‘Journey to the Desert’ (2023)
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
Cast: Vicky Krieps, Ronald Zehrfeld, Tobias Samuel Resch
Premiere: 1/19/24
Punctuation: * * *
Although the desert is extremely important in the exciting journey of the Austrian writer and poet, the protagonist of the film, Ingeborg BachmanThe most interesting part of the movie Margarethe von Trotta It takes place in urban areas of Rome, Paris, Zurich, Vienna and Berlin. This fundamental author of Germanic literature is considered alone and is based on her relationships with three men. playwright and novelist Max Frisch, playwright and filmmaker Adolf Opel and composer Hans Werner Henze. The director balances personal experiences with a strong artistic foundation that unites and separates the characters.
While on a bridge over the River Seine, Ingeborg reads Apollinaire, translates the poems of the master Giuseppe Ungaretti into German, or engages in dreamlike dialogues with Henze while writing the music and lyrics of ‘The Prince of Homburg’. But this isn’t a movie about art, it’s a movie about art. the hardships of life and love relationships. It’s true that the desert scenes where Ingeborg escapes – excellent as always, Vicky Krieps – feel a bit artificial, and there are some creaky moments, such as the scene where she sleeps with Adolf and two Egyptian teenagers. shout after He took his revenge on all the bourgeois he was with. But overall, it is a film that captures very well the cracks of a character in search of balance.