led to "people touching each other less” and recalls being slapped by director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Iconic German actress Hanna Schygulla (The Marriage of Maria Braun, Lilli Marleen) has become the latest prominent figure to push back against the #MeToo movement.
Schygulla revealed that she herself had been the victim of violence while shooting a movie with late German director Rainer Werner Fassbinder, but appeared to side with #MeToo critics.
“When I started making films, Fassbinder slapped me in the face and said I had to take it,” the 74-year-old actress said Sunday at the Berlin International Film Festival, where she is appearing in the competition film The Prayer from French director Cedric Kahn. “I know that there is a taboo about this kind of thing now. But there is a problem these days that people are touching each other less.”
Schygulla's comments follow those from European film notables, including French star Catherine Deneuve and Oscar-winning Austrian director Michael Haneke, who have voiced worries about #MeToo heralding a new era of intolerance and puritanism. Deneuve was among 100 women from entertainment, academia, the arts and media in France who signed an editorial in the French newspaper Le Monde, criticizing the #MeToo movement for supposedly restricting sexual freedom.
The #MeToo debate has dominated discussion at this year's Berlinale. Festival organizers expressed support for the movement, but they set off an online backlash by inviting South Korean director Kim Ki-duk, who has been accused of slapping an actress on one of his sets and forcing her to perform unscripted nude sex scenes. A South Korean court fined Kim for assault but dropped a sexual abuse charge, citing lack of evidence. Kim on Friday presented his latest film, the graphically violent Human, Space, Time and Human, which is screening in Berlin's Panorama sidebar.
By "people" she means "coworkers," and I don't see that as a problem.
American women, for the most part, are untouchable skanks. They’ve been fed decades of horse excrement about how much more important they are than anyone else, and that of course is what #MeToo is really about. Enjoy your cats, spinsters.
I agree. I think it’s better. But, I am from the U.S. Europeans seem to have different views.
Well, they can keep them. Personally, I have no respect for people who have an extinction birthrate but call me "anti-sex."
We get that you hate women, but it can't be both.
Good actress, beautiful too. I’m glad the oily Fassbinder croaked so that she could actually go on and work with good directors.
Wow. You guys are multiplying around here like cockroaches.
I think she resembles Hillary Clinton, especially now that she’s in her 70s.
Great shot! Some of these guys aren’t very bright.
They call us puritans, but don’t take responsibility for two World Wars.
it really is alarming. the misogynist impulse at FR isn’t even trying to disguise itself any more.
She was very popular in German and French films in the 70s; she was Fassbinder’s protege. They don’t get the facelifts like American actresses do. But I’ll take a look; I haven’t seen her in years.
Well, if the mods ignore it, this is the result. They took down one posting yesterday but not until it went over 300 posts.
I don’t know that their personal morals caused the World Wars, but Europe has about given up the ghost now. They won’t even have Bollywood.
“untouchable skanks”
Which came first...untouchable then skanks or vice versa?
Well, if the mods ignore it, this is the result. They took down one posting yesterday but not until it went over 300 posts.
Was it the post, or the replies?
Both.
Same facial shape as Hillary, in my opinion. I see the director in question is “Fassbinder,” while the current movie star - quite handsome - is “Fassbender.”
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