My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Effi Briest (1974)

Rainer Werner Fassbinder continues to disappoint me.  After watching Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (made the same year this was made) I really believed I had stumbled upon the next great director whose work I could start to explore and yet I am now starting to think I was wrong.  This film, based on the novel of the same name, tells the story of a spoiled girl who is married to a Baron and how she must find her own strength.  Ultimately it's a really borning movie.  It's not all bad but it's so hard to keep awake to notice the good.  She has an affair and a child.  Tragic and too long to care.   Grade: C
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