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.
I suppose one would have to be there.
Ah, she got old! I hate to see that but that’s life.
She was in one of my favorite movies, The Night of Varennes, in which she played Marie Antoinette’s lady in waiting on the night they escaped Versailles. She wore this gorgeous picture hat and oh, my, was she lovely.
That sounds very enjoyable. I love a costume drama with a lot of emphasis on the costumes.
Fassbinder was part of the German New Wave along with Werner Herzog. Fassbinder croaked of AIDs years ago. Slimy character.
They tend not to like women very much, see Quentin Tarantino.
Fassbinder made her a star. I never liked his movies, though.
You are exactly right!
I used to pause at a revolving door and wait for an approaching woman. I used to put my arm around a female good friend in group pictures. I used to say “yes maam” to all women, now I reserve that for women I know well. I used to make a big deal of opening doors for women on dates. I used to ALWAYS pick up the tab on a date. I’ve hired hundreds of people in my life and used to hire attractive ones.....now, I won’t even interview them.....you must be “frumpy” (trying to be nice) to work for me. I use to take women to business meetings so they could better understand our project of the moment.
I could go on and on and on.
nickedknack! Your damn right the world has changed on American women and the NET loss for them as a class of people is bound to be painful for the few smart enough to count their losses. And, I do know MANY women that agree with what I am saying.
Fassbinder was a brutal filmmaker. So is Haneke. Probably the most bearable of Haneke’s films is CODE INCONNU. It examined the multicultural world of Europe years before the migrant invasion, but was foretelling of its coming.
Sexual harassment is merely lawyers acting akin to pimps and pornographer; i.e., cashing in on a woman’s bpdy — except the pimps and pornographers are less sanctimonious about it.
She is not wrong, but its just delightful to watch the left devour itself in their inherent contradictions.
We at FR have no dog in this fight just sit back and enjoy.
And this German actress is correct, too. This me too stuff is garbage. These Hollywiod skanks are high priced call girls. The really heroic women are in Iran and they are getting beaten or worse for throwing off their loathsome hijabs/
You wanna translate that into English?
Yes, I have gone on business trips with my boss or his immediate underling. All were impecable in terms of manner and demeanor. I could not have asked for better companions. I am grateful.
I think every single undruged woman could have screamed, kicked in the knackers, on the arch of the foot with their heels,...all the drugged one should have reset the visit...they just weren’t careful enough.
One time I was asked to drive an inebriated boss home and he got much too familiar and I told him “It doesn’t matter to me but do you want to die in a head on crash or against an overpass support?” and then I aimed the car. Amazing response! Also amazing how quickly he sobered up!
butt, butt, butt....
All the people who are killed by serial killers and terrorists just weren’t careful enough, too.
While regular callgirs receive their pay for sex in money; these Hollywood starlets receive their callgirl pay in Hollywood movies.
I can only imagine the stories both Marlena Dietrich and Hedy Lamarr would have been able to tell. I have already read bios of Ingrid Bergman. All three, very bright, very much headstrong. Three very different kinds of beauty.
And like unshowered uncircumcised smokers who don’t work out and pee all over the street are really sexier than our clean good looking American guys with actual senses of humor.
Substitute the words “Similar” for Akin
and “Pretentious” for Sanctimonious.
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